THIS Sunday August 9 will see the third reunion of the McClymont descendents of this district.
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There are potentially hundreds of people descended from early pioneering man William and his wives, Sarah Carter and Anne Butler.
William McClymont was one of the earliest white settlers in the region, after his stepfather Henry Carmichael had been the first surveyor in the Manning Valley.
Carmichael established the horse and heifer stud "Warwiba" on the south bank of the Manning River and also bought a block of land "Bundacree" at what is now Nabiac.
The Carmichael/ McClymont family came to the district from a base in the Hunter Valley at Seaham.
William's father James McClymont received a grant of 3000 acres of prime land on the Williams River in the early 1820s.
William's mother Agnes, (nee Ralston) would bring the small children up from there through Gloucester by the Bucketts Way in the horse and cart.
They were always accompanied by the Aboriginal guide Midgee Brown.
When it came time for William to marry he was first of all in a relationship with an Aboriginal woman, Sarah Carter.
They had one child, Sarah Jane who became the matriarch of a very large family.
Descendants include the Dates, Morris, Latimore and Hill families.
William's second wife Anne Butler was the daughter of an unknown man, John Butler, and a local Aboriginal woman who was known as Matilda.
There is an idea that Butler was a mixed race African from Jamaica who had arrived as a free man in the colony.
The families descended from them include the French, Fenning, Riley and McClement families.
This early family is to be celebrated as an example of the multicultural mix of the early Australian colonies.
The reunion is a time for family members to meet and greet each other and to gather more information about their origins and their identity.