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"She also entered the Sisters of Lorreto. She was known as Sister Mary Columbiere. She died about 1927 in Kankakee, Illinois. Bothe Aunt Julia and Aunt Florence were teachers in the elementary school system."
From Memoirs of Viola Jane McEwen, 1996. 		McFarland, Florence (I7854)
 
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(1154) Agnes Durnars, d/o Mary , b. 3, 2, 1803, d. 5, 30, 1885. 1st m. 5, 3, 1821, to David McKnight, b. 5, 30. 1798, d. 4, 20, 1824. They resided in Clarkville, Mercer Co., Pa., and had two children ; 2nd m. to Thomas McFarland, b, 1794, near Harrisburg, Pa., d. 10mo. 1862, son of Robert McFarland and .Martha Burnside. They resided in Hartford Tp., Trumbull Co., Ohio, and had three children :

3062. Melinda McKnight. b. 2, 12, 1822 m. Archibald McFarland.
3063. Mary McKnight, b. 3, 9 , 1824, m. Jacob Kepner. .

3064. Thos. F. McFarland, b. 4. 13, 1828, { m1. Parthenia Leslie m2. Alice B. Brockway.}
3065. Amelia McFarland, m. Martin Wilson.
3066. Phebe McFarland, m. Andrew McDowe1l.
[Attachment to e-mail from Holly Stevens rec: 9 Apr 2017] 		Dumars, Nancy Agnes (I21566)
 
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1 - 18d. Capt. William MacFarlane, who was born circa 1673 in Scotland, and married Miss Govan of Buchapel, daughter of ___ Govan of Buchapel, but died without surviving issue.
(Chapter 1: The barons of Arrochar)

2 - The fourth son, William, also an officer in the army, married but left no surviving issue.
(History of Clan MacFarlane by James MacFarlane 1922)

2 - 23 August 1755 Alexander McFarlane will names uncle William McFarlane of Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland; mother Helen Spottiswood and brother John Spottiswood of Spottiswoode, Berwickshire, Scotland; cousin Andrew McFarlane, St. Mary's Parish, Jamaica; widow of Robert McFarlane, late shopkeeper in Salt Markett St., Glasgow; cousin Duncan McFarlane; brother Walter McFarlan of Scotland; brother William McFarlan of Edinburgh (Jamaica Wills, 30:72).
(McFarlane Chronology Scotland (with a few early American & Jamaican records)
[http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/fin/aaa-0059.html ]

3 - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LZ8N-3VM tries to link this William, husband of Janet Barr, as son of Andrew MacFarlane of Ardess 18th of Arrochar & his second wife Jean Campbell.
This appears to be a bad connection as their son William dsps aft. Aug. 1755.

I have added Janet Barr as a second wife pending further investigation. The dsps may relate to his first wife.-Ed. 		Macfarlane, Capt. William of Dunbar (I14132)
 
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1 - 20e. Duncan MacFarlane, Gentleman, who was born circa 1735 at Rowchoish in Craigroystan, Buchanan Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and died in Scotland in 1783 (buried on Inchcailleach in Loch Lomond, Buchanan Parish). One source states that he spent time on Jamaica, if so, he returned to reside at Croch Coille near Ardess in Buchanan Parish, and later on Inchfad in Loch Lomond, Buchanan Parish. Duncan married (banns 13 March 1756, Buchanan Parish) Katharine MacGregor, sister of Duncan MacGregor (born 1749; died 28 October 1815) from Rowchoish.
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, chapt. 5 - 25e p3]

2 - 23 TS This I'll defend (per J G Smith, Strathendrick 101) This is the Appointed burrying place of Duncan M'FARLANE and Katharine M'GRIGOR in Inchfade and their children 1783 shield, saltire engrailed between four roses (for McFARLANE) supported by two armed highlanders.

24 (at head of 23) Duncan McFARLAN & Kathren McGRIGOR in Inchfad, da Christie d 22.11[1783] 18
[ Buchanan-Inchcailloch churchyard MI ]

3 - Duncan, Katherine and most of their offspring are buried on the Isle of Inch Cailleach [in Loch Lomond]
[ Macfarlane of Balmaha tree rec 29 Mar 2008 ]

4 - The ruins [of the church ] show that it was a small and narrow building standing east and west. Near the spot where the high altar stood, a fine old dressed stone six feet four inches long, is lying in the grass. From its shape it is probably the lid of a stone coffin. All the graves with tombstones are to the west of the church, and, counting the enclosed burying place of the Mitchells in Arrachymore as one, there are twenty-three memorials of the dead still in existence. There used to be more. Some were removed to the New Buchanan churchyard. Many are now over-grown by the turf and are invisible, and doubtless many a good man and woman were laid to rest with nothing above them save the green sod.
The names of M'Gregors and Macfarlanes predominate, but not to a very large extent. Among the few interesting stones is one called " The Templars' Grave." No one knows why. There is no lettering on this old stone, but cut into it is a sword with is on the hilt. It lies north and south immediately to the west of the Mitchell's enclosure, and was probably removed from its original position when Arrachymore formed his family burying place in 1778. In the Mitchell enclosure many of this well-known race are buried. To the south of it is a curious old stone. It has a cross incised upon it, with a sword lying on the cross. Towards the bottom of the stone there is still visible :
1695 c
WMA
Close to the west end of the church is a fine large stone on six pillars. It bears the motto
IN GIW ANQ SPAIRE NOT
above the M'Gregor coat of arms ; under these is this inscription :
HERE LIES GREGOR M'GREGOR OF THAT ILK WHO ENDED THIS
LIFE ON THE 9 DAY OF FEB
RWARIE 1623 AND OF HIS
AGE 32.
A little further off is another interesting old stone on pillars with this motto :
THIS ILL DEFEND
above a Macfarlane coat of arms, under which is cut :
THIS . IS . APPOINTED . FOR
THE . BURRYING . PLACE . OF
DUNCAN . M'FARLANE . AND KATHARINE . M'GRIGOR . IN
INCHFADE . AND . THEIR . CHILDREN . 1783.
[ from Strathendrick and its inhabitants from early times THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF BUCHANAN p101 ]

2 - Inchfad "The Long Island"
Ownership: Private Height: 25 Meters Length: 1.35 Kilometers
Illicit whisky stills have long had a reputation around the Loch, after the arrival of a Government cuter in the mid nineteenth century this ended the trade. Inchfad however became the home of a registered distillery. You can still see the ruins on the island to this day, Inchfad distillery was run by an ancestor of the MacFarlanes of Balmaha who today run the island mail service and boat yard. A canal was built to minimize the distance that the raw materials for the whisky had to be man handled, the canal has recently been re-furbished and is approximately 1/4 mile long. There are two houses on Inchfad, a modernized bungalow which served as the original farmhouse and a wooden house used as a holiday home.
[ http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchfad.html ] 		McFarlan in Inchfad, Duncan BY31787 BY31788 (I14111)
 
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1 - 53rd Regiment of Foot
Formed as the 55th Regiment of Foot [1755]
Renumbered 53rd Regiment [1757]
Arrived Quebec [May 1776]
Surrendered at Saratoga [Oct 1777]

2 - Miss Margaret Elizabeth, elder daughter of the above John, sworn at Aberdeen on 29 May 1827 in which she "depones that Major James Macfarlane (grandson of Andrew of Ardess, the 18th Chief) was Cousin German of the deponants' s grandfatherWilliam, the 21st Chief)." Thus the House of Ardess at the death of Robert, the 24th Chief, became successors to the title of Macfarlane of Macfarlane and heirs male of the ancient House of Lennox. This Major James of Ardess was therefore the 25th Chief and his eldest son, Duncan (if he survived his father), the 26th laird.
Major James had three sons, but as according to the testimony of the Miss Macfarlane of Macfarlane already referred to, they all to the best of her knowledge, died without leaving ; heirs male (the two younger sons did. not marry), the line again failed.
[History of Clan Macfarlane Vol. II (manuscript by James Macfarlane]

3 - James, eldest son of Duncan, like his father, adopted the army as his profession and ultimately attained the rank of Major. On 13 August 1754 he married Jean Forbes, a daughter of Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran and had a family of three sons and two daughters, Duncan, William, James, Henrietta and Maria Susannah.
At the time of his marriage James was a Lieutenant in Beauclerk's Foot. The conversion of the Regiment into the 53rd of the line was completed early in 1756 and James was appointed one of the first captains (30 December 1755).
He was promoted Major as from 30 August 1768. In the spring of 1776 the Regiment was sent to assist in the relief of Quebec. Major James MacFarlane's name still appeared; in the Army List of that year, but had been deleted and that of Lord Balcarres substituted under date of 9 December 1775. The obvious inference is that Major James died or retired on or before that date, and too late, in 1775, for the alteration to be made in the Army List for 1776.
He certainly died before the middle of 1782 as in an obituary notice in the Aberdeen Journal and in the record of her Will, Jean Forbes, who died on 15 August 1782, is described as "widow of Major James MacFarlane of the 53rd Foot".
In some ms notes in the possession of Major W Lachlan Forbes, evidently written in 1849, James is referred to as "Son of Duncan, third son of Andrew MacFarlane of that Ilk".
As to the family of Major James and Jean Forbes, we are indebted to the researches of Major W Lachlan Forbes, who has published the following:
"At Aberdeen the Twenty Ninth Day of May eighteen Hundred and Twenty Seven Years. In presence of William Kennedy esquire Sheriff Substitute of Aberdeenshire. Miss Margaret Paton, 'being solemnly sworn and interrogated' as to the family of Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran, Bart., and Lady Forbes his wife, one of the Skenes of Skene, Depones that their daughter 'Jean married one of the family of MacFarlane of MacFarlane.'
Another witness; Mrs Catherine Leslie, depones that she recollects hearing of the death of one of Mrs MacFarlane's sons but she cannot say which of them, and she has not heard of any of them being alive for the last forty years and upwards'.
A third witness, 'Miss Margaret MacFarlane residing in Dundas Street, Edinbr. who being solemnly sworn Depones that she always understood from her Aunt who is now dead, that Major James MacFarlane was married to a daughter of Sir Alexr. Forbes of Foveran. And Depones that the said Major James MacFarlane was Cousin German of the Deponent's Grandfather (William, 21st Chief). Depones that they left three Sons and two Daughters. That the eldest Son went abroad much more than forty years ago and has never been heard of, and the two other Sons died unmarried, and that it was never heard of that the Eldest son who went abroad was married or left issue. Depones that one of the Daughters married a Mackenzie and went to the West Indies with him more than thirty years ago, and the Deponent has not heard of her, for many years and never heard of her having any Family, and the Deponent has not heard of the other Daughter, and has every reason to believe that she is dead without issue, and that the three Sons before refered to would have been heirs male to the Family of MacFarlane failing the Deponent's Uncle (Presumably Robert - Ed). And all this is Truth as the Deponent shall Answer to God." (signed) "M. E. MacFarlane"
As Miss MacFarlane of MacFarlane was the person most likely to have accurate knowledge of her immediate kinsmen, these statements on oath are almost conclusive that the issue of Major James, in respect of heirs male had died out.
[History of Clan Macfarlane Vol. II (manuscript by James Macfarlane chapt. 26]

4 - Macfarlane, Major James, of the 53d Regiment of Foot 9 Jan. 1781 and 23 Aug. 1782 See also Forbes, Jean.
(Commissariot of Edinburgh.- REGISTER OF TESTAMENTS)
[http://archive.org/stream/scottishrecordso03scotuoft/scottishrecordso03scotuoft_djvu.txt]

5 - James seems to have made a new will after the death of his wife.-Ed
Surname MACFARLANE,
Forename JAMES
Date 23 / 8 / 1782
Description MAJOR IN THE 53RD REGIMENT OF FOOT
Type TD (TESTAMENT DATIVE)
Court EDINBURGH COMMISSARY COURT
Reference Number CC8/8/125
(Scotlands People-Legal records - Wills and testaments) 		Macfarlane, Maj. James in the 53rd Regiment of Foot (I14094)
 
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1 - Andrew died fighting against the French in the War of the Spanish Succession, at the Battle of Malplaquet on the French/Belgian border.

2 - The Battle of Malplaquet was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession that took place on September 11 , 1709 between France and a British–Austrian alliance (known as the Allies).
The British and Austrians were led by John_Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy , with a contingent of Dutch troops, while the French were commanded by Marshal Villars and Marshal Louis Franois Boufflers. Each side had about 90,000 troops, and were encamped within cannon range of each other near the Belgian border. The Austrians attacked at 9 am, pushing the French back into the forest behind them. The Dutch broke off to attack the French right flank and were defeated with heavy casualties, but they distracted Boufflers enough that he could not come to Villars aid.
Villars was able to regroup his forces, but Marlborough and Eugène attacked again and forced Villars to retreat by 3 pm. The Allies had suffered so many casualties in their attack that they could not pursue him. By this time they had lost 20,000 men, twice as many as the French. It was the bloodiest battle of the war, and prevented the Allies from moving on towards Paris .
Retrieved from "<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Malplaquet>" 		Macfarlane, Major Andrew (I9888)
 
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1 - Apparently this "younger son" went to Jamaica (possibly to join his cousin, Alexander, third son of John the 19th Chief, his father's eldest brother) for we have the statement (see House of Ardess Chapter 26) that he was home in Edinburgh in 1764 and intended to return to Jamaica in the spring of 1765.
From Miss Margaret's statements it might reasonably be inferred that this Duncan died without leaving a son. The Alexander mentioned above was Miss Margaret's grand uncle and if the younger Duncan, as we have suggested, joined Alexander in Jamaica, Miss Margaret would know of his family affairs through her grand uncle, Alexander, with whom her other grand uncle Walter, the Antiquary, and her grandfather, William, were apparently in close touch.
[History of Clan Macfarlane Vol. II (manuscript by James Macfarlane]

2 - 23 August 1755 Alexander McFarlane will names uncle William McFarlane of Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland; mother Helen Spottiswood and brother John Spottiswood of Spottiswoode, Berwickshire, Scotland; cousin Andrew McFarlane, St. Mary's Parish, Jamaica; widow of Robert McFarlane, late shopkeeper in Salt Markett St., Glasgow; cousin Duncan McFarlane; brother Walter McFarlan of Scotland; brother William McFarlan of Edinburgh (Jamaica Wills, 30:72).
(McFarlane Chronology Scotland (with a few early American & Jamaican records)
[http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/fin/aaa-0059.html ]

3 - On 23 November 1764, he was in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and was said to be planning to return to his plantation on Jamaica in the Spring of 1765. Four of his sons are said to have followed him to Jamaica. Sometime later he and his wife, Jean, are said to have returned to Lochlomondside where they lived with their eldest son, Walter at Glen of Luss farm, Luss Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Duncan spent his last days alone in Kilmaronock Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland before finally being found dead in the snow in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire.
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane Chapt 5 - 19b]

4 - Duncan, the younger son of Duncan (I). It would seem that this Duncan emigrated to Jamaica and returned to Edinburgh in 1764. A letter dated 23 November in that year written by a member of the Erin's family, (also named Duncan) to his father contains this reference to [this] Duncan:
"There is just now in town a cousin of the Laird of Macfarlane (Walter, 20th Chief ), son to Captain Duncan, come from Jamaica. He goes back in Spring."
Our information ends here. It is for the clansmen in Jamaica to bridge the gap, if it can be spanned from 1764 to 1928. A letter to The Daily Gleaner of Jamaica elicited no adequate response.
[History of Clan Macfarlane Vol. II - a manuscript by James Macfarlane]

5 - Captain Duncan the fifth son had two sons, Captain James and Duncan, but we do not know, as stated above, whether his son Duncan, who was alive in 1764, left a family.
(History of Clan Macfarlane by James Macfarlane 1922) 		Macfarlane, Duncan (I14087)
 
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1 - Assumed to be the Jane daughter of John McFarlane & Helen Anderson as they are the only McFarlanes buried in Moray .-Ed.

2 - Jane McFarlane
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 1920
BURIAL Lossiemouth Cemetery, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland
MEMORIAL ID 184137647

Spouse: Farquhar John
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184137647/jane-mcfarlane] 		Mcfarlane, Jane (I14984)
 
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1 - Battle of Malplaquet,
This took place in northern France, on the border with Belgium, north of the village of Malplaquet on the 11th September 1709. In August 1709 Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy took Tournai and moved on to besiege Mons. Marshal Villars, was ordered to raise the siege, and with an army of 80,000 men, took up a strong position. Marlborough advanced with 110,000 allied troops. Villars was wounded in the battle and Boufflers, who had taken command, eventually fell back on Le Quesnoy, having lost 17,000 men to the Allies' 25,000.

2 - In 1708 Marlborough and Eugene by winning a great victory at Oudenarde, took Lille and finally drove the French back to within their borders. Further attempts at peace negotiations failed, and the imperial forces in 1709 won a very costly victory at the Battle of Malplaquet, with the loss of many lives. Lord Orkney himself had nearly his entire regiment massacred at a French entrenchment, while Marlborough and Eugene were still reeling from their losses. Another account has this to say about events at Malplaquet:
..."it was under very changed conditions from Blenheim when Marlborough met the troops of Louis at Malplaquet. France was well-nigh worn out by the prolonged war. Famine within her borders, military disaster without, had caused her imperious ruler to look anxiously for peace. To this end his craftiest Ministers sought by offers of individual advantage to detach the Allies from the pact. Their efforts failed. The Alliance held fast, and demanded such humiliating conditions that Louis was obliged to renew the struggle. On the other hand, the political situation in England was such that Marlborough felt the necessity of achieving some victory that would justify the continuance of the war. Had he consulted only himself, he would have welcomed a cessation of hostilities, but he knew that France must be further stricken if the peace was to be enduring. In September, 1709, the capitulation of Douai to the Allies, and the approaching investment of Mons, brought the hostile armies closer together. The French, to the number of 110,000 were under the courageous and capable Villars, with whom was Marshal Boufflers, the brave defender of Lille. Marlborough commanded much the same strength of various nationalities with his tried comrade and friend Prince Eugene. Villars encamped in a strong position between two woods near the little village of Malplaquet. The Allies were drawn up opposite to him. For two nights and a day, the French general was allowed to strengthen his position by digging trenches and clearing his front, till early on the morning of the 11th September the Allied troops were led against him, the soldiers expressing their contempt at being "obliged to fight against moles". Villars believed in his trenches and filled them with infantry, posting his cavalry in the rear. The disposition of the Allies was a frontal attack, with a threat to enfilade the enemy's left. Led by Prince Eugene and Marlborough the line advanced against the French left and centre. Several times it was beaten back, but the attack was fiercely renewed. Half an hour after the battle had opened the young Prince of Orange, acting without orders, flung himself against the right of the trenches, only to be repulsed with a loss of 2,000 men. Although the Allies had not made much headway their onslaught on the flanks had withdrawn all the infantry from the centre, leaving the French cavalry exposed. Instantly Marlborough turned his cannon on the horsemen, following up the fire with a cavalry charge headed by the Prince of Auvergne. The charge had to be driven home no less than four times before the French gave way, but in the end the line was pierced. The French retreat was orderly, the Allies being too exhausted for pursuit. The cost to the victors was 18,000 killed and wounded; to the vanquished 14,000. Writing of the battle many years afterwards, Bolingbroke said: " A deluge of blood was spilt to dislodge them, for we did no more at Malplaquet."
[http://www.geocities.com/ancasta1/spanish_wars.htm ] 		Macfarlane, Lt. Archibald (I9884)
 
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1 - George McFarlane or MacFarlane is my ggg-grandfarther. He immigrated to Canada and married Ellen Maude Langford on September 28, 1904 in Ottawa, Ontario.
[http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.mor.general/154/mb.ashx]

2 - George McFarlane
BIRTH 1 Oct 1875
DEATH 30 Jun 1911 (aged 35) Haileybury, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
BURIAL Kinneddar Graveyard, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland
PLOT Ki394
MEMORIAL ID 202951049

Occupation : GARDENER Place of Birth : DRAINIE Place of Death : HAILEYBURY BUCKIE TOWNSHIP NIPISSING COUNTY ONTARIO CANADA Spouse's Name : ELLEN MAUDE HOPKINS-LANGFORD
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202951049/george-mcfarlane] 		Mcfarlane, George (I15000)
 
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1 - He is said to have followed his father, Duncan, to Jamaica.
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane - Chapt. 5 - 20c]

2 - I have the author's notes for the History of Clan M'F in my attic. The author, James Macfarlane, received two letters from your Pollard cousins in 1913 which gave the Rev. James's father as James (the latter whom my cousin seems to have conlated with James son of Duncan). The letters show your first James (died 1797) as having two older brothers: one, who went to America or Canada; and another, who went to India and made a fortune. The letter also says that their father's name was unknown.
[E-mail from Terrance Gach MacFarlane to Scott MacFarlane cc'd to me 6 Mar.2011] 		Macfarlane, William (I9977)
 
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1 - He may have died on 24 January 1797. He is said to have served as a soldier in Jamaica and to have later resided at Earn in the Barony of Ruskie in Menteith near Doune, Perthshire
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane Chapt 5 - 20d]

2 - I thought that James son of Duncan [CC139 grandson of Andrew of Ardess18th Baron, 15th chief] and this James were the same man before the yDNA test results showed that they were not.
I have the author's notes for the History of Clan M'F in my attic. The author, James Macfarlane, received two letters from Pollard cousins in 1913 which gave the Rev. James's father as James (the latter whom my cousin seems to have conflated with James son of Duncan).
The letters show the first James (died 1797) as having two older brothers: one, who went to America or Canada; and another, who went to India and made a fortune. The letter also says that their father's name was unknown.
[E-mail from Terrance Gach MacFarlane to Scott Macfarlane Aust. cc'd to editor 6 Mar 2011] 		Macfarlane, James (I14118)
 
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1 - I researched her Manerva McFarland and can find no connection to any of the known McFarlands in the area.
(Note from Mary Helen Haines CMW genealogy chair on CMW #796 member genealogy form rec: May 2022)

2 - Although information for Manerva McFarland Hughes can be verified, I am not 100% sure that Andrew McFarland was indeed her father, as there is scant information on him.
(Note from CMW member #796 on CMW genealogy form rec: May 2022)

3 - FamilySearch One World Tree shows parents as Andrew Mcfarland (1790-1840) & Emma Pardoe (b.England) who married 7 Feb 1826 Buildwas, Shropshire, England.

4 - The Andrew McFarland that was in the area was in VA before coming to TN and before that was not in England.
(E-mail from Mary Helen Haines CMW genealogy chair) 		McFarland, Manerva "Minnie" ManM01 (I17452)
 
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1 - I think I have found 2 independent census records for William's son Colon (or Colin). This is important because William's son Robert died before the census asked about parentage. The 2 census records I found (1875 State of Minnesota and 1880 Federal) list the place of birth of Colin's father as Scotland. So this is the first paper trail I have that tells us that William did immigrate to America.
Perhaps William followed his uncle to America, or perhaps they traveled together.
[E-mail from Richard Becker cc'd to editor 6 Mar.2011]

2 - From 2 census records (1875 and 1880) but not verified:
Colin McFarland, b 1815, NY. Father's birthplace: Scotland.
The reason I believe this is the "right" Colin M'F is because I know that Colin lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin with his mother after they both moved from NY in the mid 1800s. I have the obituary of Colin's mother stating these facts. The above census record was taken from a town in Minnesota, only 200 miles from Fond du Lac. There are no other Colin M'F in census records anywhere near this location. This Colin did have a wife and children. I won't give you those details yet until I try to verify this is the right Colin.
I also am working on finding information on Robert and Colin's brother William.
[E-mail from Terrance Gach MacFarlane to Richard Becker cc'd to editor 7 Mar.2011] 		MacFarland, Colin (I9955)
 
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1 - In September 1739, when the independent companies of the Highland Watch, or Black Watch, were formed into the Highland Regiment (soon thereafter the 43rd Regiment, later the 42nd Regiment, and now The Black Watch, The Royal Highland Regiment), he was one of the original officers as a captain-lieutenant, but he retired in 1744.
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane Chapt 5]

2 - Duncan the fifth son of Andrew of Ardess, was a captain in the British Army. He married a French lady and had two sons, James and Duncan. One of the original officers of the regiment, when the six independent companies of the Black Watch were formed into the 43rd Highland Regiment in 1739 was a Captain-Lieutenant named Duncan Macfarlane. He was attached to the Company of George Grant of Ballindulloch and retired in 1744.
[History of Clan Macfarlane Vol. II (manuscript by James Macfarlane]

3 - The Black Watch - The Formation
The design of rendering such a valuable class of subject available to the state by forming regular military corps out of it, seems not to have entered into the views of the government till about the year 1729, when six companies of Highlanders were raised, which, from forming distinct corps unconnected with each other, received the appellation of independent companies. Three of these companies consisted of 100 men each, and were therefore called large companies; Lord Lovat, Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell, and Colonel Grant of Ballindalloch, were appointed captains over them. The three smaller companies, which consisted of 75 each, were commanded by Colonel Alexander Campbell of Finab, John Campbell of Carrick, and George Munro of Culcairn, under the commission of captain-lieutenants. To each of the six companies were attached two lieutenants and one ensign. To distinguish them from regular troops, who, from having coats, waistcoats, and breeches of scarlet cloth, were called Saighdearan Dearg, or Red soldiers; the independent companies, who were attired in tartan consisting mostly of black, green, and blue, were designated Am Freiceadan Dubh, or Black Watch, from the somber appearance of their dress.

As the services of these companies were not required beyond their own territory, and as the intrants were not subjected to the humiliating provisions of the disarming act, no difficulty was found in forming them; and when completed, they presented the singular spectacle of a number of young men or respectable families serving as privates in the ranks. "Many of the men who composed these companies were of a higher station in society than that from which soldiers in general are raised; cadets of gentlemen's families, sons of gentlemen farmers, and tacksmen, either immediately or distantly descended from gentlemen's families, - men who felt themselves responsible for their conduct to high-minded and honorable families, as well as to a country for which they cherished a devoted affection. In addition to the advantages derived from their superior rank in life, they possessed, in an eminent degree, that of a commanding external deportment, special care being taken in selecting men of full height, well proportioned, and of handsome appearance.

The duties assigned to these companies were to enforce the disarming act, to overawe the disaffected, and watch their motions, and to check depredations. For this purpose they were stationed in small detachments in different parts of the country, and generally throughout the district in which they were raised. Thus Fort Augustus and the neighboring parts of Inverness-shire were occupied by the Frasers under Lord Lovat; Ballindalloch and the Grants were stationed in Strathspey and Badenoch; the Munros under Culcairn, in Ross and Sutherland; Lochnell's and Carrick#s companies were stationed in Athole and Breadalbane, and Finab's in Lochaber, and the northern parts of Argyleshire among the disaffected Camerons and Stewarts of Appin. All Highlanders of whatever clan were admitted indiscriminately into these companies as soldiers; but the officers were taken, almost exclusively from the whig clans.

The independent companies continued to exist as such until the year 1739, when government resolved to raise four additional companies, and to form the while into a regiment of the line. For this purpose, letters of service, dated 25th October 1739, were addressed to the Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, who was appointed to the command of the regiment about to be formed, which was to consist of 1000 men. Although the commissions were dated as above, the regiment was not embodied till the month of May 1740, when it assembled on a field between Taybridge and Aberfeldy, in Perthshire, under the number of the 43d regiment, afterwards changed to the 42d, but still bearing the name of the Black Watch. "The uniform was a scarlet jacket and waistcoat, with buff facings and white lace, - tartan plaid of twelve yards plaited round the middle of the body, the upper part being fixed on the left shoulder ready to be thrown loose, and wrapped over both shoulders and firelock in rainy weather. At night the plaid served the purpose of a blanket, and was sufficient covering for the Highlander. These were called belted plaids from being kept tight to the body by a belt, and were worn on guards, reviews, and on all occasions when the men were in full dress. On this belt hung the pistols and dirk when worn. In the barracks, and when not on duty, the little kilt or philibeg was worn, a blue bonnet with a border of white, red and green, arranged in small squares to resemble, as is said, the fess chque in the arms of the different branches of the Stewart family, and a tuft of feathers, or sometimes, from economy or necessity, a small piece of black bear-skin. The arms were a musket, a bayonet, and a large basket-hilted broadsword. These were furnished by government. Such of the men as chose to supply themselves with pistols and dirks were allowed to carry them, and some had targets after the fashion of their country. The sword-belt was of black leather, and the cartouch-box was carried in front, supported by a narrow belt round the middle".

The officers appointed to this regiment were:
Colonel: John, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, died in 1748.
Lieutenant-Colonel: Sir Robert Munro of Foulis, Bart., killed at Falkirk, 1746.
Major: George Grant, brother of the Laird of Grant, removed from the service by sentence of a court-martial, for allowing the rebels to get possession of the castle of Inverness in 1746.

Captains:
George Munro of Culcairn, brother of Sir Robert Munro, kiled in 1746.
Dugal Campbell of Craignish, retired in 1745.
John Campbell, junior, of Monzie, retired in 1743.
Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart., retired in 1748.
Colin Campbell of Ballimore, retired.
John MUnro, promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel in 1743, retired in 1749.
Captain-Lieutenant Duncan Macfarlane, retired in 1744.

Lieutenants:
Paul Macpherson.
Lewis Grant of Auchterblair.
John Maclean of Kingarloch and John Mackenzie (both removed from the regiment in consequence of having fought a duel in 1744)
Alexander Macdonald.
Malcolm Fraser, son of Culduthel, killed at Bergenop-Zoom in 1747.
George Ramsay.
Francis Grant, son of the Laird of Grant, died Lieutenant-General in 1782.
John Macneil.

Ensigns:
Dugal Campbell, killed at Fontenoy.
Dugal Stewart.
John Menzies of Comrie.
Edward Carrick.
Gilbert Stewart of Kincraigie.
Gordon Graham of Drains.
Archibald Macnab, son of the Laird of Macnab, died Lieutenant-General, 1790.
Colin Campbell
Dugal Stewart
James Campbell of Glenfalloch, died of wounds at Fontenoy.

Chaplain: Hon Gideon Murray.
Surgeon: James Munro, brother of Sir Robert Munro.
Adjutant: Gilbert Stewart
Quarter-Master: John Forbes.

In 1740 the Earl of Crawford was removed to the Life Guards and Brigadier-General Lord Sempill was appointed Colonel of the Highlanders.
[http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/bwatch/bw1.htm ]

3 - 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch 1725.04.24 Independent Highland Companies - four companies raised to police Highlands, commonly called the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch 1729 two additional companies raised 1739.10.25 Earl of Craufurd's Regiment
formed by regimentation of existing six coys and four new coys; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
1739.10.25 Lt-Gen. John (Lindsay), 20th Earl of Crawford
1741.01.14 Brig-Gen. Hugh (Forbes), 12th Baron Semphill
Postings of the regiment in the time of Capt. Duncan. as Earl of Crawfurd's Regiment of Foot (formed by regimentation of independent companies in the Scottish Highlands (mustered at Aberfeldy May 1740)
1739 Scotland
1743 London
1743 Flanders
[http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/042-751.htm ]

4 - The major battle of the Flanders campaign was the battle of Dettingen, at which Capt. Duncan would have seen action.
"In early 1743 the Pragmatic Allies were at a loss how to use their army against the French. Finally, late in the campaigning season and at George II's insistence, the Pragmatic Army march south to Frankfurt am Main and occupied the area to the West of Mainz on the Main River. The King intended that the army's presence should influence the election of the new Archbishop of Mainz, an elector in the Holy Roman Empire and therefore of importance in the affairs of Hanover.
The Pragmatic Army marched from Flanders during May 1743 and encamped at Aschaffenburg, around the village of Klein Ostheim. A large French Army under the Duc de Noailles occupied the South bank of the Main to the West.
The generals were; the Earl of Stair, in nominal overall command, the Duke D'Ahrenburg and Marshall Neipperg commanding the Austrians and General Ilton commanding the Hanoverian contingent.
On 19th June 1743 King George II, the King of England, joined the army, amid a flurry of celebrations and salutes. He brought with him a considerable retinue, conveyed by an enormous column of carriages and some 600 horses that paralysed the local roads for days, and his younger and favourite son, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, a major general in the army. Over the next few days George attended church services and functions in Mainz in anticipation of the election of the new archbishop.
The situation of the Pragmatic Army deteriorated dramatically when the French cut the route by the Rhine and Main Rivers by which the army received supplies from its Flanders base. There had been no proper supply of bread for a week, when finally on 27th June 1743 King George ordered the retreat to begin; West along the road to Hanau and Frankfurt and then North to Flanders.
The road lay along the north bank of the Main River. Within 3 miles, King George II's army would pass through the village of Dettingen, where several marshy brooks flowed into the Main.
As the Pragmatic Army marched towards Dettingen, advanced parties reported that the French occupied the village, blocking its path. During the night the French, commanded by the Duc de Grammont, had crossed the river, using bridges of boats across the Main, and held the village and the marshy ground between Dettingen and the hills in strength.
The presence of the French took the Pragmatic Army entirely by surprise. How could such a large force have been in complete ignorance of the presence of the enemy on its own side of the river within 10 miles of its camp?
Preparing to give battle, the British, Austrian and Hanoverian troops formed line; the Main River on the left and the wooded Spessart Hills on the right. The regiments took from 9am to midday to form up. This extraordinary length of time must have been due to the inexperience of the regiments and the difficulty of moving from a column of march into battle line.
No doubt there was considerable anxiety at the predicament in which they found themselves. The Duc de Noailles' plan was, while the Duc de Grammont held the line of Dettingen and the streams preventing the Pragmatic allies from continuing their march, to hurry a section of his army along the south bank of the Main and cross at Aschaffenburg in their rear. They would be caught between the two forces and perhaps forced to surrender; King George becoming a French prisoner.
The French batteries on the south bank began the battle, opening fire across the river as the marching French troops cleared their front. The bombardment was directed at the British cavalry moving along the North bank
It is said that de Grammont's clear orders were to stay in Dettingen and force the Pragmatic Army to attack him. If this is so he disobeyed. As the British, Hanoverian and Austrian completed their line the French advanced out of Dettingen to the attack.
There is little reliable information on the form of the battle or on the formation adopted by the Pragmatic troops. It would appear that British regiments were in the front line, but in what order is not clear. At an early stage French cavalry, the Maison du Roi, attacked the British cavalry by the river. The French were driven back, apparently with significant loss.
As the British regiments formed to face the French in Dettingen they watched Noailles' troops on the far bank marching towards Aschaffenburg. After a hurried consultation the Pragmatic commanders dispatched the British and Hanoverian Foot Guards in haste back towards Aschaffenburg.
The French assault had all the hallmarks of extreme confusion, possibly a spontaneous and undisciplined advance that De Grammont did not order. The cavalry charge was followed by a French infantry attack on the Pragmatic line of foot, the French appearing to come out of Dettingen pell mell and in some confusion.
The French foot were repelled and, panic stricken, hurried back through Dettingen, recrossing the Main by the bridges of boats,. One of the bridges collapsed and many French troops are reputed to have been drowned.
No attempt seems to have been made to follow up the repulse of De Grammont's force. In due course the march was resumed and the Pragmatic Army continued its way to Hanau, passing within a half mile or so of the confusion at the French bridges of boats.
One of the principal French regiments of foot in the attack from Dettingen was the Garde Francaise. This regiment is reputed to have been particularly quick to recross the Main; many of its soldiers being thrown into the river by the bridge collapse; so that the regiment acquired the nickname of "Les Canards du Main". Hence the French word "canard" meaning an insult.
In every battle there is a process of working out what happened and in many instances awkward features are glossed over or rewritten. Dettingen is a particularly difficult battle to fathom. The British Army had not been in a major continental war for 25 years. There were few officers or soldiers with significant fighting experience. Contemporary authorities show how amateurish were the training systems, such as they were, particularly for the mounted regiments. There are clear references in the authorities to British cavalry regiments (particularly the King's Horse and the Blues) bolting through the British infantry line during the battle, due to inadequate horsemanship.
The lack of any pursuit may well be due to the confusion created by the French attack and the inadequate training of the time.
It is hard to reconcile the low British casualties with the bombardment by 50 French guns across the river into the British flank, a couple of hundred metres away at most. It may be that the guns were masked for longer by the passing French troops than the descriptions of the battle indicate.
Casualties:
British: 15 officers killed, 250 soldiers killed, 327 horses killed. 38 officers wounded, 520 soldiers wounded, 155 horses wounded.
Hanover: 177 killed, 376 wounded.
Austria: 315 killed, 663 wounded.
French casualties: 8,000 (not a reliable figure but the best available)
Follow-up: Once the battle was over the Pragmatic Army continued its retreat to Hanau and in due course returned to its bases in Flanders. The British casualties were left on the battlefield for the French to look after if they felt inclined.
Regimental anecdotes and traditions:
At the beginning of the battle it seemed that the French threat was to Aschaffenburg. The Hanoverian General Ilton dispatched the Hanoverian and British Foot Guard to the rear of the army. To their indignation these regiments took no part ine battle, for which they blamed Ilton. There was no love lost between the British and the Hanoverians. General Ilton protested that his action in sending them to the rear had 'preserved' them. The officers of the Foot Guards labeled Ilton the "Confectioner".
Cornet Richards of Ligonier's Horse (7th Dragoon Guards) rescued the regiment's standard.
Dragoon Thomas Brown rescued the guidon of Bland's Dragoons (3rd Hussars) and was knighted by George II.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochaw warned his Royal Scottish Fusiliers not to fire until they could "see the white's of their e'en."
George II is said to have called the 31st Foot the "Buffs" during the battle. It was pointed out to him that they were not in fact the "Buffs", although they wore buff facings like the 3rd Foot, but were a newly raised regiment. The King is reted to have called out, "Well done the Young Buffs then."
The Horse Guards are said to have played "Britons strike home" as they charged.
The Duke of Cumberland was wounded by a bullet in the leg during the battle. He was troubled by this injury for the rest of his life.
George II's horse bolted during the battle. He is said to have sheltered under an oak and to have presented an oak leaf to the soldiers who looked after him. The Cheshire Regiment claims this honour. However they were in garrison in Gibraltart the time.
The King was not the only one who had trouble controlling his horse. The Blues and the King's Horse are reputed to have bolted through the Royal Scots Fusliiers.
Among those who took part were:
- George August Elliott, the defender of Gibraltar during the 7 year siege in the Bourbon War of 1777, becoming Lord Heathfield,
- Lieutenant James Wolfe, appointed in 1759 Major General in Canada and capturer of Quebec
- Lieutenant Jeffrey Amherst, appointed in 1759 to command in America and capture French Canada.
Dettingen is of considerable importance in British history almost solely because of the presence of the Sovereign. Handel wrote a Te Deum and an anthem in celebration of the victory.
[http://britishbattles.com/battle_of_dettingen.htm ] 		Macfarlane, Capt. Duncan (I14124)
 
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1 - It appears Alexander's son Thomas became a grocer and then established a manufacturing enterprise making preserves in Baillieston (part of Glasgow now) that was in existence till the 1950s.

2 - In memory of
Thomas MacFarlane
Of Lussknowe Baillieston
Who diedat Kilcreggan
22nd July 1918

Erected by
the employees of
Rhinsdale Preserve Works
Baillieston
(MI - Old Monkland Cemetery)

3 - "MACFARLANE.- At Ardsloy, Kilcreggan, on the 22nd inst., Thomas Macfarlane (of Macfarlane, Paton & Co. Ltd., Baillieston).- Funeral on Thursday, 25th., curt., from Messrs Wylie & Lochhead's, 96 Union Street, Glasgow, at 2.30 p.m. to Old Monkl
and Cemetery; friends desiring to attend please intimate to Wylie & Lochhead; this is the only intimation and invitation."
(Death notice -The Glasgow Herald, Wednesday, July 24th., 1918)

4 - Baillieston and Garrowhill - In the 1950s the remaining industries in the immediate Baillieston area began to disappear with the closure in 1956 of the Rhinsdale Preserve Works, the "Jeely Works" in the very heart of Baillieston.
(Modern Times: 1950s to The Present Day: Baillieston by Aileen Smart)
[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSFG07] 		Macfarlane, Thomas ThM03 (I18650)
 
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1 - John MacFarlane 1795 Isle of Lewis who married Anne MacIver (1795) both of Isle of Lewis. Children: Murdock-1829, Margaret-1816, Angus-1819, Malcolm-1825, Margaret - 1832, Frances-1833
Posted by: Kristi MacFarlane Date: February 28, 2003
[ http://genforum.genealogy.com/macfarlane/messages/403.html ]

2 - We have traced our line back to John MacFarlane and Anne McIvor born around 1795. They had 10 children I believe and Murdoch was their son. Murdoch has a son named Angus and Angus had a son named Murdoch and Murdoch was my dad's father. Dad th
ought the family came to Huron Canada in 1841 but I think it was in 1851 during a time when Sir James Matheson took over land and a couple boatloads left from Stornoway (Bruce County history site). We know very little of John but believe he was bo rn in the county of Barvas but don't know any parents names or siblings.
[E-mail from Deanne Thompson rec: 13 Feb 2013]

3 - John Macfarlane and his wife Anne Maciver and family emigrated in 1851 and settled in Huron, Bruce County. John's nephew Malcolm Macfarlane and his wife Marion Macleod and family went with them. (Tolsta Historical website)
[E-mail from Deanne Thompson rec: 16 Feb 2013]

4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron_East,_Ontario shows the old Tuckersmith township in 2001 became part of East Ontario which is part of the Bruce Federal and Provincial Ridings, thus confirming the following two Canadaian records as belongin g to this John.-Ed.

5 - 1871 Canadian census entry for this John
John Mc Farlin in household of John Mc Farlin, "Canada Census, 1871"
name: John Mc Farlin
gender: Male
age: 74
calculated birth year: 1797
country or province of birth: Scotland
marital status: Married
ethnic origin: Scotch
religion: C Presb
census place: 01, Tuckersmithe, South Huron 25, Ontario
page number: 34
line number: 5
house number: 107
family number: 107
film number: 4396748
library and archives canada film number: C-9929
digital folder number: 4396748
image number: 00481

6 - Death entry for this John
John Mcfarlane, "Ontario Deaths,1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
name: John Mcfarlane
event: Death
event date: 26 Nov 1880
event place: Tuckersmith, Huron, Ontario
gender: Male
age: 85
birthplace: Scotland
estimated birth year: 1795
reference number: yr 1880 cn 6177
film number: 1853229
digital folder number: 4173101
image number: 1091 		Macfarlane, John R-M222 JoM11 (I14821)
 
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1 - John McFarlane or MacFarlane also, who married Helen Anderson on March 15, 1862 in King Edward, Aberdeen, County of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. John and Helen had the following children; James, Margaret, Helen, Jane, John, William, George and Bar
bara. All with the exception of James were born in Drainie, County of Morayshire, Scotland.
[ http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.mor.general/154/mb.ashx ]

2 - Burial Plot Ki394 		Mcfarlane, John (I14848)
 
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1 - Marriage. JAMES MC FARLANE AGE 30. TO JANE DUNNE AGE 20. 28-1-1851 @ GORTIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,BODONEY LOWER, OMAGH, TYRONE.
FATHERS. JAMES MC FARLANE & SAMUEL DUNNE.
births.THOMAS 3-10-1864. SARAH 11-10-1866. CATHERINE 14-1-1869. PATRICK 2-1-1870. ALL BORN OMAGH,OMAGH NO.1, TYRONE.
parents. JAMES MCFARLANE/MCFARLAND & JANE DUNN/DUNNE.

2 - I have found record of James and Jane having 10 children in addition to the ones you listed. 2 of which died under the age of 1.
[upright sandstone, with white marble inserts. Large draped urn on top.]

3 - Erected to the memory of James McFarlane, Thornhill, who died 9th Jan 1871, aged 51 years.
Also of James, his father, who died 30th Sep. 1842, aged 64 years.
Also of Mary Anne, his mother, who died 5th Jan 1854, aged 77 years.
Also of Jane Dunn, his wife, who died 8th Jan. 1916, aged 84 years.
{There is also a flat stone lying buried at this grave. It has Patrick McFarlane's name on it.}
(Plot #100- ST. PATRICK'S PARISH CHURCH, LOWER BADONEY, GORTIN) 		McFarlane, James (I14173)
 
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1 - Mary Anne McFarland wife of James McFarland (McFarlane) of Plumbridge, County Tyrone. James & Mary Anne had at least 6 kids: 2 daughters and 4 sons. - Sean (descendant of John McFarlane, via his son James McFarlane and grandson Hugh McFarlane who emigrated to US in 1835)
Mary Anne Clarke married James McFarlane and had 3 kids that I have record of Hugh, Eleanor, and James. I would love to know the other 3 kids. I also have a picture of the grave stone with dates of death for Mary Anne, James, their son James and his wife Jane Dunn.

2 - January 13 1854
On Thursday, the 5th inst., at Lisnacraig [Lisnacreight], near Gortin, MARY ANN, relict of the late JAMES McFARLANE, ESQ., aged 77 years.
Bodoney Lower Parish Death Announcments 1815-69
Deaths recorded in Bodoney Lower Parish, Co. Tyrone, extracted from the STRABANE MORNING POST, LONDONDERRY SENTINEL & LONDONDERRY STANDARD
[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/cotyroneireland.rootsweb.com/thread/275201/] 		Clarke, Mary Anne (I14122)
 
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1 - Name Jas Mcfarlane
Baptism Date 05 Jul 1885
Baptism Place St David's Ramshorn church, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Father's Name Peter Mcfarlane
Mother's Name Eliz Wallace
"Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HR-Y8FG)

2 - My grandfather JWM 1885-1949 (Leather Merchant) was in India, during WW1, he managed the South East India Trading Company and worked closely with the British Government in the supply of leather for the War effort.
(He must have learned about leather from his father Peter) and went out to India as a young man.
He was awarded the OBE for this work/service to the British Empire in 1919.
[E-mail from Wallace Macfarlane rec via MHH 31 Oct 2023) 		Macfarlane, James Wallace OBE (I17102)
 
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1 - Name Peter Mc Farlane
Sex Male
Birth Date 28 Feb 1855
Birthplace Drymen, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Father's Name Peter Mc Farlane
Mother's Name Christina Mc Laren or Smith
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7S1-3ZG)

2 - Peter McFarlane
BIRTH 1855
DEATH 12 Jan 1923 (aged 67– 68) Pollokshields, Glasgow City, Scotland
BURIAL Craigton Cemetery, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
PLOT K 523
MEMORIAL ID 227778520

Certificate No. 25818.
Husband of Lair Proprietor - Elizabeth Wallace or McFarlane.
Died at 27 Maxwell Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Internment - 15th January 1923.
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227778520/peter-mcfarlane]

3 - Name: Peter MCFARLANE
Birth: 28 Feb 1855 Born 4a.m. Drumfrosk,Drymen, Stirling
Death: 12 Jan 1923 27 Maxwell Dr, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Burial: 15 Jan 1923 Craigton Cemetery Plot K523
Occupation: Boot & Shoe Factory Manager
Father: Peter MCFARLANE (1820-1891)
Mother: Christina McLAREN (1817-1886)

From the typed notes of Rev. Leonard Scott husband of Jean Macfarlane -
Descriptive glimpse of Jean's grandfather, Peter Macfarlane, the shoe-maker:
Jean's Aunt Margaret Macfarlane said to Jean: "My father, your grandfather, was a
very fine man, very clever. He took after his mother. He was a J.P., a Magistrate and
Baillie in the Council, and was always helping someone."
Aunt Margaret also sent us an extract from the "Life and Letters of Sir Henry Jones"
by H.J.W. Hetherington, which was sent to her by her cousin Agnes Macfarlane of
Alexandria whose friend had been secretary to Mr. Hetherington and had recognised
that the person described in the following passage was Agnes's Uncle, Margaret's
father, Jean's grandfather.
"Extract from the Life and Letters of Sir Henry Jones:
" Then began a sort of free fellowship amongst the passengers, and an amount of
kindly good will to me which made things pleasant. In my opinion, a combination of
the "professor" and "Sir" was responsible for the interest, fulfilling what one of my
friends once said, that the title would help me to"guide the ship of fools". But that ia a
harsh and false word, for the Americans can be genuinely kind, and they were at
their best with me. We had discussions in the smoking room, hearty and friendly and
also vigorous over tha Panama Bill, the Monroe Doctrine etc, etc.
The first, on which I entered with the least earnestedness, came about me through
my noticing a square-jawed, heavily built, broad shouldered man, a little younger
than myself, with his skin all freckles, and stiff light yellow hair - one who had been
taciturn, and whose forcefulness seemed to betoken the merciless aggressiveness
of a millionaire - speaking at last. He was about the only one who had not made up
to or bowed to me, or otherwise showed kindly interest. "Well" I heard him say,
"you have given your worr-r-rr-rd " (making the r letter growl and rumble), "and you
should just keep it." He was standing like a granite rock for honesty. I struck in with
him with my "wee bit logic", as Annie calls it, and we bacame great friends. He was
no millionaire at all; he was like myself, a "stickit" shoemaker. He had for years made
boots with his hands somewhere in Scotland, and attended night-schools and is at
present head Manager of the shoe making side of the Glasgow Co-operative Stores,
with some 1,500 men under him - a royal block of manhood."
Extract from "The Press' Glasgow Friday January 19th 1923. Late Peter
Macfarlane
Death of former Goven Magistrate, Close of Active Career.

There passed away at Tanoch, Maxwell Drive, Pollockshields, on Friday in his sixty-
seventh year, Mr Peter Macfarlane, J.P., a former magistrate of the Burgh of Govan

and lately manager of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Boot Factory,
Shieldhall. Although he has notbeen much in the public eye for the past few years,
ex Baillie Macfarlane was widely known and that his death was mourned by a wide
circle of friends and associates was made manifest by the large numbers which
attended the funeral to Craigton Cemetery on Monday afternoon.

Mr Macfarlane was not a native of Govan, having been born in the village of Drymen
where he attended the local school. At an early age he began his working life as a
shoemaker and while still a young man he left his native village to find employment
in his trade in Alexandria, near Dumbarton. Subsequently he migrated to Glasgow
where he was married, and in course of time went to Kilmarnock. On his return to
Glasgow he entered the service of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.,
at Dundas Street, as a boot and shoe operative. When the Shieldhall Factory was
built he was transferred thither as a foreman and sometime afterwards was
appointed assistant manager, graduating to the position of manager in 1904, a post
which he occupied with distinction until a little over a year ago when his retirement
was precipitated by failing health.
It is not claiming too much for Mr. Macfarlane's organising and administrative
capacities to say he practically built up the Boot Factory to the high point of efficiency
which it has maintained for many years. Those who know him best agree that he
was an expert in his own particular line of business, and that there were few men
who could boast such intimate and extensive knowledge of all the phases of boot or
leather trades. To a remarkable business acumen he added a thoroughness and
resoluteness of purpose, characteristic it may be of his race which marked his entire
career and his dealings with men of all stations.
HIS PUBLIC SERVICES
Although for the most part of a quiet, reserved disposition, taking no part in the latter
years of his life at least in public affairs, Mr Macfarlane will be remembered as one of
the most efficient Councillors ever on the old Town Council. He began his municipal
career in 1901 when he was returned as a representative of the Seventh Ward and
when he retired in 1911, the year previous to annexation, he had attained to the
dignity of the Burgh Magistracy and had held some of the most important offices in
the Council.
Even before he entered the Council he had interested himself in certain branches of
social service and previous to the annexation of South Govan he had been largely
responsible for the bringing about of certain improvements and innovations
pertaining to the cleansing of the district. On entry into the Town Council he quickly
proved he was a dedicated acquisition to the administrative strength of the body, and
as a sub convener and latterly convener of the Cleansing Committee he brought
many improvements and increased the efficiency of the department. He was the
prime mover in the scheme which led to the Town Council acquiring Mid Drumoyne
Farm as an adjunct to the Cleansing Department. He had some experience. also, of
buying and selling of horses, the benefit of which he gave repeatedly to the
Cleansing Department
By no means the least noticeable of his services were those given as convener of
the Finance Committee, and indeed he
is remembered by many as Treasurer Macfarlane. In this department of the civic
work he brought all his keen business perception to bear and he filled his office with

acceptance alike to the ratepayers and colleagues and with credit to himself.
On the bench he was stern but just and amply upheld the dignity of his office.
He retired from the Council, as has already been stated in 1911 and since that time
devoted his energies entirely to his business, disappearing from the ken of the
general public. Until about four years ago he resided in South Govan. He is survived
by a widow and a grown up family of five sons and four daughters.
THE FUNERAL
The funeral, which took place to Craigton Cemetery on Monday afternoon, was
attended by a large number of friends and relatives. His former colleagues were
represented by ex- Provost McKechnie and ex- Baillie Munro, while the old Burgh
officials were represented by Mr. T. Dykes. Nine of the twelve directors of the
S>C>W>S> attended, while practically the whole of the staff of the Factory were
present. Morrison Street was also well represented. Numerous floral tributes entirely
filling one of the motors were sent by those who had been associated with him in
active life. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Reverend C. Scott
Burdon of Dean Park Parish Church.
A PULPIT REFERENCE
At the forenoon service in Dean Park Parish Church on Sunday, the Reverend C.
Scott Burdon made symapetic reference to the death of ex-Baillie Peter Macfarlane.
The church, said Mr. Scott Burdon had suffered a severe blow by the death of Mr
Macfarlane who was an elder and a trustee. The minister asked the congregation to
remain standing while the "Dead March" was played on the organ by Mr. Geo
Brooksby.
(CMW #977 James Wallace Macf attachment Report 007, PM PersonSheet.pdf via MHH rec 31 Oct 2023) 		Mcfarlane, Peter (I17064)
 
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1 - Name Peter McFarlane
Sex Male
Christening Date 6 Jul 1820
Christening Place Aberfoyle, Perthshire, Scotland
Birth Date Jul 1820
Father's Name John McFarlane
Mother's Name Jane McGregor
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1XV-M44) 		McFarlane, Peter PeM02 (I17019)
 
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1 - Name Robert Wallace MacFarlane
Sex Male
Birth Date 29 Sep 1891
Birthplace Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Father's Name Peter MacFarlane
Mother's Name Elizabeth Wallace MacFarlane
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTF4-MHT)

2 - Name Robert Wallace
Sex Male
Baptism Date 08 Nov 1891
Baptism Place Govan-Dean Park, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Father's Name Peter Macfarlane
Mother's Name Elizabeth Wallace
"Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HR-LSZG) 		MacFarlane, Robert Wallace (I12001)
 
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1 - Name: James Mcfarling
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 Nov 1759
Birthplace: SAINT CUTHBERTS, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Mcfarling
Mother's Name: Mary Hunter
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11986-8 ,
System Origin: Scotland-ODM ,
GS Film number: 1066753 ,

2 - "The Rev. Mr. James MacFarlane, who was born circa 1759 in Scotland, and died there on 10 April 1823 at Dunfermline in Fife (buried there in the North Churchyard). According to the 'Annals of Dunfermline' The Rev. James MacFarlane was ordained as a colleague to his future father-in-law The Rev. James Husband, D.D. of the Secession Church in Queen Ann Street there in 1785 and they were still in harness together when The Rev. Dr. Husband, a native of St. Andrews, died on 17 May 1821 at Dunfermline in the seventieth year of his age and the forty-sixth of his ministry (buried in the grave of his famous predecessor The Rev. Ralph Erskine near the south-east corner of the North Churchyard); while the survivor died less than two years later in the sixty-fourth year of his age and the thirty-third of his ministry. He married (22 June 1801, Dunfermline) Miss Grizel Husband (baptised there 23 December 1779; died there 13 May 1816; buried there North Churchyard), daughter of The Rev. Dr. James Husband and his wife Margaret Wardlaw, Gentlewoman. They had issue nine children, two daughters and seven sons:"
[from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane Chapt. 5 - 21a]

2 - Tombstone at Dunfermline Abbey.

3 - I have the author's notes for the History of Clan M'F in my attic. The author, James Macfarlane, received two letters from Pollard cousins in 1913 which gave the Rev. James's father as James (the latter whom my cousin seems to have conflated with James son of Duncan). [CC139 grandson of Andrew of Ardess18th Baron, 15th chief]
The letters show the first James (died 1797) as having two older brothers: one, who went to America or Canada; and another, who went to India and made a fortune. The letter also says that their father's name was unknown.
[E-mail from Terrance Gach MacFarlane to Scott Macfarlane Aust. cc'd to editor 6 Mar.2011] 		Macfarlane, Rev. James (I14148)
 
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1 - second daughter of Sir Alexander Forbes of Foveran, 2nd Baronet.

2 - Forbes, Mrs. Jean, widow of Major James Macfarlane, of the 53d Regiment of Foot 15 Aug. 1782.
(Death Notice - Scottish Record Society) 		Forbes, Jean (I14043)
 
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1 - Surname, Forename Parents/ Other Details Gender Date Parish Number Ref Parish
MCFARLAN, THOMAS
WILLIAM MCFARLAN/ELIZABETH LOCK FR780 (FR780)
M
15/04/1770
644/1
150 187
Glasgow
(Scotlands People]

2 - 1841 Scotland Census (living with son William & his family)
Name: Thomas Mcfarlane
Age: 70
Estimated birth year: abt 1771
Gender: Male
Where born: Scotland
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dunbartonshire
Address: Candorat
Occupation: H L W [Hand Loom Weaver]

3 - The Radical War, also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which had become prominent in the early years o
f the French Revolution, but had then been repressed during the long Napoleonic Wars.
An economic downturn after the wars ended brought increasing unrest. Artisan workers, particularly weavers in Scotland, sought action to reform an uncaring government, gentry, fearing revolutionary horrors recruited militia and the government dep loyed an apparatus of spies, informers and agents provocateurs to stamp out the trouble.
A Committee of Organisation for Forming a Provisional Government put placards around the streets of Glasgow late on Saturday 1 April, calling for an immediate national strike. On Monday 3 April work stopped in a wide area of central Scotland an d in a swirl of disorderly events a small group marched towards the Carron Company ironworks to seize weapons, but while stopped at Bonnymuir they were attacked by Hussars. Another small group from Strathaven marched to meet a rumoured larger for ce, but were warned of an ambush and dispersed. Militia taking prisoners to Greenock jail were attacked by local people and the prisoners released. James Wilson of Strathaven was singled out as a leader of the march there, and at Glasgow was e xecuted by hanging, then decapitated. Of those seized by the army at Bonnymuir, John Baird and Andrew Hardie were similarly executed at Stirling after making short defiant speeches. Twenty other Radicals were sentenced to penal transportation.
Thomas McCulloch, John Barr, William Smith, Benjamin Moir, Allan Murchie, Alexander Latimer, Andrew White, David Thomson, James Wright, William Clackson , Thomas Pike, Robert Gray, John Clelland, Alexander Hart, Thomas McFarlane, John Anderson, W illiam Crawford and the 15 year old Alexander Johnstone were in due course transported to the penal colonies in New South Wales or Tasmania. Peter Mackenzie, a Glasgow journalist, campaigned unsuccessfully to have them pardoned, and publishe d a small book: The Spy System, including the exploits of Mr Alex. Richmond, the notorious Government Spy of Sidmouth and Castlereagh.
Eventually, on the 10th August 1835 an absolute pardon was granted.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_War]

4 - The nineteen Radicals whose ages ranged from the youngest, Alexander Johnston (15) to the oldest, Thomas McFarlane (45), originally sentenced to death, subsequently commuted to transportation to New South Wales were:
Name | Occupation | Location | Penalty imposed
John Anderson | Weaver | Camelon | Life
John Barr | Weaver | Condorrat | 14 years
William Clackson or Clarkson | Shoemaker | Glasgow | 14 years
James Clelland | Blacksmith | Glasgow | Life
Andrew Dawson | Nailer | Camelon | Life
Robert Gray | Weaver | Glasgow | Life
Alexander Hart | Cabinet-maker | Glasgow | 14 years
Alexander Johnston | Weaver | Glasgow | 14 years
Alexander Latimer | Weaver | Glasgow | 14 years
Thomas McCulloch | Stocking-Weaver | Glasgow | 14 years
Thomas McFarlane | Weaver | Condorrat | Life
John McMillan | Nailer | Camelon | Life
Benjamin Moir | Labourer | Glasgow | 14 years
Allan Murchie | Blacksmith | Glasgow | Life
Thomas Pike or Pink | Muslin Slinger | Glasgow | 14 years
William Smith | Weaver | Glasgow | 14 years
David Thompson | Weaver | Glasgow | 14 years
Andrew White | Bookbinder | Glasgow | 14 years
James Wright | Tailor | Glasgow | 14 Years

James Clelland was to be executed along with Baird and Hardie on Friday 8th September, but three days before he was to die, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life in New South Wales.

William Crawford, Balfron, was sentenced with the above but was 'subsequently released' according to 'The Scottish Radicals. Tried and Transported to Australia for Treason in 1820'. John Anderson Jnr., a printer in Glasgow, was 'transported' o n 4 August 1820 to a Government job in the East Indies for the price of his silence. He had prepared the final draft of the 1820 Proclamation and was probably arrested on Friday 7 April 1820 in order that he could not divulge the 'truth' to the Ra dicals.
[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-STIRLINGSHIRE/2008-11/1226450016]

5 - The abortive general rising across the west of Scotland in April 1820 had the air of a movement of desperation rather than one of aspiration. Union Societies of 1819– 20 recruited heavily in the weaving communities of the central belt, Tays ide and Perthshire. In the historiography of the 1820 rising itself, it is those who were "martyred" in the most obvious sense, by giving up their lives, whose names are indelibly associated with events: Andrew Hardie, John Baird and James Wilson . Besides these three, however, nineteen other men were transported for their involvement. They have attracted some attention— notably from the descendants of one of the men (Macfarlane, 1981). It was only in 1993, after a prolonged restoration i n the 1980s, that the names of these transported men were added to the monument that had been raised in 1847 in Sighthill Cemetery in Glasgow (Ellis and Mac a'Ghobhainn, 2001, p. xi). This monument itself, and others, demonstrate that the memory o f 1820 played an important role in political culture and language in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Pentland, 2008). The two men who came back from Botany Bay— Thomas McFarlane and Andrew White— offer useful case studies of how their ow n exile and returns contributed to the continuing "usability" of 1820 in radical politics.

The role of McFarlane was particularly prominent. In contradisctinction to his peers, he was not a young man even in 1820. Born in Glasgow in 1775 or 1776 he had played an active role in the radical movement of the 1790s and was residing in Condor rat at the time of the abortive general rising (Macfarlane, 1981, p. 38). He had been one of the men who had gone with Baird and Hardie to Bonnymuir and had faced and engaged the troops. He also had the dubious distinction of being one of the me n seriously injured in the affray, having sustained a sabre cut across his face. He was transported to Botany Bay for his offences and, after the King granted an Absolute Pardon in 1836, he returned to Scotland in 1839 (Caledonian Mercury, 2 Dec . 1839).

What is interesting is how he was treated when he returned. On 15 January 1840 he was fêted by the Working Man's Association of Airdrie, a Chartist Society, which held its second annual soirée in his honour. The members marched out of Airdrie wit h a band and banners to meet McFarlane in Glenmavis. There were a number of speeches, which were reported in the press, and the public address from the Association amply demonstrated the purpose of the event. Political movements, of course, alway s appeal to the past as well as to the future. Parading veterans is one powerful way of achieving this appeal. The Association reminded McFarlane of his involvement in reform since the 1790s, when he had apparently swallowed a compromising piece o f paper on which was written an illegal oath. Speakers dwelt, however, on his involvement at Bonnymuir, pointing out that he still bore the scar "a convincing proof of the merciful disposition of a Tory government" (Scottish Patriot, 25 Jan. 1840) . Interestingly, all newspaper reports in which McFarlane featured mentioned his scar— both his physical presence and his damaged body served to dramatize the conflict on which radical rhetoric focused. Entertainment at the soirée was provided b y the singing of "Dark Bonnymuir", a composition by one of McFarlane's fellow transportees, Allan Barbour Murchie, which had been published in 1820. The audience was also treated to a performance by the talented Misses Fraser, the daughters of ano ther man who had been "out" in 1820, John Fraser the editor of the True Scotsman (Fraser, 1879, pp. 20– 9). All told, McFarlane's reception was a consummately "1820" event and demonstrates how the memory of the rising was being used within radica l political culture.

This was not the end of McFarlane's involvement in radical politics. 1841 saw an enormous gathering of Chartists in Glasgow to meet Fergus O'Connor, who was visiting the city. "Macfarlane of Condorrat, the aged Bonnymuir martyr" was given pride o f place at the table in the evening sitting alongside O'Connor and was presented with "a handsome ebony staff, silver-mounted, and a sovereign to pay his travel expenses" (Northern Star, 16 Oct. 1841). McFarlane's presence helped to emphasize a ce ntral theme of the rest of O'Connor's visit, during which opportunities were taken not only to mention and draw comparisons with the 1820 rising but physically to escort O'Connor to the sites and relics associated with it. In Stirling, he was take n to the Castle and shown where Baird and Hardie had been executed; he was taken to the dungeon where the prisoners had been held; and he was shown the pikes used by the Radicals, which were held in the armoury (Northern Star, 6 Nov. 1841).

In this way, the return of McFarlane allowed Chartists both to confirm the "Radical War" as a foundational moment and to draw parallels with their own conflict with the state. In newspaper reports McFarlane and earlier radicals were co-opted as th e "pre-cursors of Chartism" or even more simply as "Chartists". McFarlane contributed to the continuing memory of the events of 1820, which would see the monument raised in Sighthill in 1847. Indeed, "the venerable Macfarlane" with his "sabre woun d" was a prominent guest at the dinner commemorating the anniversary of the executions and celebrating the recent erection of the monument (Glasgow Saturday Post, 11 Sept. 1847).

The memory of the events of 1819– 20 could be used in different ways: to support physical force and insurrectionary violence or to justify resistance or as a warning against the dangers of physical force (Pentland, 2008, pp. 153– 7). For it to b e usable at all, however, required a stock of memories, images and relics on which to hang these various interpretations. A returned radical provided the perfect foil. McFarlane clearly was not much of a speaker— there are only a couple of mumble d lines of thanks recorded at dinners in his honour. He was not, however, there to speak. He was far more important as a mute physical relic of the rising, his scar and venerability making him an object to be displayed, a peg on which various inte rpretations could be hanged.
[http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/222]

6 - A group of about 25 men from Glasgow led by Andrew Hardie marched towards Condorrat to meet up with John Baird, with a design to gather a force to march on the Carron Iron Works near Falkirk, and capture the munitions there. Meanwhile Lt Elli s Hodgson of the 11th Hussars, quartered in Perth, set off for Kilsyth via Stirling in order to protect Carron where an attack was expected on the 5th April. The government spies and informers had provided good information, and by 6 o'clock on th e morning of Wednesday 5th April, Baird, Hardie and their followers had reached Castlecary Inn where they stopped briefly for for breakfast before heading on. Troops in Kilsyth got wind of their movements. Lt Hodgson left Kilsyth with 16 Hussar s and 16 Yeomanry troopers. At Bonnybridge they left the main road and made for Bonnymuir to intercept the rebels..

When the two forces met, the radicals started firing. After a few more volleys on both sides, the cavalry flanked the rebels, and the end was swift. Nineteen of them were taken prisoner and confined to Stirling Castle.. . . Lt Hodgson and a serge ant of the 10th Hussars were both wounded, the sergeant quite severely hurt, and four of the radicals were also wounded. Seven firearms and eighteen pikes were captured. Thus ended the battle of Bonnymuir.
[http://www.paperclip.org.uk/kilsythweb/history/1820_Rising/1820_rising1.htm ]

7 - THOMAS McFARLANE
The fact that no trace of Thomas McFarlane has been found in records between the census of 1828 and the time when he received his pardon document in 1839 suggests that he was a quiet, unobtrusive old man, waiting hopefully and patiently for te da ys when the efforts of those in Scotland, who he knew were actively campaigning for a pardon the banished radicals of 1820, were crowned with success.
Being a man of forty five years when transported he was the eldest of the group by five years and his height of five feet four and three quarter inches was just below the average. Although in 1839, when his pardon document was ready fr co llection, he would have attained the considerable age of sixty four, circumstantial evidence suggests that he was then alive in the Colony for on the butt of his Certificate of Freedom, dated 18 December 1827 is the annotation: 'Torn up on his r ecieving a Royal Pardon dated 21st July 1835.'
Thomas McFarlane was born in Glasgow and followed the weaving trade, but apparently he moved to Condorrat for he was residing there with his family in 1820, when he was sentenced to transportation for life because of his involvement in the uris ing. He had a sallow complexion, brown to grey hair and grey eyes.
McFarlane was one of three men too seriously wounded to be moved immediately with the other prisoners from Stirling Castle to Edinburgh Castle. He was not transferred until 28 April so it could well be that it was during the intervening three weks , whilst he was so ill, that his wife took meals to him at the Castle, and even again on his return there, which incident was told by his great grand daughter to her relatives.
In two accounts of events at Bonnymuir Andrew Hardie referred to an old man. As Hardie himself was only twenty six years of age at the time Thomas McFarlane at forty five years might have appeared to him as an old man. This supposition woud b e consistent with Hardie's declaration of 11 April that news of the Cantelon party's decision not to rise was brought by an old man, and he added 'that he does not know the name of this old man, but he afterwards saw him in Stirling Castle wounded . ' As the three men detained at Stirling Castle because of their serious wounds were McFarlane (forty use years), Hart (twenty six years) and Clarkson (twenty one years) it is very likely that the 'old man' was McFarlane.
Hardie's second reference to an old man is in his letter, previously mentioned. When describing the casualties he said, 'Another old man with a frightful-looking wound in his face, so much so that his jaw-bone was seen perfectly distinct'.'s h e had made no mention of an old man earlier in this letter his reference to 'Another old man' must have meant 'another man who was old'; and this man probably was McFarlane.
McFarlane has been traced with three employers between his arrival in the Colony and when the census was taken in 1828.
According to Thomas McCulloch in October 1821 'Thomas McFar lane and Thomas Pink are with the Barrack Master'. This gentleman was Mr. Charles McIntosh, an Ensign in the 73rd Regiment. Less than a year later, in August 1822, McFarlane was asgne d to Mr. Simeon Lord and he was still working for him in 1825, when a muster was taken which shows him as being free by servitude with a sentence of only seven years. This information is incorrect but he is positively identified by the other deta ils given.
When the census was taken in November 1828 McFarlane was employed as a labourer by Thomas Barker, miller of Sussex Street, Sydney. Mr. Barker was also prominent in civic and church affairs. Although no first name is given for McFarlane in te c ensus and his age does not tally with that in his Certificate of Freedom, details of the ship and year of arrival are correctly shown as Speke (2) 1821, and, as there was no other McFarlane in the ship, the information supplied is sufficient to i dentify the individual as Thomas McFarlane, the Scottish Radical.
There is no evidence that McFarlane's family joined him in New South Wales and descendants believe that he returned to Scotland. One grandson, William Macfarlane, who died in Ayrshire on 1 January 1912, claimed that he was taken by his fathr t o meet his grandfather, Thomas McFarlane, at the Port of Leith on his return from Australia. William MacFarlane's obituary mentions that 'Both Mr. Macfarlane's father and grandfather were hand-loom weavers of the old school, his grandfather, Thom as Mcfarlane, undergoing a period of banishment for his political opinions."
In the 1841 census of Scotland a Thomas McFarlane, a hand loom weaver, aged seventy is recorded in the household of a William McFarlane at Condorrat, Dunbartonshire. Following a very exhaust ive search of records based on this informatione autho rs have established beyond doubt that Thomas McFarlane returned to Condorrat between February 1839 when he collected his pardon document and 7 June 1841 when the census was taken, at which time he was living with his son William and family . His death may have ocurred before 1851 for his name does not appear in the census of that year. It seems highly improbable that his date of death will ever be established as unfortunately the burial records of the graveyard at Cumbern auld Church, where he would have been buried, were destroyed in a fire towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Thomas McFarlane and his wife Elizabeth Baird are known to have had at least seven children. The first three were born at Kilsyth in the County of Stirling; their next three children, all sons, were born at Glasgow. Subsequently the famiy mov ed to Condorrat where another son was born in 1809 and they were still there at the time of the uprising in 1820.
His wife Elizabeth apparently died before he returned from Australia, for her name was not in the first census taken in June 1841.
Thus Thomas McFarlane could well have been one of the r adicals of whom Peter Mackenzie wrote, 'Some of the victims joyously returned some to this their dear native land, free-pardoned men'.
Of Thomas McFarlane's descendants many are in Scotland and England, some in New Zealand and South Africa, but in Australia the authors know of no others besides members of their own family. Alastair Macfarlan, gr eat-great-grandson of Thomas the radical, was born in Inverness, Scotland. Ile had no thought of even visiting Australia until in 1936 he met his Australian wife, Margaret, in Penang where he was accountant of a merchant fir m and she was teaching at the Anglo Chinese Girls' School. He decided to settle in Sydney and some time afterwards, by a strange coincidence, he joined an organization founded by Harold Hastings Deering in 1926. I t was not until several years later after Mr. Deering's death in 1965 that he discovered that he too was descended from a Scottish radical of 1820, namely Thomas McCulloch. The authors have two sons, one daughter and s ix grandchildren.
(Alastair Macfarlane in Australia, the author of the book about the 1820 rebellion)

8 - Condorrat Tenants and Residents Association saw several years of community fundraising bear fruit when a special memorial wall was unveiled to mark the memories of its working class heroes. Divided into three sections, this lovingly crafted pi ece of stonework honours a trio of men whose sacrifices will always be remembered in this former mining village.
They are the Radical Weavers, the early trade unionists whose leader JOHN BAIRD was born in Condorrat and whose house lies a short distance away from this memorial wall. Executed in Stirling on 8th. September 1820 for his role in the uprising, h e is commemorated alongside his comrades JOHN BARR, THOMAS MACFARLANE, WILLIAM SMITH and JOHN ALLAN. The wall also honours local members of the armed forces who gave their lives for their country in conflicts throughout the world; and six Condorra t miners who perished in the Auchengeich Disaster 18th September 1959.
The unveiling of the memorial wall was carried out by PROVOST TOM CURLEY and following this, the memorial dedication was given by a local minister and blessed by a local priest then a minutes silence and the piper's lament. Flowers and wreaths wer e laid firstly by CTRA for all three sections, 1820 Society wreath laid by MARION MCMILLAN, Croy Historical Society and JAMIE HEPBURN MSP laid the Scottish National Party wreath followed by two matching bouquets of red and white roses laid by LIL Y LOVE and ANN BAIN on behalf of the 1820 Society. Also simultaneously, many others including relatives of the miners and war dead laid their own personal floral tributes. The Army Cadets and Royal British Legion Scotland also placed their tribute s. 1820 stalwart, CATHIE BROWN from Paisley laid the 1820 Society posy on the saltire draped over the newly erected 'WEAVERS REST' bench positioned immediately opposite the memorial wall and offering a fine view of the memorial to all who care t o sit awhile with their own thoughts. Speeches from PROVOST CURLEY and JOHN BURKE of CTRA prior to and after the unveiling, alongside a presentation to the Provost and also to the stonemasons, brought the ceremony's formal proceedings to a close . Many photographs were taken and a video recording too, highlighting the importance and significance of three different aspects of working life and their place in our history. A buffet and refreshments was enjoyed afterwards in the nearby CONDORR AT ARMS with many still lingering taking in the scene some hours later. An emotional day for many.
(Report by Marion McMillian)
[More photos at http://cranntara.scot/condorrat_2011.html ]

8 - most of the 19 'transportees' remained settled in Australia where, as literate men - unlike the average group of convicts, many of them made significant contributions to the development of the then British colony of New South Wales. Their indi vidual stories are told in a little book by MARGARET and ALASTAIR MACFARLANE, entitled THE SCOTTISH RADICALS - Tried and Transported for Treason in 1820, first published in Australia in 1975 and re-issued in the U.K. (by SPA Books Ltd) in 1981.

Its co-author, ALASTAIR MACFARLANE, was himself a descendant of one of the transported Radicals, namely THOMAS McFARLANE, a Glaswegian by birth - who in 1839, already an old man in his late sixties, returned home to Condorrat in Dunbartonshire. Ac cording to a report in The Stirling Observer on 30 January 1840 McFarlane was subsequently feted by the Airdie Working Men's Association on account not simply of his involvement in the 1820 affair but because of his long association with Radical p olitics which he could trace back to the days of 'MUIR, PALMER and GERALD' of the Friends of the People and the United Scotsmen in the 1790s.
The new plaque in their honour on the Sighthill Monument was the brain-child of ALASTAIR MACFARLANE, the Radical descendant arid coauthor of the only published account of their lives. A native of Inverness, Alastair had himself settled in New Sout h Wales after his marriage in the 1930s, and in his later years following the UK. publication of THE SCOTTISH RADICALS had campaigned by correspondence from his home there for the erection of the new Sighthill plaque. He died, aged 89, in April 19 93, unfortunately without learning that his efforts had finally been successful. In a sense the new plaque is his memorial too.
[https://www.electricscotland.com/history/1820/appendix8.htm ]

9 - Only one returned to Scotland - the weaver Thomas McFarlane (1775-1851) who had been wounded at Bonnymuir and given a life sentence. In 1839, he returned to Scotland staying again in Condorrat, and was buried in Cumbernauld Parish churchyar d in 1851.
[https://hotelsandshore.com/n75ns/paisley-in-a-sentence] 		McFarlan, Thomas in Condorrat 1820 Radical ThM03 (I16082)
 
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1 - The American Line was founded by the seventh and youngest son of Andrew MacFarlane of that Ilk and Arrochar & Ardess, 15th Chief and 18th & 1st Baron. This chapter is based, in the main, on Joe's McFarlands, which was written by Robert McFarland, Esq., with other material from the works of The Hon. Baxter McFarland. The founder was Lieut. Walter MacFarlane, who was born circa 1679 in Scotland, and was killed on 11 September 1709 at the battle of Malplaquet in France. He married with issue (so far as is known) an only child, a son and successor Parlan MacFarlane.
from 'The barons of Arrochar and their cadets' a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane. Chapt. 1 - 18g & Chapt. 7.

2 - The War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713
When King Charles II of Spain died in 1700 he bequeathed his throne and the Spanish possessions in the Netherlands, Italy and the Americas to Philip of Anjou, the grandson of Louis XIV, King of France. The prospect of a virtual union between France and Spain alarmed many European states. Louis further alienated William III by recognising James II's son as England's rightful king. England, Holland, the Empire and Prussia supported a rival claimant to the Spanish throne, Archduke Charles, the younger son of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold. In 1701 they and a number of smaller German states formed the Grand Alliance which was joined by Portugal in 1703. In September 1702 Bavaria allied itself with France and Spain.
Malplaquet
Following his reverses in 1708, Louis XIV sued for peace but the terms offered by the Allies were so harsh that he resolved to fight on. In 1709, Marlborough attacked again, capturing Tournai and besieging Mons. Marshal Villars moved to relieve the fortress and on 11 September the two armies met at Malplaquet. The French occupied a strong defensive position based upon two large woods supported by trenches and redoubts. Although the Allies eventually won the day they lost nearly 20,000 casualties to the French's 12,000. Mons was captured but the scale of the losses at Malplaquet led to criticism of Marlborough at home.
[ http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/pages/spanish.html ]

2 - On Sept. 11, 1709, the combined forces of England and the Holy Roman emperor, led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy met the French army under Marshal Villars. Although the French were forced to retreat, the Anglo-imperial army, attacking strongly fortified positions, suffered more than 20,000 casualties, twice the number of French casualties. The battle was a strategic victory for France as it prevented an allied advance to Paris.
[ http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/Malplaqu.html ]
More possible children but no mothers name given so unable to confirm.

3 -From Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Janett Mcfarlane
christening: 7 August 1716 LUSS,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
father: Walter Mcfarlane

John Mcfarlan
christening: 9 March 1715 LUSS,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
father: Walter Mcfarlan

Marie Mcfarland
christening: 13 April 1712 KILLIN,PERTH,SCOTLAND
father: Walter Mcfarland 		Macfarlane, Lieut. Walter (I14119)
 
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1 marker difference from cadet line over 12 markers.
Lineage published in CMW newsletter Mar 2013.
Married on 30 June 1973
Married at Cheboygan, Cheboygan County, Michigan, USA 		McFarland, Collin Ray RoM03 (I21606)
 
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1782: Tax List for Montgomery County:
William McFarelane with one tithe, 10 horses, 20 cattle. (William dies in 1791 at Round Mountain, Wythe Co. Today that is Bland Co. near Wolf Creek close to town of Bastian.)
Alex McFarelane next to him with one tithe, 1 slave, 2 horses, no cattle, next to Robert Crawford, who married Isabella McFarland.

(This is probably William's son Alexander, born in 1758)

Joseph, Willliam, and Alex are living near Thomas Ingles, Peter Groseclose. 		Crawford, Robert (I26656)
 
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1830 census Cooper Co. MO, p. 216: James Mcfarland, age 30 thru 40. 		McFarland, James (I26004)
 
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1830 census in Whitley Co.
male 30-40, female 30-40, on male 5-10

1840 census in Whitley Co.

1850 census in Whitley Co. Dist. 2, fam. 299
Joseph McFarland, 54, VA
Margaret, 45, VA 		McFarland, Joseph (I21132)
 
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1830 census: Cooper Co. MO, p. 230 has Benjamin Mcfarland age 20 thru 30, on same page as brother William, age 30 thru 40, brother John, age 20 thru 30, and father James age 50 to 60.

1840 census: Haw Creek township, Morgan Co. MO, Image 3/6 is David McFarland, age 30 thru 40, and William McFarland, age 40 thru 50. On next page is Alexander McFarland age 40 thru 49, John McFarland age 30 thru 40, and B.F. McFarland age 30 thru 40.

Proof of children:
1855 Land Deed: 6 Dec. 1855 William M. McFarland age 32) and wife Amanda J. McFarland, along with Samuel H. McFarland and Martha W. McFarland sold to Elizabeth McFarland (age 52) for $100 all right, title and interest in Morgan County, MO, NW of 24-43-19. The grantors were in Jasper Co. Missouri. One year later: 18 December 1856, Elizabeth McFarland, Jacob Self and his wife Elizabeth Self, plus William Ervin and wife Nancy of Jackson Co. Missouri sold to Henry Albers of Morgan for $500 NW of 24-43-19 containing 160 acres.

This land deed was issued to William McFarland Nov. 10, 1841 Doc. 19716, 5th PM, 043N-19W, Sect. 24, 160 acres in Morgan Co. 		McFarland, William (I26391)
 
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1830 census: Cooper Co. MO, p. 230 has Benjamin Mcfarland age 20 thru 30, on same page as brother William, age 30 thru 40, brother John, age 20 thru 30, and father James age 50 to 60.

1840 census: Haw Creek township, Morgan Co. MO, Image 3/6 is David McFarland, age 30 thru 40, and William McFarland, age 40 thru 50. On next page is Alexander McFarland age 40 thru 49, John McFarland age 30 thru 40, and B.F. McFarland age 30 thru 40. 		McFarland, Benjamin Franklin (I26511)
 
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1830 census: Cooper Co. MO, p. 230 has Benjamin Mcfarland age 20 thru 30, on same page as brother William, age 30 thru 40, brother John, age 20 thru 30, and father James age 50 to 60.

1840 census: Haw Creek township, Morgan Co. MO, Image 3/6 is David McFarland, age 30 thru 40, and William McFarland, age 40 thru 50. On next page is Alexander McFarland age 40 thru 49, John McFarland age 30 thru 40, and B.F. McFarland age 30 thru 40. 		McFarland, John (I8452)
 
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1840 census: Osage township, Morgan Co. MO. Image 1/8. Elijah McFarland, male 40 thru 49, with male 80 thru 89, male 15 thru 19, 2 males 5 thru 9. Female 40 thru 49, one 15 thru 19, one 5 thru 9, 2 females under 5.

1850 census: Buffalo, Morgan Co. MO, Image 8/21, stamped 265, fam.657: Elijah 50, Francis 51, Elizabeth 25, Andrew 19, James 16, Telitha 14, Mary 11, Perry 8. Near is fam. 659 William Mcfarland 24, with wife Malvina 24 and child Elijah 1. Fam. 661 is John McFarland 28, wife Margaret 25, Sarah 7, Elijah 5, Francis 3, Elizabeth 1.

1860 census: Osage township, Morgan Co. MO, p. 180, fam. 1220: Elijah 59, TN, land worth 600, pers. prop. 299, Frances 61 KY, Betsy 36, MO, Jane 24, MO, Talitha 22 MO, Mary 21 MO, Perry 18 MO, Sarah 18 TN. (Sarah must be a relative, not a daughter). 		McFarland, Elijah (I27500)
 
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1850 census in Crawford Co. Union township, Indiana, Hiram McFarlin 45, living next to James McFarlin, age 30.

fam. 52 Hiram McFarlin, 45, Ohio
Sarah, 38, KY
Alexander 11, Crawford Co. Indiana
Barbiyan, 9, ditto
James, 7, ditto
Thomas, 5, ditto
Sarah, 1, ditto 		McFarland, Hiram (I26870)
 
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1850 census in Houston township, Adams Co. Illlinois 		McFarland, William Madison (Madison) (I24874)
 
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1850 census in Richland township, Morgan Co. MO. with children Elbert through Robert. 		McFarland, James H (I25924)
 
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1850 census the family is living next to Mary A. McFarland. Lavinia has just died, a few months after birth of youngest daughter. 		Jones, Thomas M. (I25884)
 
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1850 census, Elijah and Matilda are family 305 with no land. Wm. Neal is fam. 302, Mary Neal is fam. 301 		Neel, Matilda "Tillie" (I27287)
 
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1850 census: Williams township, Benton Co. MO
fam. 435: John McFarland, 31 farmer, 240, TN
Catherine 35 TN, Thomas A. 8 MO, James W 5 MO, Mary L. 2 MO, Namch M. 1 MO, Mary Leboi 14 TN, Alexander Gibbs 17 TN. 		McFarland, John (I25911)
 
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1851 Scotland Census
Name: Archibald Mcfarlen
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1839
Relationship: Servant
Where born: King Edward, Aberdeen
Parish Number: 210
Civil Parish: King Edward
County: Aberdeenshire
Address: Coldwells
Occupation: Farmer Servt

1871 Scotland Census
Name: Archibald Mcfarlane
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: John Mcfarlane
Mother's Name: Barbara Mcfarlane
Where born: King Edward, aberdn
Registration number: 210
Registration District: King Edward
Civil Parish: King Edward
County: Aberdeenshire
Address: Cook
Occupation: Carter 		Macfarlane, Archibald (I10106)
 
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1851 Scotland Census
Name: Janet McFarlane
Age: 40
Estimated birth year: abt 1811
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's Name: William McFarlane
Where born: Newmarkland, Lanarkshire
Parish Number: 495
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
Town: Condorrat
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Condorrat
Occupation: Weft Winder Cotton

1861 Scotland Census
Name: Jane Mcfarlane
Age: 65
Estimated birth year: abt 1796
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's name : William Mcfarlane
Where born: New Monkland, Lanarkshire
Registration Number: 495
Registration district: Cumbernauld
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Airdrie Rd
Occupation: Weavers Wife Winder

Assumed to have died before 1881 census as she does not appear with family then-Ed. 		Wilson, Janet (I16107)
 
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1851 Scotland census
Name: Lillias Mc Farlane
Age: 13
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
Relationship: Daughter
Father: Peter Mc Farlane
Mother: Christina Mc Farlane
Gender: Female
Where Born: America, Canada
Parish Number: 477
Civil Parish: Drymen
County: Stirlingshire
Address: Drumfroshk Hs [poss. Drumfork House, Cardross]
Occupation: Scholar

1861 & 1901 censuses have a Lillias b. abt 1838 Irvine, Ayrshire 		McFarlane, Lillias (I11966)
 
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1851 Scotland Census
Name: Mary M McFarlane
Age: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1834
Relationship: Daughter
Father's Name: William McFarlane
Mother's name: Janet McFarlane
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
Parish Number: 495
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
Town: Condorrat
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Condorrat
Occupation: Hand Loom Weaver (cotton)

1861 Scotland Census
Name: Mary Mcfarlane
Age: 27
Estimated birth year: abt 1834
Relationship: Daughter
Father's Name: William Mcfarlane
Mother's name: Jane Mcfarlane
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
Registration Number: 495
Registration district: Cumbernauld
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Airdrie Rd
Occupation: Cotton Weaver

Living with brother Thomas at 1891 census.
1891 Scotland Census
Name: Mary McFarlane
Age: 57
Estimated birth year: abt 1834
Relationship: Sister
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire
Registration Number: 495
Registration district: Cumbernauld
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Airdrie Road 		McFarlane, Mary M. (I10934)
 
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1851 Scotland Census
Name: Thomas McFarlane
Age: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: William McFarlane
Mother's name: Janet McFarlane
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
Parish Number: 495
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
Town: Condorrat
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Condorrat
Occupation: Hand Loom Weaver (cotton)

1861 Scotland Census
Name: Thomas Mcfarlane
Age: 30
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: William Mcfarlane
Mother's name: Jane Mcfarlane
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
Registration Number: 495
Registration district: Cumbernauld
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Airdrie Rd
Occupation: Cotton Weaver

1881 Scotland Census
Name: Thomas McFarlane
Age: 50
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: William McFarlane
Where born: Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
Registration Number: 495
Registration district: Cumbernauld
Civil Parish: Cumbernauld
County: Dumbartonshire
Address: Allans Land South Road East Side
Occupation: Railway Surfaceman 		McFarlane, Thomas (I16115)
 
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1860 census Sugar Creek Township, Cass Co. MO
David McFarland, 37, farmer, MO, with wife Phebe L. McF. 26, MO, and children

1870 census: Virgil township, Vernon Co. MO

1880 census: Virgil township, Vernon Co. MO, p. 18, June 1880
fam. 184: David Mc Farland, 57, MO, KY, KY (Interesting because he says his father was born in KY...makes it hard to reconcile the Rev. Alexander McFarland of Kentucky with the Alexander McFarland of TN, son of James Ray. 		McFarland, J. David (I25417)
 
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1870 census in Cass Co. MO, Pleasant Hill P.O.
Jesse 70 NC
Ann 64 NC
Augustus A 14 MO
John W. 20 MO
wife Virginia 25 PA
Mary A. 11 months MO 		McFarland, Jesse (I25918)
 
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1870 census in Grayson Co. Prec. 4, P.O. Kentucky Town, p. 25 stamp 142, Sept. 1870
fam. 182:
Bradford, J.T. 49, Dr. and Farmer, 800, TN, Eliza 41 TN, Margaret 20 MO, Mary W. 14 Kansas
McFarland, Sarah, 56 TN, Mary 46 TN, Margaret 43 TN 		McFarland, Elizabeth (I25898)
 

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