Marion McLean

1829 -

• Name	Marion McLean
  Birth	c.1829	Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Arrivial	31 Dec 1837	Australia
  Aboard the ship Midlothian
  Person ID	I88	T.Jamison-Australia

  
  

  Father	John McLean,   b. 1790, Lynvale, Isle of Skye, Scotland d. 30 May 1876, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Marion Effie MacLean,   b. 1807, Snizort, Isle of Skye, Scotland d. 31 Jul 1889, Ralstone, New South Wales, Australia (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	10 Feb 1831	Snizort, Isle of Syke, Scotland   [1]
  Notes	John McLean, and his family, came to Australia in 1837 from the Isle of Syke, Scotland, aboard the "Bounty Immigrant" ship "Midlothian," to take over, the Glen Alice estate, from his wife's brother, John MacLean, Superintendent of Agriculture and long time Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, who died shortly thereafter (1840), on Norfolk Island. [2, 3]
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  This may have been a child of a previous marriage for John McLean and may have been the Marion McLean, born 13 Aug 1828 (perfect timing to be the 8y on the Midlothian) in Portree, Isle of Syke, to a John McLean and Mary McLeod (that's down the road, 5-6 miles from Snizort, where John married Marion McLean in 1831) OPR birth record # 114/ 20 36

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] Marriage Record. OPR Marriages # 117 10 116 National Records of Scotland [S44] Carolyn Williams, The Traveling Table, p.21. [S40] Newspaper, Wednesday, 18 Mar 1940, p.2 . Colonist (Sydney : 1835-1840)