Dear Gary, John Leask was born on 15 November 1820 and not on 15 November 1821 as is reported here [Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, index, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQQG-7TR His baptism was the subject of a late entry at Sandwick parish in Orkney, Scotland. The re...

More on Samuel Taylor (1811 x 1812-1894): According to his son James (Reverend James Taylor), Samuel Taylor entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company at Kirkwall on 14 February 1836, in the office of Edward Clouston, and set sail from Stromness on 23 June 1836, on board the ship Prince Albert,...

Hi Garry, No, I'm not a descendant of Samuel Taylor but I have two children who are descended from one of his sisters, a lady named Margaret Taylor, who married an Orkney farmer named Nicol Firth. Margaret was the daughter of James Taylor, farmer at Holland in Firth, and his first wife, Margaret Cor...

To Any Interested Person, Samuel Taylor (1812-1894 amended here to 1811-1894) is not the son of Hudson's Bay Company Servant, James Taylor (1791-1878), as has previously been suggested. He is in fact the only known son of James Taylor, tenant farmer at Holland in the Orkney parish of Firth, in Scotl...