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From: "Val Burge" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Commun Na Feinne?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:53:18 +1100
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Good chance my grandad played the pipes while you were there Alwynne (",)
Val

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alwynne Mackie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Commun Na Feinne?


> My aunt, Alice Huddleston, had a dance company which performed there
before
> WW2. I even have a photo of myself after performing there (I was a very
> young thing), though I hate to think how the audience felt. I can remember
> lots of events there, but the place was finally closed and used as an Army
> Drill Hall in the early years of the war.
> Alwynne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Val Burge" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:22 PM
> Subject: [GEELONG] Commun Na Feinne?
>
>
> > Hello all, does anyone by any chance have any knowledge of the Commun Na
> > Feinne Highland Society in Geelong?
> >
> > I have McLeans, McPhersons and McDonalds all from around Fort William in
> > Scotland, who married each other over three generations in Geelong.
> >
> > I thought the families may have known each other in Scotland when it was
> > Alex McPherson and Mary McDonald marrying in the 1850's, but then their
> > grand-daughter Mabel married a McLean Fort William descendant as well,
in
> > 1913 ... seems too coincidental. Is it likely they knew each other's
> > ancestral homes from Commun Na Feinne gatherings? Archie McLean played
the
> > bagpipes in the Commun Na Feinne Pipe Band.
> >
> > If I could find info on members of Commun Na Feinne it'd be wonderful...
> > did
> > lists exist? Does anyone know how 'tight' the Scottish community were by
> > the
> > early 1900's? If Mabel was anything to go by, she was fiercely
Scottish...
> > two generations removed, and half English by birth.
> >
> > Val
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