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Murdoch McLENNAN (also spelled MACLENNAN) was born Mar 14, 1825 at Stornoway, Scotland.
In 1847 he signed on with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a Contract Labourer. Sailing aboard the chartered ship Westminster, he arrived that year at York Factory on Hudson Bay.
In 1848 twenty men (including Murdoch MACLENNAN) and four boats were sent ahead from York Factory on an overland expedition to search for FRANKLIN who had disappeared in the Arctic in 1845..[1].
On June 28 RAE, as second-in-command to Sir John RICHARDSON (1787-1865) caught up with their men at Methy Portage. On Aug 3 they reached the mouth of the Mackenzie, and from there they searched the coast for FRANKLIN as far east as Cape Kendall in Coronation Gulf. Leaving their boats at Icy Cove, they traveled overland to northeast Great Bear Lake, where an advance party had built Fort Confidence to serve as their winter quarters. RICHARDSON then returned to Britain after delegating John RAE to continue the search. On June 7, 1849, RAE set off with six men up the Dease River to reach the mouth of the Coppermine on July 14. By September they had arrived back at Fort Confidence before continuing on to Fort Simpson and the Mackenzie River.
On Apr 13, 1864, Ann Margaret passed away on Apr 13,1864. At that time her children would have been Christina (age 8), James (age 6), Roderick (age 4), William (age 3) and Donald (3 months old).
Around 1867 Murdoch remarried to Annie BIRD, the 19 year old daughter of Isabella Sophie GIBSON & James BIRD (1824-1892).
Children by Margaret SUTHERLAND:
Children by Annie BIRD:
He passed away about 1916
Very good bio with lots of history Red River Ancestry, https://www.redriverancestry.ca/McLENNAN-MURDOCH-1825.php
A HBC Northern Department Servants’ Engagement Registers record for 1847 and 1852 as a laborer https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/name_indexes/hbc_northern_department_servants_engagement.html
The Murdoch McLennan Story, author unknown http://nickcoleman.net/homepages/treedata/books/The%20Murdoch%20McLennan%20Story.pdf?msclkid=126d505ca5a111ecb95ede9a707d762d
Final resting https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98715838/murdock-mclennan?msclkid=326a6ca3a5a011ec91fa19f54e51c35c
University of Manitoba local histories collection, Selkirks 75th anniversay, pages 43 full story https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2370050#page/22/mode/1up
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