MACLANACHAN, JAMES (1799?-1884), settler and politician, was born near Muirkirk,
County Ayr, Scotland. He was 'respectably educated' and early acquired a complete
knowledge of livestock. Indentured to James Robertson whom he had known in
Scotland, he sailed for Hobart Town in the Lusitania and arrived on 29 October
1821. Maclanachan's agreement ended in 1824 and he was granted 100 acres (40 ha)
of summer marsh at Hollow Tree near Black (Abyssinia) Tier, but sold it when he
became manager of a property at Salt Pan Plains near Ross. At St David's Church,
Hobart, on 9 March 1826 he married a widow, Sarah Reddenbury; they had no
children.
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