LECKIE,
the surname of an old family in the county of Dumbarton. The head of
the family, at the beginning of the 18th century, was
John Leckie of Croy-Leckie, in that county. He married a daughter of
Macgregor of Glengyle by his wife, a daughter of the first William
Campbell of Glenfalloch, by whom he had several children. He was
proprietor of the lands of Croy-Leckie, afterwards the property of
Mr. Blackburn, and of the lands of Balvie, which became the property
of Mr. Campbell-Douglas. Having joined the cause of the Stuarts with
his brother-in-law, Rob Roy, in the rebellion of 1715, his estates
were forfeited, and he fled the country with all his family, except
the youngest son and a daughter, who remained in Scotland. This son,
Thomas Leckie, minister of the parish of Kilmarnock from 1703 to
1723, married Janet, daughter of James Buchanan of Catter, parish of
Drymen, now belonging to the duke of Montrose. He had an only son,
William, who became proprietor of the estate of Broich, now called
Arngomery, Stirlingshire, and was grandfather of William Leckie-Ewing,
Esq. of Arngomery, sole male representative of the family. The
daughter of John Leckie married James Maxwell of Merksworth,
Renfrewshire, from which marriage the Maxwell-Graham family (of
which the 13th countess of Buchan is a daughter), is
descended, as are also the Blacks, sometime of Clairmont, near
Glasgow.
