Clan MacFarlane: Its Descendants and associated families
www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info
This is the website of our New Zealand member and genealogy advisor, Andrew Macfarlane from Palmerston, and it is a fantastic resource for those tracing their family history.
Many years have been devoted to the research and documentation of Macfarlane and associated families, as well as connected clans.Andrew gratefully acknowledges all those who have made submissions to the website, in particular, Chevalier Terrance MacFarlane for his continuing research into Clan MacFarlane and its cadet branches.
There are some interesting statistics listed on the site:
- Total individuals: 82,216
- Total families: 36,278
- Average lifespan: 59 years, 254 days
- Earliest Birth: Abt 1001
- Longest lived: Lillias Dunlop McFarlane (132 years)
- Top 25 Surnames: No.1 spot, not surprisingly, is Macfarlane with Fraser taking out No.25
You can do a wide variety of searches on the site.Searching on a surname will bring up a list of individuals with further data.You can also search by a number of other criteria such as place name or cemetery.Photos of some headstones are also displayed, such as the one I found of the burial slab for Malcolm MacFarlane and wife Elizabeth in Luss Churchyard.The site also has a comprehensive listing of the source of the information.Information can also be downloaded from the site.
Our Society would like to show our support by encouraging members to contribute information to this site.This may either be done by contacting Andrew directly, or by giving me, as Secretary, your permission to pass on your family history information.Your privacy will be respected as the site does not publish information on living people, apart from mentioning the source of the information.It is helpful, however, if you provide this information to Andrew so that he can help establish family connections.
If you already have your family history information in Gedcom format then Andrew can easily incorporate it into the site (living persons will be automatically removed), however he is just as happy to receive information or suggestions via email or to input it from paper based documents.
Andrew Macfarlane is also a Group Co-administrator for the Official MacFarlane DNA Project at Family Tree DNA.
For further information please contact:
Andrew Macfarlane – Email: clanman@inspire.net.nz
The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was essentially a Glasgow regiment, frequently styled ‘The Glasgow Highlanders’ with many of its recruits being of Gaelic descent. The 16 Battalion appears to have been one of the many service battalions raised specifically for WWI. As for Lt.Andrew MacFarlane, this requires some further research into regimental archives. The fact that he was enlisted as an officer (2nd Lieutenant) indicates that he may well have had a good education and from a ‘middle-class’ family at least (I really hate reference to social ‘class’), possibly a business man.
More research needed here, and we would be interested in hearing the outcome of Julian’s research efforts. We shall see what we can discover on our HLI clansman.
In some First World War research that I have been conducting, I noticed Andrew Macfarlane, Lieutenant & Adjutant, 16th Bn.Highland Light Infantry (commissioned 2nd.Lt.14.4.15), I have a hunch that he might be identical with Temp.Captain Andrew Macfarlane MC, Highland Light Infantry.The latter was later promoted Major and his medal card cites two Scottish home addresses:
Benden Terrace, Morse Road, Motherwell
and
13 Dudley Drive, Hyndland, Glasgow.
I would be most grateful if someone could confirm
whether my hunch is correct and what may have been (Adjutant) Andrew Macfarlane’s profession in civilian life.
Julian Putkowski
More on Donna Johnston’s query.Andrew, I have a sneeking notion that you might just have the correct family from Causewayhead, Logie, Perthshire.Causewayhead is at a roundabout road junction to Bridge of Allan, Menstrie, etc. It lies at the foot of the Abbey Craig (Wallace Monument) and if my memory serves me there is a hotel at that roundabout (name escapes me) I have had a meal there and I had a pint after climbing Wallace’s Monument. Moreover, my own maternal grandmother Agnes Allan I think was born in that Logie.
I have a feeling about this, Andrew.
Good work…Malcolm.
Hi Donna,
I have a MacFarlane/Christie marriage with a son Malcolm who came out to Australia in the database.Locality however seems to indicate it is the wrong family to the one you are looking for.
Have a look at http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I3402&tree=UL
to see if there are names dates that seem to correspond with your own research.
If not please get in touch via the website or via the good people here at Clan Macfarlane Society Aust.Inc.with some more details on your line and we can start a new branch of your line which once posted on the website will hopefully bring in further information from other researchers of your line.Please remember that living people are not included on the website for privacy reasons.
Re Donna’s query.I failed to find a Wallace Hotel listed among modern hotel list for Stirlingshire, so which part of Stirling is it located i.e.street/road? I did find in the International Genealogical Index (IGI) a Malcolm McFarlane who married a Jean Gilchrist in Denny, Stirlingshire in 1854.
I suggest you find the true location of the hotel and check the census for that address in 1851. Your Malcolm owner/manager/gentry may have actually lived on the premises ¬ but he could also have lived elswhere (Denny, for instance, which is not so far from the burgh ¬ now a city).
We really need a bit more accurate details of the Wallace Hotel and where it is situated.Keep plugging away.
We travelled to Scotland in 2007 and stayed at Stirling. My husband’s great-grandfather Malcolm McFarlane was born here.Malcolm’s father, another Malcolm, was listed in the library as gentry in 1856 and ran what is now known as the Wallace Hotel. We were unable to find records as to the name of the Hotel during this period, the current managers did not have records onsite. We believe the next McFarlane line back was married to a Christie girl, from the local area, being a farming family. The Christie girl had a twin brother. My husband to this day is a male twin with a female twin sister. His twin sister has a boy & girl twin. We would find it of great interest if you could direct us where to research further for additional information about the McFarlanes from 1856 and prior of Stirling. Look forward to your response.
Anyone interested in the surname MacFarlane (and variant spellings), and associated Sept names, should have a look at my post regarding the MacFarlane DNA Project, under “Genealogy”.
Anyone have an A McFarlane who served in France in WW1? Found ‘A Mc Farlane Australia 1918’ scratched into the wall at Bertangles.
Thanks for posting the information about A.McFarlane at Bertangles, Kate.We’ll circulate that information in our newsletter as well and see what we come up with.
Your query led me to do a Google search which brought up a military record for another Macfarlane – 2nd Lt.Ian Cameron Macfarlane, who appears on page 146 of the “A Memorial Roll of The Officers of Alexandra Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment Who Died 1914-1919, compiled by Robert Coulson (1952-2008)” and which can be found at http://www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/pdf-files/bob%20coulson/officers-died-ww1.pdf
I will post an extract of this in a new article in case this is of interest to someone also.
Thank you for the kind comments on my website.It is updated as close as possible to the end of every month.Last month May, the major new addition was the addition of all the Scottish Church ministers with the surname MacFarlane (or variation) from all seven volumes of the FASTI ECCLESIAE SCOTICANAE THE SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS IN THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM THE REFORMATION.
If you have a Rev.MacFarlane in your ancestral line you may well find him and his family on the website.
This month I am working on inputting all the MacFarlane (any variation) entries from Dumbarton Old Parish Registers Births & marriages.
Those for Arrochar, Bonhill, & Cardross are already included on the website. If you have family from those areas, once again, good hunting.
Please contact me if you would like to provide further information on family lines that you find on the website.
Andrew Macfarlane’s brilliant website has helped me get to grips with my own Miller/MacFarlanes in Aberfoyle and in Dunbartonshire. Apart from this, it is an excellent source for studying Scottish Social History. Well done, indeed.