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"The
Irish word for lake is Lough. The name was originally Scottish. The clan was
originally Macdonald, some of them moved to the head of the Lake and they
were known as the Locheed Macdonalds. Loch being the Scots spelling of Lake.
When part of the Clan was transplanted to Ireland the Irish spelling of Lake
was used making it Lougheed. The transition from Scotland was in 1688 following
the Battle of the Boyne from which King William the III (King William of Orange)
emerged victorious and cemented his position by transplanting English but
chiefly Scots to Ireland, we being among those transplanted. That is also
why Orange day is celebrated and why so many Lougheeds are Williams.
I had heard the founders of Lockheed aircraft
changed the spelling of their name from Lougheed
in 1912. I don't have any information that the
founders were close relatives of our grandfather
Hugh.
In 1910 (or so) Hugh Morrison Lougheed (our
grandfather who was born in Singhampton, Ontario;
mother's maiden name Morrison) married Minnie
Kendall from Morden, Manitoba. On their honeymoon
they went to Mexico. Did they go because of the
1910 Mexico Revolution or in spite of it? They
continued on to Los Angeles and took a boat to
Seattle, and then somehow went to Montana. In
Montana, they purchased a team of horses and a
buggy (called a democrat) and headed north to
Alberta, to the Peace River area (a river that
flows one mile an hour). Eventually, they settled
on a farm outside Portage la Prairie near Winnipeg
and had six sons, one of whom was my father
Melford.
Some more grist for our mill:
What follows is a copy of an e-mail I received
from a Lougheed in Australia.
"The Irish word for lake is Lough. The name was
originally Scottish. The
clan was originally Macdonald, some of them moved
to the head of the Lake
and they were known as the Locheed Macdonalds.
Loch being the Scots
spelling of Lake. When part of the Clan was
transplanted to Ireland the
Irish spelling of Lake was used making it
Lougheed.
The transition from Scotland was in 1688 following
the Battle of the Boyne
from which King William the III (King William of
Orange) emerged victorious
and cemented his position by transplanting English
but chiefly Scots to
Ireland, we being among those transplanted. That
is also why Orange day is
celebrated and why so many Lougheeds are Williams.
First information received was from a Dr. John
Locheed who researched the
subject in Scotland. The Lockeed Aircraft is from
the Lougheed family, -
their non-business name is Lougheed.
The earliest Lougheed recorded in North America
was ìEtobicoke Jimî.
Earliest record of a Lougheed from Sligo is James
born in 1796 two
centuries ago. Some of his post mortem records
give the date as 1800".
Can I get it straight - your Father was Mel born
May 21, 1918. Can you
tell me the years his brothers were born? I know
their grandmother was
born in Ballymote not far from Sligo.
I would love to continue writing and will send you
any information I
receive. I have written to A. Lougheed.
I do know of that the Lougheed's of Alberta are
all "kin". I have tried to
get on to the web site of "lady.htm" but am unable
to do so. It says site
closed down.
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