McClure+Family+History


 * BRIEF HISTORY OF THE McCLURE FAMILY **
 * Mary FOSTER (?) is said to have been the daughter of a country gentleman. She ran off with a groom on her father's estate (presumably Alexander FOSTER) and came to Australia around 1848.

George McCLURE who founded the Australian branch of the family came to Australia around 1864 from Scotland, via Ireland. He married their daughter Elizabeth Foster and they produced ten children, the second one being Ada Amelia born in 1873. Ada was born in a small settlement about 8 miles from Bathurst. She was a sickly baby and her mother carried her into Bathurst township to have her christened fearing that she would die.

The family later moved to Narrandera.

Ada married John ANDERSON and moved to Kogarah in Sydney where they had five children. Ada died in 1951.

Pictured on right is Ada Amelia ANDERSON (nee McCLURE)

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