Malcolm McFarlane

1869 - 1955  (85 years)

• Name	Malcolm McFarlane  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1 Mar 1869	Callander, Perthshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Malcolm Macfarlane  [2, 3]
  Occupation	1910	India   [1]
  	Construction Engineer
  Death	25 Jan 1955	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I14840	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Francis Macfarlane,   b. 18 Jul 1839, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland d. 16 Oct 1880, 1 Alexandria Terrace, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ann Campbell,   b. 28 Feb 1843   d. 27 Oct 1889, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Alt. Marriage	1868	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  Marriage	28 Aug 1868	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  Family ID	F290	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Barker 'Maggie' Beattie,   b. 14 Apr 1867, Chatham, Kent, England d. 30 Nov 1940 (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1 Jun 1888  [1]
  Children	1. Margaret McFarlane,   b. Abt 1889, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Australia  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Annie McFarlane,   b. Abt 1891, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Jane Beattie McFarlane,   b. 30 Jul 1892, Lassodie, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 6 Dec 1978, Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Frances McFarlane,   b. Abt 1895, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Johanna McFarlane,   b. Abt 1897, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 23 Nov 1943, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. George McFarlane,   b. Abt 1902, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 29 Oct 1974, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Malcolm McFarlane,   b. Abt 1910   d. 7 Jun 1923, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 13 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  1 - UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Malcolm Mcfarlane Name: Malcolm Mcfarlane Port of Departure: River Plate, South America Arrival Date: 30 Sep 1912 Port of Arrival: London, England Ports of Voyage: La Plata [Rio de Janeiro] Ship Name: Highland Pride Shipping Line: Nelson Steam Navigation Company Ltd Official Number: 129086 7 - UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Malcolm Mcfarlane Name: Malcolm Mcfarlane Birth Date: abt 1873 Age: 40 Port of Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina Arrival Date: 14 Dec 1913 Port of Arrival: Southampton, England Ports of Voyage: Montevideo [Santos] [Rio de Janeiro] Ship Name: Aragon Shipping Line: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Ltd Official Number: 120707 8 -UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Mr Malcolm Mcfarlane Name: Mr Malcolm Mcfarlane Port of Departure: Kingston, Jamaica Arrival Date: 15 Apr 1921 Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England Ship Name: Nicoya Shipping Line: Messrs Elders and Fyffes Ltd Official Number: 121232 9 - Transcription of newspaper article - Rutherglen Reformer Friday, March 12, 1954 Forth Bridge Veteran Celebrates his 85th Birthday One of the few surviving men who helped to build the Forth Bridge in 1890 is Mr. Malcolm McFarlane, of 21 Ardmory Place, Toryglen, who has celebrated is 85th birthday. He retired in 1939 after sixty years as a constructural engineer, and is living in retirement with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. And Mrs. George McFarlane. He formerly resided at 204 French St., Bridgeton. He served his apprenticeship as a plater with the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd., Govan, and after taking up technical classes became a constructural engineer with Sir William Arrol and Coy., Ltd., engineers, Bridgeton, with whom he was for 14 years. He was in charge of one of the squads that erected the windbracings of the Forth Bridge in 1890. Mr. McFarlane has been responsible for erections of engineering projects in many parts of the world. He was at the building of the Nerbudda bridge, Central Indian Provinces, the Newfoundland Paper Company's mill and power-house at Deer Lake and Corner Brook, the erection of wharves at Apapa, Nigeria, the Carter Bridge, Lagos, Nigeria, the Ghizeh Bridge, Cairo, Oil storage tanks, Kingston, a sugar factory at Manzanillo, Cuba, and a pipeline for a power-house at Tucaman, Brazil. Among the firms by whom he was employed were Messrs Meechan's, Scotstoun, Messrs Braithwaite, London, Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth, Messrs Beattie and Coy., Edinburgh, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Mr. Malcolm McFarlane is a native of Callander. [Ancestry.com public tree Barbara Bartels Family Tree - Owner: BarbaraWalters226]

  
  

• Sources

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