The amalgamation of three of the district's largest Scottish pioneer families, the Eastons, Patersons and Murrays, into one clan group will be one step closer following a function at the Wingham Golf Club on Saturday, April 11.
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It was the Eastons of Belbora who encouraged their friends the Murrays to migrate in the early 1840s.
The Murray migration of 1848/50 consisted of a widow, Isabella Murray,her nine sons and one daughter. The daughter Agnes married Hugh Paterson of Krambach and a generation later three Easton sons married three Murray daughters. Both families remarried again into the Paterson fold.
For over thirty years the Easton Paterson Association and the Murray Clan Society have been conducting separate annual gatherings with the vast majority attending both, due to the close family links and a shared appreciation of their Scottish heritage.
The coming dinner, at which all three families are encouraged to attend, will be addressed by well known Nabiac historian and author Stuart Weller, also a member of an early pioneering family.
The Haggis will be piped in by John Andrews and addressed by clan commissioner Warwick Murray, who during the evening will also recite two famous Robbie Burns poems, "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon" and "My Heart's in the Highlands".
Piper Andrews will also accompany accomplished highland dancer Christine Waugh.
Christine, who not long ago moved with her family from the metropolitan area to Wingham, is not only regarded as a quality highland dancer but is also a drummer with the Wingham Pipes and Drums.
The three course dinner at $40 per person will commence at 6.30pm and bookings should be made with Dorothy Murray on 6557 0125.
