Hugh Robertson McLaren

Male26 May 1926–February 1996

Brief Life History of Hugh Robertson

When Hugh Robertson McLaren was born on 26 May 1926, in South Africa, his father, Walter Patrick Fairrie McLaren, was 33 and his mother, Agnes Maud Ethel Shaw Stewart, was 31. He died in February 1996, at the age of 69.

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Family Time Line

Walter Patrick Fairrie McLaren
1892–1971
Agnes Maud Ethel Shaw Stewart
1895–1981
Stewart Glendinning McLaren
1923–2013
Hugh Robertson McLaren
1926–1996

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    World Events (8)

    1934

    Age 8

    South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.

    1936

    Age 10

    Black voting rights revoked in Cape. Black land ownership expanded, but still restricted to 13 percent of land.

    1949

    Age 23

    Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Labhrainn ‘son of Labhrann’, Gaelic form of the personal name Lawrence .

    History: This is the name of a Scottish clan that appears to have two distinct origins. One group traces its ancestry to Laurence (Gaelic Labhrann), Abbot of Balquhidder in Perths in the 13th century. The other group claims a historical association with the island of Tiree in the Hebrides.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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