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Walter Clark Buchanan
1838 - 1924 (86 years)
Generation: 1
1. Walter Clark Buchanan was born on 20 Jun 1838 in Kilmodan, Glendaruel, Argyll, Scotland, UK; was christened on 1 Jul 1838 in Kilmodan, Glendaruel, Argyll, Scotland, UK; died on 19 Jul 1924 in Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand. Other Events:
- Alias: Clark Walter
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Walter Clarke Buchanan was born on 20 June 1838 at Auchenbreck in the parish of Kilmodan, Argyllshire, Scotland, the son of Donald McChananich, a farmer, and his wife, Janet Clarke. (He was baptised under his father's name, McChananich, the Gaelic version of Buchanan.) Walter was educated at the parish school of Glendaruel and at Greenock Academy. At the age of 18 he emigrated to Australia and spent six years as a stockman in Victoria.
After moving to Otago, New Zealand, about 1863, Buchanan and a partner, John Ferguson, found work carrying and stock-dealing on the Otago goldfields. In 1865 they moved to Canterbury and rented a farm, but the gold discoveries of that year lured them to the West Coast where they engaged in packing and ran a store in Hokitika. Two years later Buchanan returned to Canterbury and used a Halswell farm largely as a base for further stock trading.
About 1871 Buchanan shifted to the North Island. In 1873 he raised a
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