Head Family
The Head family’s lineage can be traced back to the early 1800s on the island of Islay. During this period, their surname was recorded as “Eads.” As time passed, some members of the family adopted the surname “Head,” while others chose “Heads.” Some later generations changed the name to “Hood”.
The family’s roots can be traced to John Eads and Mary Ferguson. John, according to family lore, had a seafaring background, with rumors suggesting that he hailed from either England or Wales. This assertion aligns with the name’s English origins, as both “Ead” and “Head” have roots in English etymology.
Mary was born in Kilmeny, Islay, to her parents John Ferguson and Ann McDonald, grounding her heritage firmly on the island.
Unfortunately, John passed away before the year 1841, and Mary followed in 1869. Together, they brought eight children into the world, as detailed in the family group record. Remarkably, almost all of their offspring departed Islay during their youth, likely due to the pressures of the Highland Clearances. While the Clearances on Islay may not have been as tumultuous as in other regions, characterized by the absence of soldiers and house burnings, they still compelled people to seek new opportunities elsewhere to make a sustainable living.
The children embarked on their new lives initially in Paisley, with only one of them choosing to remain on the island. They later ventured to various locations, including Kilbarchan, Greenock, Glasgow, and even as far as Canada.
1st Generation
John Eads and Mary Ferguson
2nd Generation
Archibald Eads
George Eads
Neil Eads
John Eads b 1820 in Kilmeny d bef 1827 in Kilmeny
Mary Eads b 1823 in Kilmeny d bef 1830 in Kilmeny
Alexander Eads
John Eads
Mary or Ann Eads
3rd Generation
Archibald Eads and Flora McDonald’s children
Catherine Eads
Mary Ann Eads
John Eads b Abt 1847 in Ontario, Canada d 17 Aug 1868 in Sydenham, Ontario, Canada
Archibald Eads b abt 1850 in Ontario, Canada d 27 Jan 1882 in Annan, Ontario, Canada
Anabella Eads
Flora Eads b 5 Apr 1855 Ontario, Canada d 16 Dec 1943 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
George Eads and Christina McInnes’ children
Ann/Agnes Head
Mary Head
John Head
Christina Head
Donald Head
Neil Head b 1859 in Glasgow d 1900 in Glasgow
Christina/Catherine Head b 1861 in Glasgow d 1863 in Glasgow
Neil Eads and Janet Trotter’s children
John Head
George Head
Archibald Head b abt 1854 in Johnstone d 1879 in Paisley
Janet Head b 1858 in Kilbarchan d 1858 in Kilbarchan
Neil Eads and Agnes Ferguson’s children
Janet Head
Neil Head
William Ferguson Head
Mary Head b 1867 in Kilbarchan d 1875 in Kilbarchan
Agnes Ferguson Head b 1872 in Kilbarchan d unknown
Marion Ferguson Head b 1875 in Kilbarchan d 1875 in Kilbarchan
Alexander Eads and Catherine McIntyre’s children
Alexander Heads b abt 1853 in Kilchoman d 1877 at sea
Mary Heads
Anne Heads b 1858 in Kildalton d 1868 in Port Ellen
John Heads
Archibald Heads
George Heads b 1866 in Port Ellen d 1866 in Kildalton
Neil Heads b 1866 in Port Ellen d 1866 in Kildalton
George Heads
Neil Heads b 1871 in Kildalton d 1953 in Bowmore
John Eads and Flora Campbell’s children
John Eads b 1854 in Paisley d 1855 in Greenock
Angus Eads
John Eads
Christina Eads
Mary Eads
Mary/Ann Eads and John McDonald’s children
John McDonald
Neil McDonald b 1855 in Paisley d 1873 in Paisley
Agnes McDonald
Mary McDonald
Lachlan McDonald
Archibald McDonald
Flora McDonald b 1865 in Paisley d 1866 in Paisley
Jean McDonald b 1867 in Paisley d 1873 in Paisley
Maggie McDonald b 1869 in Paisley d 1877 in Paisley
Donald McDonald b 1872 in Paisley d 1875 in Paisley
4th Generation
Catherine Eads and Archibald Campbell’s children
Isabella Campbell
Archibald John Campbell
Mary Ann Eads and James McLean’s children
Anabella Eads and John McDonald’s children
William Archibald McDonald
Arthur Welsley McDonald
James Herbert McDonald
John McDonald
Flora McDonald b 1891 in Sydenham, Ontario, Canada d 1947 in Ontario, Canada
Ann Head and Roderick Johnson’s children
Mary Head and John Miller’s children
Janet Baillie Miller
George Heed Miller b 1882 in Glasgow d 1972 in Dundee
Andrew Hardie Miller b 1883 in Glasgow d 1902 in Dunfermline
John Head and Catherine McMartin’s children
George Charles Ead b 2 Mar 1889 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada d 7 Mar 1920 in Grey, Ontario, Canada
Malcolm Ernest Ead b 1891 11 Jun 1891 in Grey, Ontario, Canada d 1895 in Grey, Ontario, Canada
John Malcolm Ead
Christina Head and Alexander Arthur’s children
Donald Head and Grace Anderson’s children
Angus Head
George Head
John Head
Mary Head
Neil Head
John Head and Mary Sproule’s children
Douglas Norris Head b 5 Mar 1874 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada d 21 Apr 1874 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
George Head and Margaret Sproule’s children
Janet Head’s children
Sarah Ferguson Head
William Head
Janet Head and William Wooler’s children
Margaret Wooler
Agnes Wooler b 21 Jan 1896 in New York, USA d 1986 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA
William Wooler
William Ferguson Head and Margaret Corbett’s children
Janet Ferguson Head
Neil Head
Agnes Ferguson Head b 30 Mar 1889 in Newark, New Jersey, USA d 10 May 1906 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Sarah Ferguson Head b 29 Mar 1891 in New York, USA d 25 May 1897 in New York, USA
Margaret Head
Marion Head
Mary Head
William Head
Mary Heads children
Duncan Heads b 1879 in Kildalton d 1881 in Kildalton
Neil Heads
Duncan Heads
James Heads b 1885 in Kildalton d 1885 in Kildalton*
Annie Heads
*James and Duncan, twins by birth, share a historical record of the death in 1885, registered under Duncan’s christian name. However, there is lack of additional records for James, while Duncan seems to have survived, marrying and eventually dying at a later date.
John Heads and Mary Johnston’s children
Margaret Heads b 1885 in Kildalton
Alexander Heads
John Heads
Mary Heads
Neil Heads
Archibald Heads and Mary MacFadyen’s children
Alexander Heads b 9 May 1891 in Kildalton d 1964 in Kilmore
Catherine Heads b 1892 in Kildalton d 1945 in Kildalton
Archibald Heads
George Heads and Betsy McCuaig’s children
Margaret Heads
Alexander Peter Heads
Neil Heads b 1899 in Glasgow d 1900 in Glasgow
Catherine Heads b 1901 in Glasgow d 1921 in Glasgow
Mary Heads b 1903 in Glasgow d 1905
Annie Heads
Angus Eads and Jane Coats’ children
Janet Montgomery Eads
Alexander Campbell Eads
John Eads b 1881 in Greenock d 1881 in Greenock
Flora Campbell Eads
Angus Eads b 1884 in Greenock d 1911 in Greenock
Jane Arthur Eads b 1887 in Greenock d 1896 in Greenock
Mary Eads
Christina Eads
Sarah Eads b 1894 in Greenock d 1911 in Greenock
Dugald Coats Eads
Margaret Eads b 1902 in Greenock d 1929 in Greenock
Christina Eads and Edward Adams’ children
Robert Adams
John Adams b 1887 in Greenock d 1897 in Greenock
David Adams b 1888 in Partick d 1918 in Greenock
Edward Adams
Angus Adams
Joseph Adams b 1896 in Greenock d 9 Apr 1917 in France
Mary Eads and Peter Love’s children
Margaret Adam Love
Flora Campbell Love
Janet Adam Love b 1891 in Paisley d 1905 in Paisley
Mary Love b 1894 in Paisley d 1946 in Barrhead
Adamina Love b 1897 in Paisley d 1968 in Johnstone
James-Mima Dick Love
John McDonald and Agnes Gray’s children
Flora McDonald b 1885 in Paisley d 1927 in Paisley
Agnes McDonald and James Dick’s children
Jane Dick b 1880 in Paisley d 1881 in Paisley
Mary McDonald Dick b 1881 in Paisley d unknown
Mary McDonald and Thomas McGill’s children
Mary McDonald McGill
Agnes Muir McGill b 1890 in Saltcoats d 1910 in Glasgow
Archibald McDonald and Mary Liddell’s children
Mary McDonald b 1895 in Alva d unknown
5th Generation
Isabella Campbell and William John Hawkins’ children
William Archibald Hawkins
Alfred Colin Hawkins
Catherine Anabelle Hawkins
Annie Alice Hawkins
Margaret Louisa Hawkins
Flora Alma Hawkins
Female Hawkins b 22 Nov 1908 in St Vincent, Ontario, Canada d 22 Nov 1908 in St Vincent, Ontario, Canada
Archibald John Campbell and Margaret Pitts children
John Alexander Campbell
Catherine Isabel Campbell
Flora Marjorie Campbell
William Archibald McDonald and Catherine Morrison’s children
Jack McDonald b abt 1909 in Sakatchewan, Canada d 1910 in in Sakatchewan, Canada
Janet Baillie Miller and Archibald Stevenson’s children
Archibald Stevenson
Andrew Miller Stevenson
John Miller Stevenson
Helen Laurie Barclay Stevenson
George Heed Miller Stevenson
Mary Heed Stevenson
Janet Baille Millar Stevenson
Annie Arthur’s children
Angus Head and Rachel Cunningham’s children
Elizabeth Truesdale Cunningham Hood
George Head and Jane Houston’s children
George Head
Grace Head b 1905 in Glasgow d 1907 in Glasgow
Christopher Head b 1906 in Glasgow d 1907 in Glasgow
Neil Head
Angus Head
Jane Head
John Head b 1920 in Glasgow d 1921 in Glasgow
Donald Head
John Head and Jeanie McMillan Devlin’s children
Angus Head
Alexander Head
Grace Anderson Head
John Head b 1912 in Glasgow d 1913 in Glasgow
Donald Campbell Head b 1914 in Glasgow d 1929 in Glasgow
Thomas Head
Elizabeth Murray Head
Mary Head and William McMillan’s children
Grace Anderson McMillan b 19 Nov 1909 in Glasgow d 1988 in Glasgow
Mary McMillan b 20 May 1912 in Glasgow d 1917 in Glasgow
Fanny McJarrow McMillan
William McMillan
Angusina McMillan b 1922 in Glasgow d 1983 in Glasgow
Alexander McMillan b 1925 in Glasgow d 1998 in Glasgow
Donald Hood McMillan
Neil Head and Martha McArthur’s children (1st family)
Mary Hood b 1909 in Glasgow d 1910 in Glasgow
Margaret Hood
Neil Head and Margaret McArthur’s children (2nd family)
Donald Hood
James Hood b 1917 in Glasgow d 1985 in Glasgow
Grace Anderson Hood b 1919 in Glasgow d 1921 in Glasgow
Elizabeth McArthur Hood
Neil Hood b 1924 in Glasgow d 1927 in Glasgow
Grace Anderson Hood
Annie Forrest Hood
Jane McArthur Hood
John Head and Lachline Bell’s children
Margaret Head
John Archibald Head
Mary B Head
Sarah Ferguson Head and James Andrew Jamieson’s children
Margaret Jamieson
James Riel Jamieson b 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA d 1948 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Sadie Jamieson
Robert Head Jamieson
Kenneth Jamieson
George Jamieson
Margaret Wooler and Wilbur S Johnson’s children
Janet Elizabeth Johnson
Wilbur Wooler Johnson
William Head Wooler and Elizabeth Leyman’s children
William Norwood Wooler b 11 Jul 1922 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA d 28 Apr 1997 in Sebree, Kentucky, USA
Margaret Head and James Hailes’ children
Agnes J Hailes
Margaret Helen Hailes
William Head and Ethel Krough’s children
(1.3.7.8.1) William Ferguson Head b 1924 d 1988
(1.3.7.8.2) Neil Head b 1928 d 1986
(1.3.7.8.3) Alive Head b 1931
John Heads and Betsy McKay’s children
(1.6.4.3.1) Jessie Logan Heads b 1919 m 1948 d 2003
(1.6.4.3.2) Mary Heads b 1921 d 1946
(1.6.4.3.3) John Heads b 1924 m 1955 d 2016
(1.6.4.3.4) Marion Heads b 1927 m 1958 d 1988
(1.6.4.3.5) Duncan Heads b 1932 m 1956 d 2007
Janet Montgomery Eads and David Moore’s children
(1.7.2.1.1) Angus Eads Moore b 1910 m 1936 d 1994
(1.7.2.1.2) David Moore b 1912 m 1940 d 1978
(1.7.2.1.3) William McGranachan Moore b 1914 d 1977
Flora Campbell Eads and James Boyd
(1.7.2.4.1) Jean Coats Boyd b 1913 m 1937 d 2003
(1.7.2.4.2) James Boyd b 1917 m 1940 d 2007
(1.7.2.4.3) Kennedy Boyd b 1925 d 1925
Christina Eads and Hector Duff’s children
(1.7.2.8.1) Living Duff
(1.7.2.8.2) Christina Duff b 1926 m 1955 d 2012
(1.7.2.8.3) Flora Duff b 1928 m 1944 d 2014
Dugald Eads and Elizabeth McGranachan’s children
(1.7.2.10.1) Alexander Campbell Eads b 1921 d 2004
(1.7.2.10.2) Living Eads
Robert Adams and Jessie Braid’s children
(1.7.4.1.1) Edward Braid Adams b 1908 m 1929 d 1967
(1.7.4.1.2) Mary Kettles Adams b 1910 m 1935 d 1972
(1.7.4.1.3) Allison Braid Adams b 1916 m 1934 d 1996
(1.7.4.1.4) Living Adams
Edward Adams and Annie Graham Kirkwood’s children
(1.7.4.4.1) Annie Kirkwood Adams b 1924 d 1986
6th Generation
William Archibald Hawkins and Lena Mae King’s children
(1.1.1.1.1.1) William Neil Hawkins b 1918 d 2012
(1.1.1.1.1.2) Kenneth Lavern Hawkins b 1923 d 1971
(1.1.1.1.1.3) Arthur Campbell Hawkins b 1927 d 2002
Alfred Colin Hawkins and Rose Anderson’s children
(1.1.1.1.2.1) Charles Bruce Hawkins b 1933 d 1957
Annie Alice Hawkins and James Elmer Brown’s children
(1.1.1.1.4.1) Helen Alice Doreen Brown b 1929 d 1994
Margaret Louisa Hawkins and Walter Scott Johnson’s children
(1.1.1.1.5.1) Amelia Isabelle Johnson b 1924 d 2000
(1.1.1.1.5.2) Catherine A Johnson b 1926 d 2005
(1.1.1.1.5.3) Albert Arthur Leslie Johnson b 1928 d 2010
(1.1.1.1.5.4) Lorne H Johnson b 1930 d 2009
Flora Alma Hawkins and William C Rennie’s children
(1.1.1.1.6.1) Jack M Rennie b 1933
Catherine Isobel Campbell and Alexander Roy Elgin McMillan’s children
(1.1.1.2.2.1) Margaret Isobel Campbell b 1928 m 1974 d 2006
Dorcas Arthur and Joseph McLin’s children
(1.2.4.1.1.1) Mary A McLin b 1914 m 1933 d 1991
(1.2.4.1.1.2) Donald Joseph McLin b 1918 d 1989
(1.2.4.1.1.3) Arthur Neale McLin b 1920 d 2004
(1.2.4.1.1.4) Phyllis Ella McLin b 1826 m 1952
(1.2.4.1.1.5) June Rhoda McLin b 1929
George Head and Edith Agnes Andrews Hunter’s children
(1.2.5.2.1.1) George Head b 1925 m 1948 d 2002
(1.2.5.2.1.2) William Head b 1925 d 1925
(1.2.5.2.1.3) Margaret Head b 1927 m 1947 d 2005
(1.2.5.2.1.4) Living Head
(1.2.5.2.1.5) Living Head
(1.2.5.2.1.6) Living Head
Neil Head and Cecilia Russell’s children
(1.2.5.2.4.1) Elizabeth Head b 1933 m 1955 d 1995
(1.2.5.2.4.2) Jane Head b 1936 d 1936
(1.2.5.2.4.3) Cecilia Head b 1937 d 1937
Angus Head and Jane Doran’s children
(1.2.5.2.5.1) Elizabeth Head b 1933 d 1945
(1.2.5.2.5.2) Living Head
(1.2.5.2.5.3) Living Head
(1.2.5.2.5.4) Donald Head b 1944 d 1944
(1.2.5.2.5.5) Living Head
Donald Head and Isabella Fenton’s children
(1.2.5.2.8.1) Donald Head b 1949 d 1950
(1.2.5.2.8.2) Living Head
(1.2.5.2.8.3) Living Head
Donald McMillan and Janet Wilson’s children
(1.2.5.4.4.1) Donald Hood McMillan b 1949 d 1949
Margaret Head and Paul Alexandre Dufresne’s children
(1.3.2.1.1.1) Alexander Patterson Dufresne b 1948 d 2005
7th Generation
Amelia Isabelle Johnson and William Harold Melville Webster’s children
(1.1.1.1.5.1.1) Lorne W Webster b 1943 d 1943
Donald Joseph McLin and Annie Fedorchuk’s children
(1.2.4.1.1.2.1) Jeffrey Arthur McLin b 1958 d 2010
(1.2.4.1.1.2.2) Living McLin
Arthur Neale McLin and Helen’s children
(1.2.4.1.1.3.1) Arthur Neale McLin b 1945 d 2006
(1.2.4.1.1.3.2) Living McLin