Duncan Macfarlane

Duncan Macfarlane

Male Abt 1707 - Aft 1764  (> 57 years)

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  • Name Duncan Macfarlane  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth Abt 1707  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 23 Nov 1764  Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I15960  MacFarlane
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

    Father Capt. Duncan Macfarlane,   b. Abt 1677   d. Aft 1744 (Age > 68 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother A French Lady,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F4649  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Cathrine Mcgrigor 
    Children 
     1. Duncan Macfarlane  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F2770  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

    Family 2 Jean Macfarlane,   b. 1710, Arrochar, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1728  Dunbartonshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Children 
     1. Walter Macfarlane, in Glen Luss,   b. Abt 1727, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. John Macfarlane,   b. Abt 1729, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jamaica, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. William Macfarlane,   b. 1731, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jamaica, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +4. James Macfarlane,   b. Abt 1733, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1797, Jamaica, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Andrew Macfarlane,   b. 1747, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1784, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 38 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4666  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

  • Notes 

    • 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)

  • Sources 
    1. [S2176] Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, "The barons of Arrochar and their cadets", Chapt 5.

    2. [S2176] Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, "The barons of Arrochar and their cadets", Chapt 5 - 19b.

    3. [S2177] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch, (Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;), accessed 2 Sep 2021), entry for Andrew Macfarlane, person ID LHX7-TF5.

    4. [S2177] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch, (Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;), accessed 2 Sep 2021), entry for Duncan MacFarlane, person ID LZ8N-3RQ.

    5. [S2191] James Macfarlane, "History of Clan Macfarlane", (Name: Name: published 1922 by David J. Clarke of Glasgow;;).