Murdo Young McLean

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• Name: M. Y. McLean
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-251064
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Occupation: 1866, Cornwall, Stormont Co., Ontario, Canada; Cornwall Freeholder Newspaper
• Residence: 1866, Cornwall, Stormont Co., Ontario, Canada

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Murdo Young McLean (February 7, 1848 \endash January 19, 1916) was a Canadian newspaper publisher and political figure in Ontario. He represented Huron South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1898 and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1911 as a Liberal member.
He was born in North Dumfries Township, Waterloo County, Canada West and educated in Ayr. McLean was editor and publisher of the Huron Expositor, previously known as the Seaforth Expositor; he purchased the paper in 1870 with his brother Alan. He served on the town council for Seaforth, also serving as reeve, mayor and as a member of the public school board. McLean was secretary-treasurer for the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company and the South Huron Agricultural Society. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1908 by-election held after the death of Benjamin B. Gunn and then reelected in the general election later that year. In 1911, he was defeated for the federal seat by Jonathan Joseph Merner. He died of heart failure in Seaforth in 1916.
His grandson Andrew Young McLean later served in the House of Commons and was also publisher for the Expositor which remained in the McLean family until 1982.

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Murdo married Jenny Smith 25 Dec 1866, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada. Jenny (daughter of John Smith and Sarah Isabella Veitch) was born 1840, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 30 Apr 1881; was buried , Maitland Cemetery, Goderich Township, Huron Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-73668

John — Isabella McRae. Isabella (daughter of Donald McRae and Isabel Young) was born CALC 24 Nov 1799, Black Isle Parish, Knockbain, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland; was christened 27 Nov 1799, Arpafeelie Episcopal Chapel, Knockbain, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland; died 30 Jul 1868, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella McLean
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-73669
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church

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Died, At her late residence, in Ayr, this, Thursday, afternoon at Two o'clock, Isabella McRae, Relict of the late John McLean, aged 68 years. Funeral, On Saturday, at Two o'clock, p.m. to the place of interment, Ayr. Ayr, July 30th, 1868.


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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-171831

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Donald Macrae was born on the Black Isle, Ross-shire in January 1762 and died on 02 April 1833. A Donald Macrae was buried in Petty Old Churchyard 1833 aged 71: this is likely to be him. At the time of his marriage he was a tenant farmer at Torgorma(i)g, near Redcastle. In 1833 there is a reference to Donald Macrae being a tenant farmer at Culcabock, Inverness and son and heir to Alexander Macrae, a farmer of Wester Kessock. At the Black Isle Episcopal Chapel at Arpafeelie, Knockbain parish on 09 December 1791 he married Isabel Young (of the same parish). She was born in September 1774 and died on 10 December 1813 and she is believed to have been closely related to Murdo Young who edited "The Sun" newspaper in London. Following Isabel's death, Donald married Catherine Grant in the Inverness-shire parish of Croy & Dalcross on 09 or 11 December 1817: she was born in October 1796 and died on 30 March 1844. When Donald and Catherine's first three children were born, the family were living at Galcantray (a farm near Cawdor, Nairn): their last three children were born in the village of Culcabock (now part of Inverness). At the time of the 1841 census the family were living at Culcabock though Donald had died by that time: present were Donald's widow Catherine aged 40 who was a female servant, Alexander a tailor apprentice aged 15, Ronald aged 12, Margaret aged 10 and Catherine aged 8.

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Donald — Isabel Young. Isabel was born Sep 1774; died 10 Dec 1813. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabel McRae
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-171834