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Antrim / Re: Belfast McCleans
« on: Monday 17 March 25 04:21 GMT (UK) »
Hello People interested in the McCleans of Belfast, Resurrecting this old thread, as I was so overjoyed to find it and want to thank you all. Plus I have a tidbit of extra news.
I'm a great great great granddaughter of Daniel McClean. His son William McClean came to Australia and the name was changed there to Maclean. When William died, whoever did his death certificate, put his occupation down as "Surgeon, Belfast". This has caused a lot of dire searching because as I now know, Daniel was in fact a publican. Surgeon in those days was possibly what we know as a barber these days - so we've been heading down a lot of fruitless rabbit holes, until I saw these posts from a few years ago.
What I've been able to do is follow the entire circle to the probate where money was inherited through Daniel's daughter to William's descendants in Australia (of whom I have a better knowledge). This was a profound connecting of the dots. So thank you all for your contributions.
What I'm writing about today is to let anyone who is interested know, that I found a newspaper article - a death notice of 5 March 1830 - where it appears Daniel lost a young son of 10 years of age to an illness of "decline". Could have been any number of illnesses that we now have modern treatment for. Anyway just thought I'd put that here in case anyone needs to update their records.
The notice was via the British Newspaper Archive, and appeared in the Belfast News-Letter of Friday 5 March 11830
I'm a great great great granddaughter of Daniel McClean. His son William McClean came to Australia and the name was changed there to Maclean. When William died, whoever did his death certificate, put his occupation down as "Surgeon, Belfast". This has caused a lot of dire searching because as I now know, Daniel was in fact a publican. Surgeon in those days was possibly what we know as a barber these days - so we've been heading down a lot of fruitless rabbit holes, until I saw these posts from a few years ago.
What I've been able to do is follow the entire circle to the probate where money was inherited through Daniel's daughter to William's descendants in Australia (of whom I have a better knowledge). This was a profound connecting of the dots. So thank you all for your contributions.
What I'm writing about today is to let anyone who is interested know, that I found a newspaper article - a death notice of 5 March 1830 - where it appears Daniel lost a young son of 10 years of age to an illness of "decline". Could have been any number of illnesses that we now have modern treatment for. Anyway just thought I'd put that here in case anyone needs to update their records.
The notice was via the British Newspaper Archive, and appeared in the Belfast News-Letter of Friday 5 March 11830