Conservation Plan Addington Cemetery - Christchurch City Libraries
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ROW P No. 291<br />
McLEAN<br />
<strong>Conservation</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> for <strong>Addington</strong> <strong>Cemetery</strong><br />
Allan McLean was born about 1822. He was one of<br />
the children of Mary McLEAN and Alexander<br />
McLean,<br />
a farmer‐fisherman who lived on and<br />
drowned<br />
off Laghmor, a town on the Inner<br />
Hebridean Island of Coll.<br />
In 1840 the widow brought her family to Australia<br />
where the brothers, John, Allan and Robertson<br />
prospered as carriers, merchants and gold‐buyers.<br />
In 1852 they took up a run near <strong>Christchurch</strong>.<br />
Robertson returned to Scotland. John and Allan<br />
had runs in Canterbury and Otago. Laghmor was<br />
near Ashburton. In 1866 the McLeans acquired<br />
Waikakahi near Waimate.<br />
Allan McLean reluctantly left his land and<br />
never returned. He purchased a five acre<br />
property with frontages on Manchester and<br />
Colombo Streets, <strong>Christchurch</strong>, and had R. W. ENGLAND draw up plans for a<br />
23,000 square feet three‐storey kauri‐built Jacobean‐style house. It was considered<br />
the largest wooden residence in New Zealand. This was ‘Holly Lea’, holly being the<br />
McLean’s plant badge.<br />
He died at Holly Lea on 12 November 1907.<br />
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