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Fellow Family illembsrs and Frie*dsI hope you arB all well and I e:rte*d I trust youall had a happy and safe Easbr, The yearFasses so quick$ and we *e well into *uhrmnand afur a prolanged and vely hot summer ueuelcome this lovely time of the year- I tftirkour aufirmn and sprirg arc most pleasant ardspring very productive,The llfraclean Highland Gatftering on Eas,&rSafurday was a great day v*i8 a stsrmbrcaking over tre grounds iust before Arefinish, Our Clan donabs $100.{N} torad tl*egrade 4 Piping Competition and 3t 3s awonderful eyenl'The Gathering *s in fu 103"1year.The ificFarlane Bridge at tkrkan, *dricherosse$ the Clarcnce next b tfte Shouqroundwfierc the Gathering is held, had its cenbnaryeelehmtions on gh Apr;I.The Celtic Festival at GIen lnne le on fie {*weekend of ililay each ycar. I recall last y*arwnting tfi go to fie Sstival and havs fleureeke$d tltere, hosever se cosldn't get aLooking for accommodation,Good wishee to all-,..hspe to ses you at frt*}IYililBOIBA COAGHIHG STATIOU OIII SU}IDAYHay 2't* at HOOH.

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Wemm-kffi@wffi fueffipemOne of Woolgoolga,s

best-*mown residents wilXbe celebrating his 53rdbirthday soon.

Graeme Mclennan isa popular Woolgoolgatown frequenter with theunique .skill of remem-bering the names of any-one he comes across.

Craeme has been wel-csming people to Wool-goolga for as long as any-one can remember.

It is unusual in thisday and age to comeacross someone who is sowarm and friendly andmany people are touchedby his apparent lack ofguile.

Neighbours have alsoa lot to be thankful forthat Graeme takes an

interest in them and theirlives.

If he sees an opportu-nity to help out, Graemeis in like a shot, and manyelderiy, sick or otherwiseincapacitated Woolgool-g4 to-wnspeople havebeen helped by Graemein their hours of need.

Muriel Morrow is arrelderly resident of Wool-goolga and Graeme hasbeen helping her withshopping and messagernow for 10 years.

Graeme fust offeredto help Muriel out wherher husband took sick.

"Shopping was a prob-lem for me then andGraeme offered to help,and continued after mvhusband passed away,''

Muriel said. ., Gfaeme is well-known"Graeme never fo1- at the newsagentwith the

gets a name and is always early-openei crowdpolite and

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person and I have never papers for other people.

Falkirk Wheel, ScotlandThis mesmerising 35 -mene-highstructure lifu boats and barges upfrom the Forth and Clyde Cairat'and lov'rers them gentlyinto tlreIlnion Canal. allowing iiem tonavigate Scodand coastto coast Itis the wodds first rotatins boatlift A cross between 4 fuirgroundatff action and a f uncfronat

airborne locla give the impress.ionthat boats ca4 fl5i as tneyrise,gloriousviews oT*re Ocirit Flitts

. ra@x:and viarid:,,fi i:e:vftIeelis apopular tourist attraction in itsown lighq, butjtii,also thecenffepiece of aE78 miiiion($184 milliorD program of civilengineering'worl<s ttrat haveimproved ttrese Caledoniancanals beyond all recognition.British Waterways turned dovrmeady proposals for a heritage-style ufteel insisting on a stdkingnewdesign-

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LAMB was roasting on thespif pumpkin scones and lam-ingtons were prepared anclAustralian flags

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Dundwrabin hosted the per-fect Australia Day.

More than 100 people con-verged on the finy village, 85kilometres south-west of Graf-ton along the Armidaie Road,to celebrate being Auskalian.

Visitors from the ClarenceValley and Dorrigo converged.on Dundurrabin for a flag-

raising ceremony, a plaque-unveiling and a whip-crackingdemonstration.

Clarence Valley Mayor IanTiley welcomed people to thecelebration and spoke aboutwhat Australia Day meant.

"It's about recognising ourpast, enjoying the present andanticipating with -great hopeour future," he said.

Clarence Val,ley ambassa-dor Jennie Brand-Miller said

she was honoured aud hum-bled to be part of the celebra-tions and implored everyoneto remember how lucky tJleywere to be Australian.

But the celebr:ationsweren't reserved just for thenation, with a plaque un-veiled and tree planted tohonour local resident JanetMclennan, who ran the near-by Tyringham Store for 42years before her death in Oc-tober 2003.

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oiiTi $terdausThe men and women who shaped the Claronce *ith Lurr"ft"GodbI

The $ant clanThe Mclennan familytree makes most otherslook like saplings

fnhey were seven little Aurraiims, growlcg

I up aeil Nlmboida on a properry sur-I rounded by mim of couitrs, but Thora

Mcleuu, her brothers ed sisters wouldcome to aealise they werc also part of a muchluge world-wide fmily.

Thora w6 t-he rhird of sevm cbildren bomto ElviD Ed Edice (lee Les) Mclemm.

The first of the McLeEes to sefle r@Nluboid4 Thora's geat glmdJather Fil_qEhil, had a fmily of t4 childien, the majon_ly of whom gtew up to settle dound the sea

'The Mcl€nnds had big fmilis,,, Thoraconcede. '"Ihey must have wmted to populateAustralia"

Wlen Farquhar's mother died, at 83,she had 72 grandcbildren and 60 greatgrandchiidren.

Well knom fmilis dound the Cla.eDceilea lrnked b the McIf,mru by mmiage ineillier yeils included t}le Austs, Weather,stones, Grahams, Faheys, McKeEs, Mffiells,Hawthomes, Bindleys md yudeys.

'nYe went to school at NEboida ad incompetitions it w6 always Mcleturms versuthe Resl" says Thora

"Mof, of the ottrers were Ellises or Simp.sore md ttley we.e ou cousitrs, @yhow. TheMclf,nno liDe dou[d N]mboida rc descen_dmts of Alquder ild Mary Mcl-eum, whomitEted fuom PtockaorL i! Scotlud it 183?witi the eldesr of their chil&e!, Filquhil,md Alqandeis sister CatieriDe_

'"Itrey'were probably'Mallennas, whenthey lefr Scotlmd but in Australia it tTa.duallygot changed to 'McI€eDe', to be witenwiihout the 'a'," says Thora

The family lived initialiy in tbe HuDterValley unril Alex@der, a stockman whoeshtllisbed himseli I a teamsier, Doved tothe New EDtl4d to work for the DuEaresqfamily.

Itr 1846 AI@dq Mcl€mu md hisbrother in law Willie Fremu blued tietrail that liDked the prospering New Engledwith the coutal ports oi lie CleeEce_

"lhat % probably his firsr sight of theNymboida se4" mys Thora

"Filqubil tNk up properry at T\rmb@kCr€k neil Blaxled Crcek in 1862, md in1869 A]eHder, Mary and their trc youn8eschildED selected led at Coutts Crosing."

Mofl of the menJolk of lhe fmily wereinvolved N tem#rs. 'They had good bul,lock md ttrey trffi tleir om com b feealthe anle," salG Thora

Neely ali *le old settlers, Alqander andbis wiie, Filquhu ud his sons ue buried incemeteris ilound the ue4 at Souti Graftonor Coutts CrNsing. Ex€pt for otre BysteryaEt that ThoE only 'discovered, iD 1996.

"She died yssEg, but I m find no burialpiacg vifiually Do reeords of her at all," saysThora "Appilently she re buried neu theold corchint statioa, which my grand pilentsstarted i! 1913. I believe she may have diedafter beint biften by a spider during floodtime. Stle wou.ld have needed to be buriedsraiBht away md iL would have been impossible m get her to the cemetery, although it w6not very fd away."

For TboE md her siblings, growiDg upned Nlmboida in r}Ie gos and 40s, iife w6quiet. but neyer dull. "I re It or 12 yeils oldbefore ever I saw tlie ocm,. Tbon realls.

nge lived five Eils fuom the school andDad had to provide enough homes to tet thesryen ol us there md back erch day,

"WtleD Mum ud Dad were first Earied,lhere wB no fridge, there wE oo elefficityat tbe home. Yeil6 later, they put the powerline through to Newc4tle just a litrle wayfrom our house, but they waDted 10,000Pounds to let us ap into it. Dad didt,r havemy 10,000 Pounds so we didn,t tet eypower.

"Dad ued to hang the milk Ep otr theverildah eacb dtht" to keep it frsh for tletrext momiDg but it started to disappeu, Hermloned we children must be gefting up int}le middle of the Dight. ed dritrkina it out ofthe ffii

-Ihen otre Dight he saw a big caxpet maketaking the milh We neyer killed @.persEaks. He just put it out in the bm..

Outings to tom were tu i!ftequent eventfor ttle seEior Mcl*@ms, @d @ *en aarerheat for the kids. . . ,\ve probably only wentb tom once or twice a yed," rccalls Thoa

on the road somewhere on the way bome_ Wewere bogged at the eEd oi Waugh,s Iee onenighl We a.11 had b wa.lk tlxe ro mils hoEe,caEyilt the yom8st childEL The w #vedin tie bog for a wrek There re no tr-actor topull ir out.

"At Christms we'd coBe iDto tom, a.ll thekids sihiDg io the bmk of the uE singintChristmd wols all the way, md Boing honetlere'd be a big box of Christmffi pmenE,things we weren't alloyed to l@k aL

'I reoember oae Christmu ME md Da_dhad lay-b/d the pr*eDts, but when it w6time to pick tieu up, there wre a flood mdthey muldn't get iDt! t m.

"Ali we got iD ou ChristEtr bcxs wre aho shiling (20c) pi@. you @ imagire howdisappointed we were at that,

If their parilts we.e deiayed in tom,eldest son Athol w4 in chege of his brotheBMd si*$ Mtil tleir pilents retumed home."He'd be like a cluclv hen witi us,,, reca.llsI'ho.a

But on winter days, 6 sooB 6 it tot duk"he wouldn't stay in the houre. He wou)dgatier u a1l up md take us up outo the hillmd m would wait there etil we saw the c{li&ts comin& He w6tr't much older t}lm us.it wa a bB reslonsibility for a boy..

Thom % a historim in t}le making. "Ialmys loved old thhgs,', she sars. But herkeD inErst in fmily hi$ory ws realiyspuked by the fomatioD of ttle Grafto! ClilMaclfnam Association in I9?3-

The move wN spoNored by Lillim Mcl€n_nm, of Grajton, md the Eroup,s first cle&thering, on September 22, 1973, tlroughttogether @ore than SO0 Mcl€man dercen,danB on tie Rodeo Grouads at SouthGrafton.

At tie group's first dnual meeting the for-mer Thora McI4Eoaq by tlen M6 Mr.l@lmMel€od, w6 elected treourer.

It is a posirioD she hffi heid ever since.Thom md stock md station agent Mal-

colm Mcko4 Eeied in 1960. They lived in

f ThoE Mcl€od and he. extmslye family .whiteboad, tr.I DewndanG of Alexilder and Mary Mclennil grcuped areund theirforebeas commemoratiye Standing Store, at Glei tnres,

mother died,at 83, she had 72

gra,ndchildrenand 60 great

grandchildren

"Onee a week Mum md Dad would go toFletehers Store &t Nymboida on a Saturdaymoming, md they would Eet tro shilings,(20c) wo*h of boiled lollies for G kids. Agreat bit baa, re reckoned re were gettingmore tim ou two bob's worttr

"Mmys the time the whole family wouldgo io a dece md the cil would get bogged

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Nasabri, Wee We and West WlElont, beforermming to the gldeDce ad ultimately buy-irg cee propertis Eee Bruhgrove. Therede thre children of tlle mmiate, Deane(Mrs Sreetr) of Soutl Graftotr, perry mdAndrew, both oi Broshgrove, plus eight BraDdchildren ad three treat grddcbildren_

"My mottrer, who is 95 md I ae the onlvsumivors of Lbose who afteoded rhat firstClu M4kDne ueedng in crafton,,, saysThora

Over the yem the NociatioD.h6 set up amemorial plaque hotrouring Alqeder Mclen_na md Wiltim Fremil for blsitrg the rrailfuom Amidale to South Grafton md endoweda g@ditrt SroDe at Gien iDes, iD honour ofAl*mder ed Maly Mcl€me. Cla members baye entertained visitint cla leaders udheld dozes of commemorative and socialgatlenrus where close ad distaDt relatiyesgot to know eacb other befter

Thora hu amGsed a y& collection offmily phoro8raphs md infomarion "mainlyby 6king people or copying old photogEphsomed by relativs," - it htr taken a lot ofwork

Her pelsonal family tree is sd out oD alilge sized wbiteboud, with a total of 4gfamily photo8raphs spmning five generations.There ile studio portraits of Alqander mdMary, may of their chil&en aad grandchildren @d a colledion of juz ate brides fromthe I920s- There are Bo photographs forsome, but personal infomation is faithtullvrecorded.

Aad Thora Mcleod remembers everydetail.

"I'd like t, wih a book abour ttte family,,,she says. "But I wouldn,t know where tostart."

A whole loom oi the new f@ily bome inSouth Graftoa is devobd m Clm Mclruaild fmily meBorabilia "I dont know whatwill become of it alt " she admits. "My sisteBmd my children ile Bot so interest€d. But Ijus ]oye iL" f

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