It was obvious that Allan McLean and his family left North Knapdale after the July Arichonan Riot in 1848. His brother, Duncan, was one of the people imprisoned for his role in that event. Allan's wife, Catherine, was very pregnant in July, and gave birth to a child, Allan, that October.
I have been interested in the fate of this family: the Glasgow slums, Australia, Canada or the USA, Knapdalians left their homes for all of these places.
Well. I have heard from one of Allan's descendents! It seems that he and his family went to Canada in 1849. "They owned land and farmed in Ekfrid township, Middlesex County, Ontario. Once in Canada, they had two more children.* Allan died September 10, 1868, and his wife, Catherine, June 30, 1870. They are buried in a small rural cemetary called Murray Cemetary in Ekfrid township, Middlesex County, Ontario."
* (Janet, born 1851; and Daniel, born 1857.)
my name allen daniel mclean md. b 3/29/39 father edmund daniel mcleanb omro wisconsin,3/6/1902 d 1980. fis father allen daniel mclean, b wisconsin 12/9/1871 d winnebago wis 1958, hi father daniel mclean b abt 1838 new brunswick canada d abt 1892 sailor creek, fifield, price, wisconsin wife margaret kane b abt 1840 new brunswick. father ?? mclean b ireland or scotland d canada wife margaret b ireland d wisconsin
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