Dorothy Clingan married Frederick Morris at St James Church Sydney in 1921
About Our Clingan Ancestors
A small biography, known as a Micro-Bio, has been prepared for direct ancestors of the Clingan family and their spouses. These related ancestors include members of the Dick, Biggs, Campbell, Clayphon, Ronald and Emery families. Each Micro-Bio is based on verifiable sources, documents and citations obtained from official sources. Access to each small biography is available from the Clingan tab at the top of this webpage.
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Which Clingan Family?
Many people belong to the Clingan Family. The surname Clingan is not unique to our family and includes many groups and individuals most of whom are not actually related us or to each other. Australian phone books reveal many of these unrelated individuals with the same surname. For example, a search of whitepages.com.au earlier this year revealed 43 results nationally for the surname Clingan. Similar names such as Clingen, Clinhan or Callingham were not included in the search. As far as I know only one, or possibly two of these people, are likely to be related to our family.
Any attempt to document the ancestral relationships of these 43 families would have created a confusing and inaccurate mishmash of information.
Our Family Ancestor is William Clingan
Our objective is to clearly identify those people with the surname Clingan who are our direct ancestors. To meet this criteria we know that they must have Irish or Scottish heritage and been related to William Clingan (1824-1885) and Esther Dick (1838-1892), or their children.
About William:
On his way to the Bendigo goldfields, William arrived in Melbourne in 1854 accompanied by his first wife Elizabeth and son. They lived in Victoria where they had another five children. In the early 1860’s they moved to Sydney and had another child. William’s wife Elizabeth died in 1865 and he remarried; his second wife Esther bore him six children.
William Clingan’s second wife, Esther Dick, is the direct ancestor of our branch of the Clingan family in Australia. William’s first wife Elizabeth Cowden is not a direct ancestor but is included in the following chart.
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