James Wallace Macfarlane, OBE

1885 - 1949  (63 years)

• Name	James Wallace Macfarlane  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Suffix	OBE
  Birth	23 May 1885	Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland   [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Baptism	5 Jul 1885  [8]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1891  [5]
  Residence	1901  [4]
  Arrival	13 Jun 1932  [6]
  Name	James McFarlane [MacFarlane]  [8]
  Name	James Wallace MacFarlane  [2]
  Occupation	Leather Merchant India
  Death	23 Mar 1949	Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland   [1, 7]
  Probate	15 Jul 1949  [7]
  Person ID	I19180	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Peter Mcfarlane,   b. 28 Feb 1855, Drymen, Stirling, Scotland d. 12 Jan 1923, 27 Maxwell Dr., Pollockshields, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Smith Wallace,   b. 1 Nov 1862, 20 Candleriggs, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 10 Mar 1929, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Janet Stevenson Wood,   b. 23 Feb 1895, Kelvin, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 30 May 1967, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1920	Hillhead, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  Alt. Marriage	12 Oct 1920  [3]
  Children	1. Peter Wallace Macfarlane,   b. 12 Dec 1921, Maryhill, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 10 Feb 1982, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Isobel Ferguson Harvie Macfarlane,   b. 2 Jun 1924, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India d. 27 Dec 2012, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales (Age 88 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Jean Elizabeth Macfarlane,   b. 25 Dec 1926, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India d. 1987, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2988	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  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)

  
  

• Sources

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