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From: "frank mcgonigal" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] my campbell, Fletcher, Mclean Mull family tree
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:02:29 -0500
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Hello Jean
I don't think that this was meant for me :o).
Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "jean whimp" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] my campbell, Fletcher, Mclean Mull family tree


> Biog index of south Australians shows a John Fletcher born 3 Dec 1830 and
> another one born 1821 - can give you more details of family if these dates
> look like being your John Fletcher. Jean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Kathy and Shane
> Maclean
> Sent: Monday, 4 December 2006 10:29 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] my campbell, Fletcher, Mclean Mull family
> tree
>
> gerry wrote:
>
>>Hi Shane
>>It just struck me that your John arrived in Australia during the gold rush
>>in Ballarat Victoria just one year after it started.As a example my
>>greatgrandfather Donald Campbell went to the Caribo gold rush in B.C. and
>>then returned home to Ontario with just enough gold for his sweethearts
>>wedding ring.
>> It seemed to me strange that John would go so far away from his
>> family.The
>
>>journey to the goldfields would have been by sea.However I don't think
>>that
>
>>would scare a Islander and perhaps he signed on as crew. at that time .In
>>1854 threr was a uprising by the miners which was called the Eureka
> Stockade
>>because they felt the authorities were unfair.The authorities being
>>English
>
>>government. Most of the miners were from overseas .The Irish and scots not
>>to mention english workers all had old greivances to settle with the
> engilsh
>>upper classes.There also were many europeans with with also with progress
>>domocatic ideas.Needless to say the redcoats had more men and amunition
>>and
>
>>overpowered the stockade in no time.Many of the miners left for home to
>>avoid the law.
>>This scenario might be wrong but who knows what our Mull fellows got up
>>to.They were tough and seasoned to hard knocks.
>>
>>regards Gerry
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Shane Maclean" <>
>>To: <>; <>
>>Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 2:14 AM
>>Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] my campbell, Fletcher, Mclean Mull family
> tree
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks Gerry. It's worth looking at.
>
> Shane
>
>>>Hi Gerry and Fiona
>>>
>>>In the last on the Mull List regarding Hugh and Catherine's son John
>>>Fletcher it states " Hugh & Catherine had 10 children and at least one
>>>son, John, emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1852. In the Farm Lanes of
>>>Bentinck, a history of Bentinck Township in Grey County, this is what it
>>>says about John Fletcher. "Catherine Fletcher, the eldest daughter, had
>>>married Hector McLean in Scotland. They raised their family at Creich on
>>>the Isle of Mull, then at Melfort on the Argyllshire mainland. In June
>>>1871 they came to Canada where most of their ten children were raised.
>>>Another son John came later and built fine furniture at Mull Farm for
>>>area settlers but later returned to Scotland. He pioneered the use of
>>>bird's eye maple veneers." This seems to indicate that John come to
>>>Canada sometime after Catherine. There is no indication of just how long
>>>he stayed in Canada. I guess the question is did this John go to
>>>Australia in 1852, return to Scotland and the come to Canada or is there
>>>another John Fletcher in the mix?
>>>
>>>Ever ending questions.
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Shane maclean
>>>
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