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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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 1881 - 1914 (32 years)
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| Name |
Ellen Elizabeth MCLEAN [1] |
| Born |
14 Dec 1881 |
Dunmunkle Vic  [1, 2] |
- The BRB has the birthplace as Minyup whereas Dianne Facey has it as taking place at Dunmunkle and registered in Minyip.
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Female |
| Biography Notes |
- «b»Ellen Elizabeth McLean«/b» - born 14/12/1881 at Minyip, Vic.
Marriage: at St. James Baptist Church, Beulah. Victoria - with the consent of her father to Patrick Lavery (aged 37) - (Ellen aged 24). The Rev. James Ewart officiated. Of the 2 witnesses only Robert Johnstone's name can be deciphered on the certificate. Patrick Lavery was b. 27/4/1869 at Sandford, Victoria to Hugh Lavery (blacksmith aged 26) and his wife Mary Jane (nee Smith) aged 20. Hugh was from Annagh, Northern Ireland and Mary Jane from Monagham, Ireland. Patrick was
a farmer and Ellen a domestic and both were of Beulah.
Residence: Sheep Hills, Ouyen, Vic., after their marriage. Patrick became a foreman with the Victorian State Rivers Department.
Deaths:
Ellen in her 33rd year on 6/9/1914, leaving 2 children.
Patrick Lavery died aged 74 years on 7/12/1943. As can be seen dates and ages at marriage and death often do not "add up". The birth certificate of Patrick on 1869 (parents married 1868) and his 1906 marriage are an exception and correct. He was 12 years older than Ellen.
On the death of Ellen, Barney (7) and Hugh (4) went to live with their grandparents Soward and Maria McLean who reared the boys along with their own 12. Maria was a wonderful person and a fantastic cook, the oven was full at all times. Patrick Lavery married again and did not have a close association with the boys until they were grown up. Barney went to live with him at Ouyen during the Depression, but Hugh went on to further his studies and became a school teacher
Kongorong was very wet when the boys were small, as very few drains were dug to clear the water. In many places one could row a boat. The two boys rode a horse to school as did many of the students. Grandfather Soward warned the boys that they must not ride the shon cut through the Swamp during Winter because if they fell off it was deep enough to drown them. They were late one night and rather than get a hiding for being late they swam the horse through the
Swamp and water was up to the horse's back. The boys only got the bottoms of their pants wet and thought Grandfather would not notice, but they forgot to rub down the horse. They couldn't sit down for a week..,..
CHILDREN........:
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| Died |
6 Sep 1914 |
Kongorong SA [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I-4453 |
Christina and Donald McLean | Archibald McLean's descendants |
| Last Modified |
8 Mar 2018 |
| Father |
Charles Soward MCLEAN, Justice of Peace, b. 2 Mar 1859, Strathalbyn SA , d. 4 Apr 1951, Mt Gambier SA (Age 92 years) |
| Relationship |
-1467 |
| Mother |
Maria Elizabeth KRUGER, b. 29 Jun 1864, Linlithgow Vic , d. 18 Apr 1945, Kongorong SA (Age 80 years) |
| Relationship |
-1467 |
| Married |
28 Feb 1884 |
Murtoa Vic [2, 3] |
- St George's Lutheran Church, Murtoa, Vic
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| Family ID |
F-1467 |
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-148] FS Dianne Facey - ID 4624 - evidence pending , Worksheet 26 on 3rd March 2018 - inputted by Don Gordon on 8th March 2018.
Details provided by Dianne are held in the records of the C&D McLean Committee. These records are accessible via 'Contact us' on the homepage and will eventually be available at the Strathalbyn NTSA.
- [S-60] http://graememoad.com/Family/WC182/WC182_227.HTM, 5 Dec 2016.
Offers a marriage date and location which were blank.
Researcher Lorna McLean 05.12.2016
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