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I have been unable to find birth records for Elizabeth or her
sister, Jessie.
The photo of Broxt Cottage (below) was supplied by Ana Gray-Doughty
In 1851 the census has her, age 37 years, living at Broxt Cottage, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire with her nephew, Douglas McLean (D.H. Macarthur). She was engaged as a deaconess (teacher) and this is presumably where her nephew received his “good education, including languages”. In 1856 he emigrated to New Zealand and when he built his house “Broxt” in Feilding.
In the 1871 census she is still living in Monks Kirby, with Jane Kirkman and her daughter Catherine Kirkman, Dorothea Gibbs and a domestic servant, Mary Allington.
By 1881 she has moved to The Cottage, Beckenham, Kent. She is now aged 67, and birthplace is given as Edinburgh, Scotland. Living with her still, are Catherine Kirkman and Dorothea Gibbs and also her niece Marianne Macarthur (a school teacher) and four servants.
Elizabeth McLean died aged 79 years in 1893.
The Myers Family History -Elizabeth McLean
Cathy Clarke, Wellington, New Zealand
email: catherine.clarke@clear.net.nz
Last updated: 9 Oct 2009