Talk:Macleans College

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i've tryed to prune this article of its blatant school advertising. others who can contribute constructively and within Wikipedia guidelines are urged to assist Goldfinger820 (talk) 03:10, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

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Seriously, do we need references to every single fact, when they are easily found on the school website anyways?!?! Still, I have replaced 2 of these to the exact pages for people who can't be bothered browsing. Ronald Ping Man Chan (talk) 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Fact and Fiction
Fact

The particular New Zealand Maclean families in question where Cornish by birth, not Scottish.

Maclean is spelt with a small 'l' and not a capital 'L'.

The New Zealand Macleans where 3 of 4 brothers born (John 1811, Robert 1813, Benjamin 1815 and Thomas Every 1819) to Robert Lean and his wife Elizabeth nee Every, who farmed an estate known as Trehudreth, Blisland, Cornwall. The 4th brother, John, stayed in Cornwall, and was knighted for public service as an auditor. He was a well known Cornish historian, ie Sir John Maclean.

These 4 brothers claimed Scottish forebears and changed their surname from Lean to Maclean in 1845. There is no creditable evidence that the claimed Scottish connection was fact. In fact the brothers can be traced through Parish records to a marriage between a Henry Lean and Margery Southerum in St Breward Parish 1609. The 4 brothers were 7th generation from that marriage. I am 10th generation. My great grandfather was Benjamin Maclean (1815 to 1883).

I have 3 sons and a grandson who is a 12th generation Lean/Maclean.

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