Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

McLean, Finlay

McLean, Finlay, Farmer, “Bird Grove,” Puriri, Fordell. Mr. McLean hails from Invernesshire, Scotland, where he was born in 1839. He is a lineal descendant of the famous family of McLeans of Urquhart, known as the “McLeans of the North,” from whom the lands of Urquhart passed into the hands of Grant; and his ancestors on both sides were active supporters of the Stuarts. At the age of twenty-two, Mr. McLean left his native heather for Australia, landing in Melbourne in 1862. The country not suiting him, he crossed over to Otago, where he engaged in sheep and cattle-dealing for six years, subsequently going to the West Coast diggings. After some time he re-visited Melbourne on his way to Scotland, where he arrived just before his father's death. Returning to Port Chalmers in 1869, he eventually came to the North Island, and was the first settler on Waitotara Flat after the Maori war. He took up his present holding in 1872, and now possesses a compact farm. Mr. McLean was married in 1872 to Miss Williamson, of Auckland, and has seven sons and two daughters.

page 1346
Mr. F. J. McLean.

Mr. F. J. McLean.