Andrew McLellan
Andrew McLellan – grandson
Andrew McLellan was born in Stirlingshire Scotland in 1799, and after becoming widowed in 1843, he became the sole breadwinner and carer for his four small children, James, Janet, Agnes and Alexander.
In 1852 the family boarded the ship "Ticonderoga" for emigration to Australia, along with 700 other passengers, on what was to become a most frightful journey.
Within a month, 100 people had died from an outbreak of Typhus. Conditions on board were appalling, and the fever spread with hardly a family escaping death or illness.
On arrival at Port Phillip heads the ship was quarantined at Pt Nepean and it was sometime before Andrew and his family were able to resume their life.
Andrew’s daughters Janet and Agnes were employed by Alexander Balcombe at the "Briars".
Janet later married Samuel Sherlock, and Agnes was to marry John McRae, and they also settled in Mornington.
The McLellan family outside their home c.1890
Andrew himself purchased land at Moorooduc facing Eramosa Road. It was bounded by "Annesleigh", Bungower Road, 3 Chain Road and Derril Road, and it was originally named "Spitalhill" – it was later known as "Pine Hill".
It was said that it took him two years to fence the property. Together with his sons James and Alexander and their wives, Andrew farmed the property until his death in 1877.
Alexander McLellan married Margaret Jenkins, daughter of Adam and Mary (Campbell) Jenkins in 1863, they had seven children. One son, Adam, was to become a Member of the Legislative Council, and another, Andrew, became a well known local businessman and councillor.
After Margaret’s early death in childbirth, at the age of 39, Alexander married Eliza Millar in 1881 and had two children.
