Robert Alexander MCLEOD

• Birth: 1851, Miramichi,,New Brunswick,Canada
• Death: 1920, Kaihu,,,New Zealand

• Marriage: 1886

1. Cora MCLEOD
2. Owen MCLEOD
3. Wallace MCLEOD
4. Margery MCLEOD
5. Morna MCLEOD

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                  _William MCLEOD ____|
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 _Isaac MCLEOD __|
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|--Robert Alexander MCLEOD 
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|                 _Phillip BRIMNER ___|
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|_Janet BRIMNER _|
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                 |_Catherine MURDOCH _|
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Notes

Frank Grey, HISTORY OF THE MCLEODS OF HELENSVILLE, (1962), p. 26.

Young Bob McLEod set sail in the schooner 'Sea Gull' when he was about ten years old. As a youth and young man Bob took part in the many enterprises of the McLeod family. He had received very little theoretical education, but he had the enterprise to educate himself. He had an inventive turn of mind and with high hopes patented devices. Bob rarely left North Auckland. In addition to working out kauri bushes he built many timber mills, dams to store water for driving logs down creeks, and in his later days, bridges. The old wooden Tangiteroria Bridge, the best of his work, built across the Northern Wairoa River on the road between Dargaville and Whangarei lasted for over fifty years because of the good workmanship and material put into it. There was very little that Bob ould not tackle in the way of building. HE had a reputation for being remarkable quick in the erection of cottages, doing all the brickwork and plumbing in a most workmanlike manner. He was also expert at estimating the timber measurements of standing forests, a very valuable source of income when other work was not offering. As a farmer, however, his activities were of the rough and ready kind. At the age of 34, Bob married Miss Mary Agnes Griffiths, a member of another old pioneering family who came from England in a wiindjammer. They had five children, the daughters all marrying, the sons never. They were Cora (Mrs. Harvey), Owen, Wallace (deceased), Margery (Mrs. Duncan, deceased) and Morna (Mrs. Hopkins). For a time about 1894 the family lived in the bush in the Waitakere Ranges. The children had a great admiration for their father who proved to be a good provider and who was always known as being rigorously honest. Still retaining his love for the wild bush and the smell of the kauri forest, Bob died at Kaihu when he was 69 years old.