Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Plumber

William married Annie McFarlane in 1867. Annie (daughter of Thomas McFarlane and Helen Beattie) was born in 1847 in Debtford, London, Middlesex, England; died on 6 Mar 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Anne McFarlane
• Alt. Birth: 1847

Notes:

(Research):Wendy Laing Family Web Site on MYHertiage says she was counted at the Census Apr 2 1911 in Durham, England.

Notes:

FSID LHTV-YLR

Thomas married Helen Beattie on 22 Oct 1840 in Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland. Helen was born in 1811 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 2 Oct 1871 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ellen Beattie
• Alt. Birth: 1821

Notes:

FSID LHTV-YPN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John McFarline
• Occupation: Weaver
• Alt. Birth: 1783
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1784

Notes:

1 - 79 Ancestry.com trees. Preferred parents seem to be David McF (1745-1807) & Helen McEwen (b.1739). Can find no records that confirm that connection.
Can find no OPR records for a marriage or children for a couple with those names.

2 - Only one Scotland's People return for John b. Leith parish 1770-1788.
Surname, Forename Parents/ Other Details Gender Date Parish Number Ref Parish
MCFARLINE, JOHN
HUGH MCFARLINE/ELIZABETH WILSON FR2013 (FR2013)
M
19/05/1776
692/2
60 497
Leith South

3 - Name John McFarline
Sex Male
Christening Date 19 May 1776
Christening Place South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
Father's Name Hugh McFarline
Mother's Name Elizabeth Wilson
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQM6-QYM

3 - John McFarlane -born circa 1784/6 in Edinburgh, and died in Melbourne 1867) He appears to have been a sailor, confectioner and finally a weaver. He then moved with his wife Margaret (nee Leishman) a daughter of a Fifshire fisherman to Cupar, F ife. They stayed there for the next 50 years. They later moved to Australia to settle with their children's wives & families in 1852, arriving 29 April 1853, into Port Phillip Bay, Victoria on the ship 'Wonderer' He was listed as 'confectioner' o n the ship's manifest! They had 13 children.
[E-mail from Terrance forwarded from Wendy Laing rec: 17 Jul 2015]
FSID LHTV-BG6

(Research):Only one Scotland's People returns for John b. Leith parish 1770-1788.
Surname Forename Parents/ Other Details Gender Date Parish Number Ref Parish Image View
MCFARLINE
JOHN
HUGH MCFARLINE/ELIZABETH WILSON FR2013 (FR2013)
M
19/05/1776
692/2
60 497
Leith South

This couple are obviously using the Scottish naming pattern in which case John's parents would be John and Ann.

There is no birth in Leith at all for a John in 1783 and the one for 1782 gives parents as Duncan and Isabel Ross, names not used for any of the children so unlikely.

There are no births 1780-1785 for a John s/o John & Ann but extending the date criteria gives us a John b. 20 Nov 1771 Edinburgh s/o John and Ann Thomson.

79 Ancestry.com trees. Preferred parents seem to be David McF (1745-1807) & Helen McEwen (b.1739). Can find no records that confirm that connection. Can find no OPR records for a marriage or children for a couple with those names.

John married Margaret Leishman on 11 Aug 1802 in Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Margaret was born in 1784 in Falkland, Fifeshire, Scotland; died on 27 Mar 1864 in 165 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

FSID 97MK-6NB

(Research):http://www.myheritage.com/site-217002911/wendy-laing-family