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From: "Beryl O'Gorman" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Fw: Barclay Family - Boort
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:44:56 +1100


Beryl O'Gorman
Greensborough Victoria Australia

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From: "Mrs Elizabeth Anne Buckle" <>
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Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:28 AM
Subject: Barclay Family - Boort


> Hi All
>
> Have been lurking and looking, now its time to do some listing!!
>
> My gggrandfather, Walter BARCLAY moved to the Boort area in the 1880s
> I think, from the Bungaree and Mt Egerton areas.
> His second wife and children of that marriage went with him leaving
> behind his son from his first marriage with his family in Mt Egerton.
>
> Walter had emigrated from the UK c.1851 settling first in Geelong
> before moving on to the Bungaree/Mt Egerton area probably late 1850s.
> He was originally from Scotland -
> Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire but he had migrated to
> Shropshire by 1836 when he married Harriet WOOFE in Much Wenlock.
> They had one child - John McGeorge BARCLAY. She died in 1841 and we
> next hear of Walter when he marries Elizabeth CLIFTON possibly in
> London in 1843.
> Three children are born to them in London - Sophia, Fanny and Isaac.
> Two more children are born after their arrival in Australia - a boy
> Walter who dies before his first birthday and the a second child is
> born who is also called Walter at Ashby (Geelong West)
>
> Walter BARCLAY b. 1810, d. 03 Jan. 1878 at Boort
> He and his sons, Isaac and Walter, are mentioned in "Smoke From the
> Hill" ( History of the Boort District) and "The Spirit Moved on Bald
> Hill" (The Weslyan Movement in Boort District)
>
> I am looking for any further information on this family and their
> descendants. I do know that Walter's daughter Fanny married a Daniel
> WADE who features on another limb of my particular family tree. They
> would have met through the BARCLAYs of Mt Egerton - her half brother
> John and his wife Emily Betsy who was a WADE.
>
> Sorry to be so long winded.
> Thank you for you patience
>
> Liz Buckle
>
>

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