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| 1651 | To: Ann Eliza Hanley Sargent Dear Sister Anneliza,
John Stewart Hanley
Note: the above letter was written to his sister Ann Eliza (Hanley) Sargent in Ludlow, Vermont. The uncle William is William Henry Stewart b. 1807 Ireland. John told Anneliza to write to Sam. That would be Samuel Hanley Jr of Chatfield, Minn.
Will of Wm Steward I William Steward of the Town of Fillmore County and State of Minnesota being of sound mind and believing in the existence of an Almighty God, and in the uncertainty of life and the certainy[sic] of death, do herey[sic] make and declare the following as my Last will and Testament, to wit – I herey[sic] will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Steward all and singular the use of all my real and personal property in trust for her support and the rearing and schooling of the minor children, with exception of the Kate mare, Brown heifer and the sheep now ary the farm which I dispose of follows, To my son Francis George Steward, I give and bequeath the Kate mare and Brown heifer, To my son Alexander Steward the 13 Sheep, now on the farm, with this condition that he shall give to each of his sisters, to wit, Mary Steward, Rebeca J Steward and Eliza Steward, each a ewe Lamb of this years growth, and I do herey[sic] make and declare this as my Will for the final settlement & distribution of my property[sic] after the decease of my beloved Wife, I will and bequeath both my three sons William A Steward, Francis G Steward and Alexander Steward or the survivor or survivors of them all and singular my real estate situated in the Town of Fillmore to be equally divided between them by division of the Land, or otherwise as they may agree. I also give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Steward the sum of Two hundred Dollars in money and good Feather bed when she shall arrive at the age of twenty one years. To my Daughter Rebeca J Steward the like sum of two hundred Dollars, in money, and a good feather bed when she shall arrive at the age of twenty one years. Also to my daughter Eliza Steward the like sum of two hundred Dollars in money and a good Feather bed when she shall arrive at the age of twenty one years. It is my wish that the above Legacies be paid out of the bulk of my property and all the personal property remaining after the payments of the above Legacies and the shares of my Wife, shall be equally distributed between my three sons, In Testimony I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 6th of March AD1865. William Steward In the presence of H Cartter James Bowers | Stewart, William Henry (I13)
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| 1652 | Aged Lady's Death Birthplace of Coagh (Coke) is split between County Derry and County Tyrone. According to Sheila Morgan, the family bible says County Tyrone. I am not using the name Hannah, which I believe was a result of an error in memory by Sheila Morgan's source, confusing Elizabeth Farrell with a sister-in-law. See my additional notes. | Farrell, Elizabeth (I26)
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| 1653 | Also see notes under William Henry Stewart
John Stewart, born in Scotland 1767, and Mary Lewis, born and died in Ireland. All their children were born in Hershel, Dongel County, Ireland[sic]. | Stewart, John JoSt01 (I24)
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| 1654 | Don invested $17,000 in gen. merchandise store in Mitchell with Clarence [Hudspeth] (1947). Mom needed money to have Linda. Then invested in stock mkt. using Mom's name, lost $7,000. Bought tavern. From my notes from a conversation with Mary, 1970s?
Jim says tavern would have been the Pastime Tavern, Nicollet at Lake. | Stewart, Donald Alexander JoSt01 (I5)
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| 1655 | From Jerry Zimmerman's Ancestry tree: birthplace of Coagh (Coke) in County Derry: "The location of birth comes from her brother James Farrel bible. He born in the County Dary (Londonderry), Town of Coke (Coagh) in 1819."
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| 1656 | Linda says that Mary told her that she (Mary) decided to leave Minnesota the winter that she made Christmas dinner for 20 people and the weather was so bad that nobody could come. Linda says that Mary (and Don? Stan?) worked at the Pastime Nightclub in MInneapolis. | Reynolds, Mary Lee (I6)
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| 1657 | notes from conversation with Doris Stewart in 1970s say he died from "complications" | Stewart, Colonel Alexander J (I11)
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| 1658 | A Family History centering around the ancestors and descendants of James Franklin McFarland and Mary Jane Harper McFarland of Fannin County, Texas in the 1800s-1900s. | Source (S1763)
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| 1659 | a family history that is based on research available at the time. personal collection | Source (S1931)
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| 1660 | A foundation has been established to acknowledge her abilities and to present information to clear her name of the notoriety that surrounds it. See her foundation web site at «u»www.helenduncan.org «/u» 1901 Scotland Census about Ellen V Macfarlane Name: Ellen V Macfarlane Age: 3 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898 Relationship: Daur (Daughter) Father's Name: Archie Macfarlane Mother's Name: Isabella Macfarlane Gender: Female Where born: Callander, Perthshire Registration number: 336 Registration district: Callander Civil parish: Callander Town: Callander County: Perthshire Address: 96 Main St ED: 2 Household schedule number: 36 Line: 10 Roll: CSSCT1901_117 Household Members: Name Age Archie Macfarlane 37 Isabella Macfarlane 32 Margaret Macfarlane 9 Isabella Macfarlane 7 Florence F Macfarlane 5 Ellen V Macfarlane 3 Peter Macfarlane 1 1 - Helen Duncan's conviction for witchcraft during World War II made her a folk heroine. Now to mark the centenary of her birth, a former policeman has mounted a campaign to clear her name. An awful vision: In 1941, Helen Duncan claimed that a British battleship had been destroyed. Hours later the Admiralty received news that H.M.S. Hood, above, had sunk with the loss of 1,418 lives. It could have been some barbarous throw-back to centuries past. Two hundred years ago the woman, swooning and moaning in the dock, would have been sentenced to public scandal in the pillory... while more fearful souls crossed themselves, invoking God's protection from her devilry. But this was 1944 and the crowds thronging the public gallery of the Old Bailey were rational men and women in service uniforms and Utility frocks. Mrs. Helen Duncan was a spiritualist medium from a poor, Scottish, working-class background, reputed to have held seances for the Queen Mother and Winston Churchill. She was the last person to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. The charge against her was 'pretending to raise the spirits of the dead' -- and in war-weary Britain the case made lurid headlines. 'Ghost invited to give evidence on witchcraft trial' trumpeted one newspaper, and: 'Jury may hear voice of spirit guide.' Nineteen witnesses were called to swear that the lady could conjure up the dead; not just in spirit, but in physical form. Among them were a magistrate, a solicitor and one of the best-known journalists of the day. The defence offered to hold a seance as proof of Mrs. Duncan's powers: disappointingly, the jury declined. Today, Helen Duncan is a heroine of the spiritualist movement, and many still believe that her raising of the dead was no pretence. Far from being a charlatan, they claim her powers were a threat to the wartime defence of the realm. To mark the centenary of her birth this year, a campaign has been launched to call for her posthumous pardon. In 1944, there was no shortage of bereaved relatives desperate for some message offering hope and proof of an afterlife. But Mrs. Duncan was no ordinary medium. She claimed that by exuding a luminous substance called ectoplasm from her own body, she could give form to departed spirits which would materialise before their loved ones' eyes. Sceptics said that the 20-stone medium used yards of cheesecloth to simulate the forms of a whole repertoire of spirit friends: from Peggy, the child ghost who sang You Are My Sunshine, to Mrs. Duncan's spirit control, Albert -- a 6 ft 2 in bearded Scotsman who would often speak disparagingly of the medium's husband. Mrs. Duncan was arrested at a seance in Portsmouth. But if the nation was riveted by the sheer entertainment value of her cause celebre, it was also baffled. If middle-aged Helen Duncan was a trickster, why did the authorities exhume this antiquated law to put away an uneducated woman? Why not just charge her with obtaining money under false pretences? Churchill, who was known to be interested in spiritualism, was outraged by the case and wrote to the Home Secretary after the trial: 'Let me have a report on why the 1735 Witchcraft Act was used in a modern court of justice. What was the cost to the State of a trial in which the Recorder was kept busy with all this obsolete tomfoolery to the detriment of necessary work in the courts?' In fact, Helen Duncan's supporters claim that the State' s agenda went far beyond clamping down on a fraudulent medium. She was sentenced to nine months in Holloway, and to this day, her family and others believe that, despite Churchill's opposition, the Government ordered her arrest on grounds of national security. In the months leading up to D-Day there were fears Mrs. Duncan might 'see' and reveal the secret plans for the Normandy landings. And in the climate of war, the authorities were not prepared to dismiss out of hand her claims of other-worldly powers. By early 1944, Mrs. Duncan was well known to the authorities. In May, 1941, Brigadier Boy Firebrace, head of military intelligence in Scotland and later president of the College of Psychic Science, had attended one of her seances in Edinburgh. Later, this level-headed officer described how Mrs. Duncan's ghostly controller, Albert, materialised claiming that a great British battleship had just been sunk. Brigadier Firebrace checked with the Admiralty. Two hours later, he received word that H.M.S. Hood had gone down in the North Atlantic, sunk by Hitler's Bismarck with the loss of 1,418 lives. He also established that, at the time of the seance, not even the Admiralty had known of the disaster. 'From the point of view of the authorities,' said Firebrace, 'Mrs. Duncan was a dangerous person.' Her psychic career could not have been foretold when Victoria Helen Duncan was born in 1897 at Callander, Perthshire, the daughter of Archibald Macfarlane, a roof slater, and his wife Isabella. They were God-fearing people and when Helen first showed signs of her powers, she was soundly slapped. But superstitious neighbours rewarded her with sweets for telling fortunes and visions. Whether for her strange, supernatural gifts, the notoriety she brought on her family, or simply for giving birth to an illegitimate child, Helen was disowned by the Macfarlanes. The only surviving relative of her own generation, her younger sister, to this day never speaks her name. 'Grandma Duncan' s name was taboo,' says her granddaughter, Sheila Downie, 49, a nurse from Stoke-on-Trent. 'The family said she was a witch -- and her mother used to say she'd be burned if she kept on the way she did.' Helen was married to cabinetmaker Henry Duncan before she began -- with his encouragement -- to develop her psychic powers for profit. They had eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood. Mrs. Duncan's first seances were held at home, the latest baby often in a cradle at her feet. On her release from Holloway after nine months' imprisonment, Duncan vowed she would never hold a seance again -- but after the publicity of the trial, she was more in demand than before. In November 1956, there was another police raid on a seance at a private house in West Bridgford, Notts, the home of physiotherapist John Timmins. It was said that the police brutally shocked Mrs. Duncan out of her trance. Spiritualists believe that the rush of ectoplasm back into her body caused electrical burns from which she was never to recover. Sceptics remember that she was a 20-stone diabetic with a heart condition. Either way, five weeks later, aged 58, Helen Duncan died. Forty years after her death her family remain convinced of her powers -- and believe that she once held a seance for the Queen Mother in Scotland, as well as sittings for Churchill in the early war years. 'You'd need to be a clever and devious person to do the things they accused her of,' insists her granddaughter Am Brealey, 45, a nurse from Stoke-on-Trent and Sheila Downie's younger sister. 'My grandmother wasn't like that. My mother told me that Churchill definitely had seances with her.' 'She used to tell us about the spirits when we were children,' adds Mrs. Downie, who claims that she saw the bums on her grandmother's body before she died. 'It didn't scare us. It's always been part of our life. Every one of us is psychic -- but I am the only one who still practises my mediumship.' The sisters still refer respectfully to 'Uncle' Albert, the spirit guide considered one of the family. Half a century after the court case, there is a curious last chapter to the Helen Duncan story. Her case has been revived by a campaign group led by former Scotland Yard policeman James MacQuarrie -- who claims to be a materialising medium in the bizarre tradition of Duncan herself. With colleague Michael Colmer, he has set up a Duncan site on the Intemet, appealing for legal help to fight for a posthumous pardon. The 'tomfoolery' of the Helen Duncan trial resulted in the repeal of the Witchcraft Act in 1951 and its replacement by the Fraudulent Mediums Act. Says MacQuarrie: 'She was a folk heroine who made the Spiritualist religion legal. She did not die in vain.' The Daily Mail, Saturday December 6, 1997 by Mary Greene [http://members.tripod.com/~helenduncan/hex.htm] 2 - This unsung heroine was one Helen Duncan, a simple Scottish housewife, who was forced to serve time in London's notorious Victorian Holloway women's prison for the appalling "crime" of holding physical phenomena seances - many months which took a great toll on her health and contributed to her own premature earthly demise. Helen was born in Callander, a small Scottish town on the 25th of November 1897 the daughter of a master cabinet maker. Her family was far from rich. Like many of her fellow Celtic lassies she struggled to earn a living even after her marriage at the age of 20. Her husband, Henry, another cabinet maker, had been injured during WW1. She had 12 pregnanies, but only six children survived. To sustain this large family and a disabled husband she worked in the local bleach factory by day and her Spiritual work and domestic duties by night. The small amount of cash she made from her sittings, mostly token donations from friends and neighbours existing in a similar poverty to herself , would often discreetly go to their local doctor to pay for those patients who were destitute. This was in the time before Britain's national health service concept of free medicine for all had been introduced. But her skill lay in Mediumship of a particular kind, that rare psychic gift of being a vehicle for physical phenomena whilst in trance state. A precious gift that brought comfort to thousands but one which was eventually to cost her her earthly life. By the 1930s and 1940s she was travelling the length of wartime Britain giving regular seances in hundreds of Spiritualist churches and home circles. The evidence that flowed from these physical phenomena seances was astonishing. 'Dead' loved ones appeared in physical form , spoke to and touched their earthly relatives and and in this way brought both proof of survival and much comfort to thousands of traumatised and grieving wartime families. One such sitting was attended by a man named Vincent Woodcock who had brought his sister in law for an evening's demonstration. Those 60 minutes changed both their lives. Vincent gave evidence in London's premier Old Bailey court room that the medium Helen Duncan slipped into trance and began producing the much scoffed 'ectoplasm'. Then his 'dead' wife materialised from this ectoplasmic matter and asked both Vincent and his sister in law to stand up. The materialised spirit then removed her wedding ring and placed it on her sister's wedding finger , adding "It is my wish that this takes place for the sake of my little girl". A year later the couple were married and returned for a further seance during which the dead woman appeared once more to give her renewed blessings to the happy couple. But this touching human story, along with other similar unsolicited and genuine testimonials to her remarkable gifts, were ignored by the law courts for Helen Duncan was destined to 'go down' to appease an establishment terrified that she might accurately discern the date of the D-Day Normandy Landings. During the second world war Helen was in great demand from anxious relatives, especially those who had lost close family on active war service. One of many such sittings took place in a private house in the home port of Britain's Royal Naval fleet , the southern coastal city of Portsmouth on the evening of January 19 1944. It was a dangerous place to hold any meeting - such was the German Luftwaffe's intent on reducing Portsmouth to rubble and disable Britain's fleet . But the real danger lay not in a hail of enemy bombs but with the sceptism and fear of the establishment. For that night her seance was disrupted by a plain clothes policeman who blew his whistle to launch a raid. Police hands made a grab for the ectoplasm but the spirit world was too quick for them and it dematerialised quicker than they could catch. Thus Helen Duncan, together with three of her innocent sitters, were taken up before Portsmouth magistrates and charged with Vagrancy. At this hearing the court was told that Lietenant R. Worth of the Royal Navy had attended this seance suspecting fraud. He had paid 25 shillings ( then worth about $5) each for two tickets and had passed the second ticket to a policeman . It was this policeman who had made the unsucessful grab for the ectoplasm , believing it to be a white sheet. But the subsequent finger tip search of the room immediately after the raid failed to discover any white sheets. Even if she had been found guilt under this charge the maximum fine at that time would have been some five shillings ( $1) and she would have been released. But, very oddly Helen was refused bail. Instead she was sent to London and forced to spend four days in the notorious women's prison called Holloway. It was this same Victorian goal where sufragettes had been forced fed by prison warders and where the grisly gallows waited for all female murderers, spies and traitors. Meanwhile an anxious establishment debated the best charge to lay against this dangerous war criminal Helen Duncan . One her first appearance before the Portsmouth magistrates she had been charged under the catchall act of Vagrancy. This was later amended to one of Conspiracy which, in wartime Britain , carried the ultimate sentence of death by hanging. But by the time the case had been referred to England's central criminal court - know as the Old Bailey - the charge had been changed yet again . This time to one of witchcraft and an old Act of 1735 had been dredged out of the dusty law libraries . Under this ancient rune Helen Duncan and her innocent sitters wer accused of pretending 'to exercise or use human conjuration that through the agency of Helen Duncan spirits of deceased dead persons should appear to be present'. But, lest this single charge may falter, the authorities scoured their dusty law precedents for further charges and they found them. One such was the Larceny Act which accused her of taking money ' by falsely pretending she was in a position to bring about the appearances of thes spirits of deceased persons'. The prosecution were determined to prove Helen Duncan was a fraud. Her trial took place barely a few months before the famous D-Day landings and lasted for seven gruelling days. Spiritualists everywhere were up in arms that one of their most treasured and gifted demonstrators should be treated in such a tawdry manner. A defence fund was quickly raised . It was used to bring witnesses from all over the world to testify to her genuine gifts. Because of this her case rapidly became a cause celebre which attracted daily headlines in tabloid and broadsheets alike. One telling development that this was no ordinary case was that in a rare example of cross border co-operation both the Law Societies (senior legal bar councils) of England and Scotland jointly and simultaneously declared this case to be a travesty of justice. As a debunking exercise the case failed miserably. Sceptics must have winced at the daily reporting of case after case where 'dead' relatives had materialised and given absolute proof of their continued existence . One Kathleen McNeill, wife of a Glaswegian forgemaster, told how she has attended such a seance at which her sister appeared. Her sister had died some a few hours previously, after an operation, and news of her death could not have been known. Yet Albert, Helen Duncan's guide, announced that she had just passed over. And, at a subsequent seance, some years later Mrs McNeill's father strode out of the cabinet and came within six feet of her to better display his single eye , a hallmark of his earthly life. By the penultimate day of this ridiculous trial the defence was ready to call their star witness Alfred Dodd, an academic and much respected author of works on Shakespeare's sonnets. Alfred told the court that during 1932 and 1940 he had been a regular guest at Helen Duncan's home seances. At one of these sittings his grandfather had materialised, a tall, corpulent man with a bronzed face and smoking cap, hair dressed in his cutomary donkey-fringe. After speaking with his grandson the spirit then turned to his friend Tom and said; "Look into my face and into my eyes. Ask Alfred to show you my portrait. It is the same man". Two equally respected journalists, James Herries and Hannen Swaffer then took their places in the Old Bailey witness box - a place where for hundreds of years many a murderer has given evidence and many a witness has pointed an accusing finger. The chain smoking Swaffer , who had already won acclaim as the acerbic uncrowned father of Fleet Street ( home of England's newspaper quarter) and co-founder of the Spiritualist weekly "Psychic News", told the court that anyone who described ectoplasm as butter muslim " would be a child. Under a red light in a seance room it would look yellow or pink whilst these spirit forms all displayed a white appearance". James Herries, himself a Justice of the Peace, a much respected psychic investigator of some 20 years standing and the chief reporter of the prestigious and influential "Scotsman" broadsheet affirmed that he had seen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famed author of the Sherlock Holmes books, himself to materialise at one of Helen Duncan's seances. He had especially noted the distinctive Doyle rounded features, moustache and equally unmistakeable gravelly voice. But, wisely or otherwise, the defence had decided that the best test of Helen Duncan's genuine gifts were for her to give a demonstration of physical phenomena whilst in trance from the very witness box of England's Central Criminal Courts. This suggestion really did cause a frightened flurry in the ivory dovecots of the establishment. If she pulled it off, they debated, then instead of the censure they sought her cause would be spread throughout the land and even beyond . And this would mean that the famed British legal system adopted by so many former colonies - including America - would be held to total ridicule. Hurried conferences with the best legal minds were held throughout the night. Their solution was to reject this offer and suggest instead that Mrs Duncan be called as a witness - thus giving the prosecution an opportunity to cross examine this ordinary Scottish housewife and , in doing so, attempt to destroy her credibility. But Helen's defence lawyers saw through this ploy. They pointed out that Mrs Duncan could not testify since she was in a trance state during these seances and could not, therefore, discuss what had transpired. The jury only took half an hour to reach their verdict ; Helen and her co-defendants were found Guilty of conspiracy to contravene that ancient 1735 Witchcraft Act but Not Guilty on all other charges. Portsmouth's chief of police then described this new 'criminal's' background. Mrs Duncan was married to a cabinet maker and had a family of six children ranging from 18-26 and she had been visiting Portsmouth for some five years. He then described her as " an unmitigated humbug and pest" and revealed that in 1941 she had been reported for announcing the loss of one of His Majesty's ships before the fact had been publically known . The presiding judge announced a weekend's delay whilst he considered sentence. Helen herself left the dock weeping in her broad Scottish dialect; "I never hee'd so mony lies in a' my life". The following monday morning the judge declared that the verdict had not been concerned with whether ' genuine manifestations of the kind are possible . . .this court has nothing whatever to do with such abstract questions'. However he interpreted the jury's findings to mean that Helen Duncan had been involved in plain dishonesty and for this reason he therefore sentenced her to nine months imprisonment. The shocked Spiritualist movenment immediately demanded a change in the law. They felt that she had been prosecuted to stop any leakage of classified wartime information. As one of many , many, examples during 1943 and once more in that ungrateful city of Porttsmouth Helen Duncan had given a seance during which a sailor materialised reporting that he had gone down with His Majesty's Ship "Barham" whose loss was not officially announced until three months later. But, the defence right of appeal to the House of Lords , Britain's highest court of appeal, was denied. The establishment had achieved its objective and certainly did not want one single inch of further publicity. Helen was sent back to London's Holloway prison , that Victorian monstrosity for female prisoners still being used today. It was not only the best legal minds in the country that felt this case had been a major miscarriage of justice. So too did her prison warders. They refused to 'bang her up'. For the entire nine months of her unjust incarceration Helen Duncan's prison cell door was never once locked ! What's more she contined to apply her psychic gifts, as a constant steam of warders and inmates alike found their way to her cell for spiritual upliftment and guidance. And many senior Spiritualists who were close to Helen report that it was not only prisoners and staff who made pilgrimage to the dreaded Holloway Goal. So too did some of her other more notable sitters, including Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill himself. Churchill was no stranger to psychic phenomena. Recalling the events of the Boer War when he had been captured, had escaped and seeking sanctuary he explained in his autobiography how he he was " guided by some form of mental planchette ( a Spiritualist tool) to the only house in a 30 mile radius that was sympathetic to the British cause". Had he knocked on the back door of any other house he would have been arrested and returned to the Boer commanders to be shot as an escaping prisoner of war. Many years prior to this he had been ordained into the Grand Ancient Order of Druids. And throughout his life he experienced many times when his psychic sixth sense saved his life. Churchill was exceeding angry indeed when the Helen Duncan case began. He penned an irate ministerial note to the Home Secretary; " Give me a report of the 1735 Witchcraft Act . What was the cost of a trial to the State in which the Recorder ( junior magistrate) was kept busy with all this obsolete tomfoolery to the detriment of the necessary work in the courts?" But his civil servants were over-ridden by the all -powerful intelligence community. D-Day was coming and their levels of paranoia had reached an all time high and even a Prime Minister's anger was to be set aside. Helen Duncan, mother of nine and part time bleach factory employee was considered a risk and they wanted her out of the way when the Allies struck. Her case was a transparent conspiracy to frame her ' in the interests of national security' Meanwhile, having served her full sentence, Helen Duncan was released on 22 September 1944, vowing never to give another seance. Despite her declaration with in a few months she felt that strong call from the Spirit World to continue her work and was soon spending more time than ever in trance state. Perhaps too much so , for the quality of her seances since imprisonment appeared to have had deteriorated even to the point where Spiritualism's governing National Union actually withdrew her diploma at one stage . Helen's Spiritualist friends say that during his visits to her cell Prime Minister Churchill made promises of making amends to Helen. True or speculative it is a fact that in 1951 the damning 1735 Witchcraft Act which had been used to imprison Helen was finally repealed . In its place came the Fraudulent Mediums Act and some four years later in 1954 Spiritualism was officially recognised as a proper religion by formal Act of Parliament. And Spiritualists everywhere knew why and they rejoiced that whilst frauds would be properly prosecuted the authorities, especially the police , would stop harassing true working Mediums. They were wrong. In November 1956 police raided a seance in the midlands city of Nottingham. They grabbed the presiding medium, strip searched her and took endless flashlight photographs.. They shouted at her that they were looking for beards, masks and shrouds. But they found nothing. The medium was Helen Duncan and in their ignorance the police had committed the worst possible sin of physical phenomena; that a medium in trance must NEVER, ever be touched. As the Spirit World's teachers have patiently explained so many times when this happens the ectoplasm returns to the medium's body far too quickly and can cause immense - sometimes even fatal - damage. And so it was in this case. A doctor was summonsed and discovered two scond degree burns across Helen's stomach . She was so ill that she was immediately taken back to her Scottish home and later rushed to hospital. Five weeks after that police raid she was dead. [http://members.tripod.com/~helenduncan/Duncan.htm] 3 - When the battleship Barham was torpedoed by the Germans in November 1941, with the loss of over 800 lives, the Admiralty delayed announcing the news to maintain morale. But the secrecy was ended within a few days when medium Helen Duncan told a couple during a seance that their son, a sailor on the ship, had appeared from the spirit world to tell them it had sunk. In one of the most bizarre acts of the Second World War, Mrs Duncan was accused of leaking military secrets - and became the last woman jailed as a witch in the UK. Now campaigners want an official pardon for the Scots-born mother of six, who spent nine months in Holloway Prison, north London. A group of mediums have handed a petition to the Scottish Parliament, calling on it to lobby Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Campaigner Roberta Gordon, from Gullane, East Lothian, said: "At the time the country was paranoid about security and the evidence used against her wasn't accurate. "It would take away the stigma from her granddaughters and the great-grandsons." Mrs Duncan was one of Britain's best-known mediums. During her seances she produced "ectoplasm" - a stringy white substance that is supposed to give form to spirits and allow them to communicate. Paranormal investigators denounced her as a fraud who used cheesecloth and egg whites, but her family insist she was genuine, "an ordinary woman with a gift". Despite the controversy, Mrs Duncan reputedly numbered Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients. Churchill denounced the case against her as "obsolete tomfoolery" and visited her in prison. The Barham, a 29,000-ton battleship, was hit by three German torpedoes in the Mediterranean on November 25, 1941. The ship went down within minutes, with the loss of 861 lives. Already reeling from the Blitz, the British government decided not to make the news public, not least to keep the Germans guessing. But Duncan, who was living in Portsmouth at the time, held a seance just days later and told how she saw a sailor with the words HMS Barham on his hatband. He told her: "My ship is sunk". News of the revelation reached the Admiralty and she was placed under observation. But she was not arrested until January 1944. The trial in March 1944 caused a media sensation as Mrs Duncan was accused of being a traitor. But the prosecution struggled to back the claim and she was convicted instead under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, which had declared there could be no such thing as a medium. She was the last person in Britain jailed under the act, which was repealed in 1951. The last person convicted, East Londoner Jane Yorke, 72, escaped with a fine in October 1944 due to her age. Mrs Duncan died in 1956, soon after being arrested again in a police raid on a seance. Last year the Criminal Cases Review Commission rejected a petition for her to be pardoned, saying it would not be in the public interest. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-522992/Campaigners-bid-clear-witch-leaked-WWII-secrets-sinking-battleship.html] 3 - Friend of Winston Churchill and the King. Winston Churchill maintained that she should never have been prosucuted under such an old and outdated law. He made sure the law was repealed after Helen's conviction. One of the books written about her has said she was tossed out of the house at age 16 because she was pregnant, and and her father forbade her name to be mentioned in the house. This is not true. She had obviously had a falling out with her father and left home at age 16 to find work. She found work at the bleach mills in Dundee. 4 - Helen Duncan/MacFalane children: Henrietta died approx 13 months pneumonia Alex: dies at very young age Lillian married Angus Douglas RAF/ Gunner Killed in action children Dawn 7/1/? and Joan 10/15/? 2nd marriage John Cowie Archiblad married Lillian Lamb MacFalane Duncan Dec 24 children John 6/19/1950 and Margaret 4/22/1955 [E-mail from Margaret Hahn rec:12 Jan 2012] 5 - Victoria Helen Duncan married to Henry Anderson Horn(e) Duncan Cabinetmaker. Died December sixth between 01:45 am and 03:40 am at 36 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh. 6 - Website relevent to Helen. «u»http://www.helenduncan.net/«/u» (Research):http://members.tripod.com/~helenduncan/hex.htm [E-mail from Margaret Hahn (maggiehahn@aol.com ) rec: 12 Jan 2012] | Medium, Helen Victoria Macfarlane Spiritualist (I14675)
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| 1661 | A Historical walk / talk on Kilmadock Parish (Doune) Old* Kilmadock Cemetery - And three famous Scots buried there. Approximately 40 members and friends gathered at the stable block, Doune Lodge, Doune, to join Roy Macfarlane on this outing. Roy firstly told us of the Earls of Moray buying the estate in the 1810's, and in the 1820's building the stable block, designed by the well-known Dunblane architect W.Stirling, for under £5,000. The stable block, traditional Robert Adam style, i s similar to but much bigger than Alva House stable block and that of Harveston House built by the same man. Robert Adam had died in 1792 but his style was used for many future years. On crossing the busy Doune to Callander road and joining the path through the glen, we halted to admire the remains of the railway line from Doune to Callander, built in the late 1840's. It was the railway which brought tourism to Callander and th e Trossachs, opening up holidays for a wider public. Sir Walter Scott's 'Lady of the Lake', set in West Perthshire 30 years before that, being the great magnet. Stopping on the hill above the cemetery, which nestles on a plateau above the fast-flowing River Teith, Roy described the boundaries of the Parish and the view in front of us, which embraced the river, Deanston village and the mile-long lade. Roy then spoke of James Smith of Deanston 1790 - 1850, the first of the three able Scots. He came to Deanston at the age of 18 and over the next 20-30 years was the driving force as engineer, designer and improver, using the river Teith's fast-flo wing water to drive the wheels and machinery of the vast 4/5 storey Mills, taking raw cotton to nearly the finished textiles, sheets, towels, etc., famous as 'Finlay' sheets etc. He described the sister mill in Catrine, Ayrshire (also in the Finla y group) which did the finishing of the goods. Deanston village was created by Smith, comprising 5 blocks of houses, known as "divisions'. At one time nearly 900 people worked in the mill, mostly female, some young, called part timers. The villag e had a school for part time workers and other children. A hall was built, gas installed in 1813. At one time, the 4 large wheels driving the mill were the largest of their kind in the world. Smith raised the idea of taking water from Loch Katrin e to Glasgow. His efforts were similar to Robert Owen and David Dale of New Lanark, but 20 years later. Smith was a land improver, draining by new methods of tilling, pioneering deep ploughing, inventing new machinery for cutting hay, etc. He trav eled all over Scotland, lecturing on agricultural methods . Roy then showed us photographs of Deanston village and the mills, also of Catrine mills and village and New Lanark in Ayrshire. We then descended to the lovely old cemetery. John Campbell, Pistolmaker. Here was a family grave, where the famous pistol maker is buried. Roy took us through the 150 years of Doune pistol making, from the Caddell family who came from Muthill in l646 to John Murdoch who was still at his forge in 1798. John Campbell's b est years were 1740-1746 , making superb pistols. In the early 17th century, pistols were made from old horse nails hammered together - the art was perfected over 100 years. Doune was a centre for fairs and trysts, coming after Falkirk and Crief f in importance, and was ideally situated for selling pistols, being at the crossroads of Scotland, North to South. The defeat of Prince Charles and the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746 killed the pistol trade. The Disarming Act of 1746, forbidding a ny Scot to carry arms or wear the kilt, was the death knell of a vast trade - though some businesses continued on the Continent. There were three small pistol factories. One building remains, restored mostly by the voluntary work of John Blackwood, local antique restorer. Some fine examples of Doune pistols are to be seen in Edinburgh Galleries, Glasgow Art Gallery, Windso r Castle, Fyvie Castle and the Smith Gallery in Stirling. The Duke of Clarence was presented, in 1790, with a pair of ornamental Doune pistols. Plated and inlaid with gold. These were purchased by Inverness District in 1979 for £50,000 from a priv ate collector in the Channel Islands. Roy showed photos of Doune pistols. Kirkman Finlay 1772 -1842, a Merchant Prince. If James Smith was the driving force over 30 years in Deanston, Kirkman Finlay was the International Taipan who made James Finlay an International trading company, Calcutta being the H.Q. There were te a gardens in Assam and Travencore, shipping in the East and Insurance. At one time over 100,000 people were employed in India. K.Finlay was elected M.P. for a Glasgow burgh and helped to undermine the monopoly of the East India Company. He becam e Lord Provost of Glasgow, and when he retired buil t Castle Toward, a massive Gothic structure. Buried with honour, elsewhere, his memorial rests here. Finally, Roy showed us the large Macfarlane graves from the late 18th century, beginning with a Parlane, in direct line 8 generations to now. Roy Macfarlane, 1st June 1994 (b. 8th July 1917 d.2nd October 1994) [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=doigk&id=I57332] | McFarlane, Roy (I31459)
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| 1662 | A John A. Deaver served in the 16th Texas Cavalry, 16th Regiment, Fitzhugh's, Co. G, private. | Deaver, John Arthur (I30892)
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| 1663 | A lot of on-line trees say that he was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio; however that is a different family, and not even logical, is it? | McFarland, Robert (I9339)
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| 1664 | A monument in the same cemetery as the parents says Name: Helene McFarland Death Date: 02 Jul 1877 Age: 10 yr., 6 mo. Cemetery: Double Branch Description: Located about 10 milen southeast of Builer Bates County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-4, 5 (Part 1), 6 (Parts 1 & 2), 7, 8 (Parts 1-3) | McFarland, Helen (I9444)
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| 1665 | A son of Daniel is Prof. John A. McFarland, who is now, and has been for nineteen years, principal of Washington Academy, Salem. John A. McFarland was the eldest son ; spent his minority on the farm of his father, availing himself only of the advantages of the district school ; but so improved these opportunities that he was able at the age of eighteen to begin teaching, by which means he secured a sufficient competence to prepare for college, which he did in Cambridge Washington Academy, under Rev. E. H. Newton, D.D., entering in the advance course of third term sophomore of Union College, graduating from that institution of learning in the year 1848. During his college course his health had become considerably impaired, and be went to South Carolina, where he spent some time ; but, regaining his health, engaged as a teacher at Parrotsvillc, Tenn., where he remained aijout one year. In the fall of 1849 he returned north, and was married to Miss Amanda H., daughter of Ransom Hawley and Margaret Tice, of Cambridge. After his marriage he returned south, and was principal of Wytheville Academy for two years, ard from 1856 to 1859 had charge of the Rural Seminary at Pembroke, N. Y. His health again failing, ho returned to his native county, but soon after took charge of Washington Academy, at Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., where he has remained, and still remains (1878), with the exception of two years, for nineteen successive years. Prof. McFarland, in recounting his past history in connection with the last-named institution, is enabled to see tho.se who have graduated under his instruction filling important positions in the various professions, and ranking among the first as attorneys, physicians, clergymen, and business men. His natural ability as an instructor has given him rank nraong the most successful teachers of the State, and secured for him a reputation worthy the emulation of the young men of to-day, who, unassisted, must meet the obstacles coincident with self-made men. He has one son, Edwin Stanley McFarland, of Salem, N. Y. ("History of Washington County" published in 1878) | McFarland, Prof. John A. Principal of Washington Academy Salem (I23824)
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| 1666 | A Thomas Wylie left a will in 1819. Mentions wife Margret, sons Rankin, James, William, Thomas and land on Anthony Creek | Wylie, Thomas (I2073)
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| 1667 | A. B. McFarland can be found in the 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses in Jefferson County TN. CEMETERY: TENNESSEE, Hamblen Co, Witt Baptist Cemetery. Andrew B. McFarland died May 20, 1873, age 80yr, 9mo, 11 days. Wife Margaret, died Apr 28, 1840, age 52 years. SOURCE: INTERNET, USGENWEB, Tennessee. | McFarland, Andrew B. (I28993)
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| 1668 | A. S. McFarland left 30.37 acres from the orig. James McF. land grant to Elliott McFarland on Nov. 21, 1944 as recorded in Deed Book 260, p. 647. | McFarland, Ambrose Sylvester (I30670)
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| 1669 | A7806, A7805 in the 1100s to 1200s, are followed by 4 SNPs BY7785 + 3 in the 1400s, then BY7786 ca. 1740, and unique to this line FT123195. | R-FT123195, SNP (I2867)
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| 1670 | ABBR 1900 Census | Source (S1342)
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| 1671 | ABBR Ancestral File Ver 4.19 | Source (S1826)
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| 1672 | ABBR Death Certificate | Source (S1888)
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| 1673 | ABBR Email | Source (S1402)
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| 1674 | ABBR Personal Knowledge of Jerry Gale McFarland, 2000, Houston, Tx. 77084 | Source (S1336)
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| 1675 | ABBR Personal Knowledge of Mary Louise McFarland | Source (S2001)
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| 1676 | ABBR Tombstone | Source (S1413)
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| 1677 | Abraham Robbs is in the 1830 census in Greenville SC age 20 to 29, with one daughter and 4 slaves. Other Robbs are Watson Robbs, 20 to 29, and Wm. Robbs Jr. 30 to 39, and Wm. Robb 70 to 80. | Robbs, Abraham (I194)
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| 1678 | Abt. 1585: Muniment #5. Act of Amnesty for John Macfarlane, 12th Chief. https://www.clanmacfarlane.org/public_html/index.php/clan-macfarlane/muniments/587-muniment-hill-5-from-1585.html | Macfarlane, John 15th Baron of Arrochar 12th Clan Chief (I31565)
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| 1679 | According to "Eight Generations", Elizabeth Swaine is the first wife and mother of the children. p. 261 | Swain, Elizabeth (I995)
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| 1680 | According to 1851 census he was born abt. 1833 | Mcfarlane, Andrew (I5397)
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| 1681 | According to C.M. Little, James married Sarah Randall (p. 199). Will McFarland's research: He is mentioned in his father's will of 1770 and witnessed his stepmother's (Margaret) Will in 1780. He purchased land in West Pennsborough in 1781, and acknowledged satisfaction of a mortgage in 1786. However, he does not appear in the Big Spring church membership of 1789. Will concludes that he possibly died or moved away. He would have been 64 at the time. Will believes that the James McFarlan who owned land in Mifflin township is this same James. In court records an area later known as Doubling Gap, was called McFarlan's Gap in 1791, and the land was divided between his two sons, John and William, and this two sons-in-law, Robert Galbreath and Samuel Mitchell. These children, John, Hannah, and Mary stay living in the area. This information conflicts with the information Floyd C. McFarland wrote. I think Floyd must be talking about a different James McFarland because the James McFarlen mentioned below in the Land-Links, would have been in North Carolina in 1772. Researcher Floyd C. McFarland in Missouri has this same James as married to Rebecca Campbell and moving to North Carolina. QUESTION: Not listed in will of mother, Margaret in 1787. RESEARCHER-EMAIL: (1998) Floyd C. McFarland Found in queery in Cumberland County, PA records. James and Rebecca moved to Iredell County, North Carolina. LAND-LINKS: 1772 NORTH CAROLINA, Tryone County. Thomas Pulliam, 26 Sep 1772 to John Ashley, for 200 acres, proved by James McFarlen. SOURCE: "Abstracts of the Minutes of Pleas and Quarter Session of Tryon Co, NC" IN Bulletin of Genealogical Society of Old Tryone County 5:4:167 (1977) BPL. LINKS: 1785 NORTH CAROLINA, Rutherford County. William Horton sold to Ann Snowden a tract of land on Green River. Acreage includes "James McFarlands improvements". CENSUS: 1790 NORTH CAROLINA, Iredell County. James McFarlin 4 3 4 P. 156. CENSUS: 1800 NORTH CAROLINA, Iredell County. James McFarlin 01101-00201. P. 644. CENSUS: 1810 NORTH CAROLINA, Iredell County. James McFarland P. 244. SOURCE: York Co, PA Queeries May 1998 Internet. Floyd C. McFarland. Aaron Deviney born 1710 married Margaret Stuart. Resided in York Co, PA. Their son Aaron Deviney married Sarah Black. Aaron and Sarah's daughter Mary (Polly) Deviney married John McFarland. Another daughter Margaret married Patrick Mcfarland, John's brother. John and Patricks parents were James McFarland and Rebecca Campbell McFarland. It is believed that James and Rebecca resided in York County. Aaron and Sarah moved to Rutherford County, North Carolina. PROBATE: Will dated 4 Jul 1805. NORTH CAROLINA, Iredell Co. LINKS: Has close ties with Mary McFarland who married John Carson. Both had children who married a Gettys. Both from York County, Pennsylvania and moved to Rutherford County, North Carolina LINKS: Lucy (McFarland or Marshall), born 1787 in (Rutherford? County) North Carolina, died after 1850 Texas, married Thomas Hunt, born 1787 NC. 1820 Census Rutherford county. 1830-40-50 Census Blount County, TN, died after ca 1856 Rush County, TX. SOURCE: "Bulletin of Gen. Society Tryon County, NC" 1980. Father: James McFarland b: 24 Dec 1695 in Tyrone, Ireland Mother: Janet Buchanan b: Abt 1700 in Scotland Marriage 1 Rebecca Campbell b: Abt 1735 in York Co., Pennsylvania * Married: * Change Date: 23 May 2004 Children 1. Has No Children William McFarland b: Abt 1766 in Hopewell Twp., Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania 2. Has No Children Catherine McFarland b: 20 Jun 1767 in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania 3. Has Children Patrick McFarland b: 1768-1769 in North Carolina 4. Has No Children James McFarland b: 10 Jan 1772 in North Carolina 5. Has Children John McFarland b: 3 Dec 1775 in North Carolina 6. Has No Children Samuel McFarland b: Abt 1777 in North Carolina 7. Has No Children Robert McFarland b: Abt 1779 in North Carolina 8. Has No Children Rebecca McFarland b: Abt 1780 in North Carolina Sources: 1. Abbrev: McFarland Family Title: McFarland Family Author: Gary Morris Publication: Entries: 3288 Updated: Sat Apr 12 18:03:02 2003 Contact: Gary Morris Home Page: McFarland Genealogy Home Page | McFarland, James (I20086)
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| 1682 | According to census, Artie was born in October of 1878. | McFarland, Artimissa Amanda (I30806)
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| 1683 | According to deed records, Newton received 200 acres from the orig. land grant on May 23, 1870. When James died without a will, a dispute erupted when widow Jane left her land to Newton and Arthur. Newton died before it all could be straightened out. There is no record of where Newton is buried, but surely it is in the McFarland Cemetery. | McFarland, Newton M. (I29718)
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| 1684 | According to family records, Levina Jemima McFarland married a Samuel (Lemuel?) M McBride in 1883 (in Coitsville, Ohio?). However, census records for Ohio and Pennsylvania, that were checked, didn't reveal who he was, where he came from, or went t o. | McBride, Samuel Morrow (I16378)
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| 1685 | According to family, Jimmy moved to the Confederate Home for Veterans in Austin after Mollie died and sold the homeplace to Mertie Rattan Merrill. Family records say he served in Co. C of McGinnis Battalion, Texas Cavalry, CSA. | Eaton, James Robert (I30489)
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| 1686 | According to mother's obituary | Sproul, Beverly (I1322)
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| 1687 | According to newspaper articles, Lottie suffered from some type of mental illness, probably bi-polar disorder, that came and went. She also had a stroke that affected one side of her face. She never married, and is remembered by her niece and nephew as a sweet woman. | McFarland, Lottie (I9501)
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| 1688 | According to Pension Records, John McFarland served in the 13th Kentucky Cavalry, Co. E. He was a 4th Sergeant and served from August 16, 1863 where he enrolled in Clinton Co. KY, to Jan. 10, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Camp Nelson. Part of his service was on a raid into Virginia. He contracted rheumatism and diarrhoes caused by exposure and was treated at the hospital at Camp Nelson November and December 1864, and has been partially disabled by this ever since. He was applying for the pension in 1882. He was 5' 8" with Fair complexion, Gray eyes, Light hair, was a farmer When he filed for a disability pension he listed his children's names and birthdates. He said he married his wife in Wayne Co. and his proof consisted of the court record and the family bible. He received his last pension of $24. on Nov. 4, 1917. | McFarland, John (I28364)
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| 1689 | According to the biography, he moved to Carlisle before moving to Pittsburg in 1824. So, if that info is correct, then this is the correct John McFarland. It appears there are two adult households living together. | McFarland, John (I31968)
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| 1690 | According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Laura Bowman was originally buried in Henegar Cemetery in Union County. TVA lists her cause of death as 'prls' & her birth/death years as 1880/1925. | Overbay, Laura L (I1836)
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| 1691 | According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Laura Bowman was originally buried in Henegar Cemetery in Union County. She was relocated to Bakers Forge Memorial Cemetery in 1935, as part of TVA's Norris Dam grave relocation project. | Overbay, Laura L (I1836)
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| 1692 | Actually seems most likely. Symington is close to Irvine. Only parent named is father named David Bryce | Bryce, David (I2338)
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| 1693 | Actually, these census records could be for father Robert Sr. | Sproul, Robert Jr. (I1388)
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| 1694 | ADAM CAIRNS/CAIRNES/CARNES Parents THOMAS CAIRNS/CAIRNES/CARNES 1780– Anne McIntyre 1785– | Cairns, Adam (I14547)
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| 1695 | ADDRESS: (1970) Norwich, Ohio. | Lovejoy, Charles Robert (I8567)
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| 1696 | ADDRESS: (1970) Zanesville, Ohio. | Lovejoy, Milton Stanford (I8945)
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| 1697 | ADDRESS: (1970) Zanesville, Ohio. | Lovejoy, Richie Edward Lee (I8931)
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| 1698 | ADDRESS: (1970) Zanesville, Ohio. | Lovejoy, Samuel Clifton (I8927)
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| 1699 | Address: Phil McGaw 29 Chapel St Shirley, MA 01464 System shutdown after long decline into dementia | Tucker, Elizabeth Muriel (I1105)
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| 1700 | ADELAIDE (HOLLENBECK) MCFARLIN 1900 - 1999 by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008; Adelaide (Ruth?) Sutherland Hollenbeck was born in the Brooklyn Maternity Hospital on May 19 1900, the daughter of Everett and Adelaide (Sutherland) Hollenbeck of Brooklyn. In the 1900 US census (taken on June 1st) she is listed there as "Ruth" Ho llenbeck and is in the nursery room (6th fl) while her mother is in a private room on the 3rd floor. The hospital record may be in error or her name became Adelaide shortly after. EDUCATION AND GRAND TOUR The 1910 census finds the Hollenbeck family living at Curtis Terrace in Maplewood, a part of South Orange, New Jersey (NJ) where Adelaide, age nine, is attending school. In 1919 she is graduated from the Columbia High School of South Orange/Maplew ood. About 1920, Aunt Polly went to Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts (MA) and studied biology. Her first dissection was on a cat and she fainted. She soon dropped biology and decided to continue with her art interests at the Museum Schoo l (of Fine Arts) in Boston, MA. (# 2) In May of 1924, at age twenty three, Adelaide traveled with her parents to Europe on the SS Leviathan. She listed on her March passport her occupation as student and countries planned to visit were; British Isles, France, Belguim, Holland, Switzer land and Italy. MARRAIGE AND HOME She had met Kirk McFarlin in Maplewood NJ, while playing bridge at a mutual friend's house. They saw each other for a period and were married there in May of 1926. After honeymooning at Lake Placid they returned to their new home at 24 Delwick Lan e in Short Hills, NJ. Polly was interviewed in 1983 for some history of the Delwick Lane area (# 3). "My husband and I discovered this lovely little spot while we were horseback riding. At that time we were engaged.". I have lived at 24 Delwick La ne since the summer of 1926 when I moved into the house as a bride." Her home was designed by her husband Kirk and built by Bernhardt Mueller. "We knew that it would be a wise thing to have a dog, because we were almost alone on this street, and while we were trying to decide what kind of a dog we would get, I heard a scratch on the door one morning, and here was a little wire-haired fo x terrier wagging it's tail and he seemed to enjoy being here; we put him out at night and the next morning back he would come." The McFarlin's neighbor, Louis Kaufmann..."came over one morning and said he understood that his little dog Bubbles wa s very happy living with us." And so, Bubbles became their household pet while the Kaufmann children shared him on summer weekends when they were at their huge estate home across from the McFarlins there on Delwick Lane. Adelaide was first Episcopalian and later Christian Scientist, which was introduced to her through her husband Kirk. CHILDREN Around 1927-28 Adelaide (Polly) miscarried their first child; a girl. Kirk took Polly to relax in Bermuda in May/June of 1928. The 1930 census finds Adelaide and Kirk owning their home and with a maid. Their son Kirk Charles McFarlin was born Jul y 13 1930 in East Orange. His daughter Claire later shares that her grandma Polly almost named him Kirkpatrick, (after the longer version of his ancestor branch; the Kirkpatricks of Middlesex, PA. and 1700's NJ before that). When the Kirkpatrick s settled in Coitsville, OH in the early 1800's, they had shortened their surname to Kirk. Polly decided to also shorten it, after baby Kirk was born, "...she couldn't see giving such a small child, such a long name" (# 4). Aunt Polly later told P FM that they called young Kirk 'Peter', after a pet rabbit, so as to not call him 'junior'. Charles was sometimes used as his legal, original middle name. Adelaide and Kirk's last child was their son Everett Byrne McFarlin, born in East Orange, Oc t of 1933. Adelaide applied some of her art knowledge to designing patterns for china sets, and she later became an expert calligrapher, later teaching classes in the Millburn area. Her sister-in-law, Peggy McFarlin had also been a student at the Museum Scho ol in Boston (1926-1930) and she and Adelaide created wonderful little handmade christmas cards which they exchanged in the 1930's (# 1). MORE TRAVELS AND VISITS The following is from Claire (McFarlin) Viviani to PFM (# 4); "...Our trips were three. The first was in 1970, which Grandma Polly (Adelaide) took me on a 6 week guided tour of Europe, starting in England, by bus, and finishing in Italy. Absolute ly fabulous. The following year both Kirk and Adelaide took me to the Far East during my Christmas Holiday, for about 4 weeks. I especially remember celebrating my 16th birthday in Tokyo, which was our first stop. They had a Japanese friend that j oined us. After, we went to Kyoto and then Taipei and Manila. Then we returned to Taipei where we spent Christmas. Grandpa (Kirk) must have had some type of business he was taking care of during this trip as I met a couple more friends (Chinese) a nd one of their wives who joined us for dinner. Then it was on to Hong Kong and Bangkok and HuaHin. After this part of the trip we headed to Beirut and after that, home. This too was a wonderful experience, and I definitely got the impression tha t a lot of it was business, as Grandma and I did other things, like shopping, swimming and Kabuki Theater. "The last trip was with just Grandma, to Greece (ca 1974/5 - ed.). I was already in college, and I think it was because she had always wanted to go and had never had the opportunity, and she knew how much I loved Ancient History. Every summer, after we moved back to the States (from Guatemala to Ann Arbor in 1969 - ed.), I would try to go out and visit and I would spend a couple of weeks with them. Grandma taught me calligraphy (which she did so beautifully) and Japanese f lower arranging (Ikibana) and Chinese cooking with a real wok (in those days, that was impressive). We always managed to get in to New York at least once - by train, bus and subway, and go to the Metropolitan Museum, and could not come home unles s we stopped at Chock-Full-O-Nuts and bought a dozen of their donuts. I also would help Grandpa in the (home) office. This was after he had retired from his job in the city (which he too rode the train into), and had resumed working at home for Ri fe Hydraulic. I would help with typing letters, sending information to people who requested it and general office work." Adelaide's application for her SS number in October of 1955 indicated her employer at the time was the nearby Millburn High School (which, in 2008, became the top-rated high school in New Jersey). Her grand-daughter Gina McFarlin came to live wit h them (Polly and Everett) in 1984/1985 for a year and attended school there, graduating from Millburn High in 1985. After Polly's husband Kirk had passed on in 1977, she continued living in the Delwick Lane house with Everett until they both moved to Houston to be near her family; grand-daughters Gina and Lissa and occasionally, son Kirk, when he came to the st ates from Guatemala. Adelaide lived to be in her 100th year there in Houston and passed on in Oct of 1999. (Research):NOTES AND REFERENCES Peter had first learned of his aunt Polly McFarlin from his mother Peggy McFarlin and aunt Mary Applegate, while growing up and living in Wellesley, MA. They both always spoke highly of Polly and had fond memories of her from Short Hills. (# 1) - 1974 Peter Folsom McFarlin (PFM); 9-10 October; Personal conversations between PFM and his uncle Kirk and aunt Polly McFarlin while at their home in Short Hills NJ. These were willingly taped and later transcribed to text. (# 2) - 2008 data from Gina (McFarlin) (# 3) - 1983 "An Interview with Mrs Kirk (Polly) McFarlin of 24 Delwick Lane, Short Hills" in, The Thistle; by the Millburn/Short Hills Historical Society, Fall, 2004 V 34 pp 13 - 20. (# 4) - 2008 data from Claire (McFarlin) Viviani. OTHER SOURCES - 1900 - census; NYC, Kings co, New York ED 133 pp 138a, 138b; Ruth (sic) Hollenbeck (patient) a 1/12 b May 1900 and Adelaide Hollenbeck (patient) a 28 b Jan 1878, both in Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, St John's Place, Brooklyn. - 1910 - census; Maplewood, Essex co, New Jersey ED 218; Adalaide Hollenbeck (at school) a 9 with her parents Everett and Adalaide Hollenbeck and servant Fannie Brudy, all living at Curtiss Place. - 1919 - in; History of the School district of South Orange and Maplewood; by Foster, 1930, p 303; List of graduates of Columbia High School with Adelaide Sutherland Hollenbeck graduating in 1919. - 1920 - census; Maplewood, Essex co, New Jersey ED 324; Adelaide's parents are listed living at 24 Curtis Place with her uncle, Charles Byrne, (young Adelaide was not listed there, or located elswhere - she was probably living at Wellesley Colleg e whose US census records were not found.) - 1924 - US Passport #378120 (Washington) issued to; Adelaide Hollenbeck, single b May 19 1900 in Brooklyn, New York, now living at 22 Curtis Place, Maplewood, New Jersey and occupied as a student. She was 5' 6", blue eyes, light hair. Planning t o leave on the Leviathan, May 3rd for; British Isles, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. Travelling with her parents Adelaide and Everett Hollenbeck - 1928 - Passenger list for the SS America, arriving at NYC June 8th 1928 from Hamilton, Bermuda; Adelaide McFarlin b 1900 Brooklyn, NY and Kirk McFarlin b 1892 Topeka, Kan, both married and living at Delwick Lane, Short Hills, NJ. - 1930 - census; Millburn, Essex co, New Jersey ED 7-506; Adelaide McFarlin wife a 29 b NY with Kirk McFarlin a 37 b KA and Hilda Reinhauer maid a 23 b Germany, all living at Delwick Lane. - 1955 - (Oct 11th) SS Application # 143-30-1568 for Adelaide Hollenbeck McFarlin of PO Box 401,Short Hills, NJ a 55 b May 19 1900, employed by Millburn High School. - 1999 - SS Death Index for Adelaide H McFarlin, #143-30-1568, last resided in Houston, Texas; b 19 May 1900 d 1 Oct 1999. | Hollenbeck, Adelaide Sutherland (I16146)
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