Bean Family History by WJB
Physician to one of the King Charles.
The Mac Duffs one of whose daughters married a Bean are one of the prominent clans with whom our own Royalty have married. (the late Duke of Fife)
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff who was an East Indian Judge when he retired to Colchester (about 1896) and lived and died at London Park, he was then very image of our Father a year or two before he died. It is from the Duffs that the occasional auburn head of curly hair crops out.
Sir Mount Stuart had it, our Father, Gerty's boy and John Bean of Australia alike.
I. It was a mistake to say that there was another John this John was father to Alexander, our Great, Grandfather - he may have had estates in Banff, but I