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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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1868 - 1938 (69 years)
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Name |
John James Frazer MCLEAN [1] |
Nickname |
Jack |
Born |
1 Aug 1868 [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Biography Notes |
- Unmarried. Moved to Westem Australia during the gold rush of the 1890s. There is a photocopy of a photograph of him taken in middle age, amongst the McLean collection and also a print of the picture of his grave at Merredin, W.A.
DEATH: at hospital, Merredin on 23/2/1938 aged 69 years.
HISTORY: Frazer, also called John or Jack corresponded with his sister Mrs Keough & her family at Strathalbyn.
A post card from Stanley Keough survives: "Dear Uncle Jack - I received your pretty card and like it very much. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - with love from Stanley." The card is undated but a 12 shows in the faint post mark, indicating 1912.
A West Australian relative has written the following without giving her name:
"John (Frazer) is remembered by his visits to his sister's (Elizabeth Ann Johnston) family. He searched for gold during the gold rush, settling in Merredin district where he worked as a farm hand until his death.
On one of his visits to his family he gave Clover & Heather celluloid dolls. These were then passed down to their own daughters. My parents were transferred to Merredin when I was twelve and I knew that John was buried in the old Merredin cemetery so I enquired at the shire about his grave but as it had no headstone didn't feel that I had found it.
As I worked at the Merredin Hospital before my marriage (as a clerk), l had the opportunity to check the records of both John & my grandmother who had both died there. I was surprised to that they had both died in exactly the same room, some ten years apart. Last year I returned to Merredin and found his unmarked grave and have placed a ceramic tile that I had painted for him."PL
lncidently the Stanley Keough post card is addressed to Mr J. F. McLean, Lance Wood Line, W.A. where he must have been working in 1912.
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Occupation |
c1930 |
Merredin WA [1] |
Farm hand |
Occupation |
c1930 |
Merredin WA [1] |
Gold digger |
Died |
23 Feb 1938 |
Merredin WA [1] |
- DEATH MERREDIN DISTRICT HOSPITAL WA
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Buried |
Merredin WA [1] |
Person ID |
I-5588 |
Christina and Donald McLean | Ewen (Hugh the younger) McLean's descendants |
Last Modified |
4 Dec 2016 |
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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-54] FM Pat Long-nee Loder - evidence pending, Interview Lorna McLean, c2015.
Offered family memories (FM) of "Jack"
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