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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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