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...do YOUR families link back to first South Australian wheat growers?
Christina and Donald McLEAN from Scotland 1837
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1885 - 1977 (92 years)
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Name |
Albert John (Jack or Linc) HORNBY [1] |
Nickname |
Jack or Link |
Born |
2 Feb 1885 |
Port Broughton SA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Biography Notes |
- He was a kindly, loved man. His various occupations were road building, baking, wheat lumper and labourer (until he was quite a good age). He worked at stacks and on ships lumping wheat and in latter years. he, with his nephew "Pud" were a good team. They were clever at dropping bags from the shoulder into the exact right position, without having to use a bag hook to straighten them. They used slides and elevators to build the stacks and to load railway trucks for transporting to ketches tied up at the jetty. They also went out on windjammers anchored at the light (deep water). Walking on bagged wheat all day was very leg tiring as well as hard and heavy on the shoulders.
Jack also worked at the Port Broughton Fibre Works around 1912. He and his family lived on a block to the east of his parents, with about 100 acres (land on both sides of the Pt Pirie road). In his old age he lived in Pt Broughton and worked at the Hotel where he was widely and effectionately known as "Linc".
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Residence |
Port Broughton SA [1] |
Died |
26 Oct 1977 |
Port Broughton SA [1] |
Buried |
Port Broughton SA [1] |
Person ID |
I-1871 |
Christina and Donald McLean | Allan McLean's descendants |
Last Modified |
17 Sep 2018 |
Father |
William (Bill) Prescott HORNBY, b. 17 Dec 1858, Adelaide SA , d. 4 May 1948, Redhill SA (Age 89 years) |
Relationship |
-550 |
Mother |
Rachel MCLEAN, b. 21 Mar 1863, Strathalbyn SA , d. 6 Aug 1949, Port Pirie SA (Age 86 years) |
Relationship |
-550 |
Married |
19 Apr 1881 |
Redhill SA [2] |
- Marriage at PM Parsonage in Redhill.
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Note |
* They met when Bill was working at the hotel in Collinsfield.
* Maybe because of Bill's lack of schooling, the marriage was against the wishes of Allan and Catherine. There was a break with the whole family except with Mary. (BRB p101) |
Family ID |
F-550 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S-3] BRB 'Donald & Christina McLean & Their Descendants', 1995 copies available, Copies of the BRB available Strathalbyn National Trust Museum & Library, several libraries around Australia including State Library SA, and Western Australian Genealogical Society Bayswater WA Request assistance for locating a copy through 'Contact us' on this website. .
- [S-8] PUBLICATION Dawson book in Goolwa Library, Yvonne Heath of Morphettville, (Heath of Morphettville), C0461991941 - Goolwa.
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