December 2021 issue of MacFarlane’s Lantern now available in Members Area
MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 152-December 2021 is now available in the Members Area along with back issues. Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you are interested in joining.
This issue features a talk given by South Australian member, Lennox Pawson OAM, The Scottish Influence in South Australia since the founding of the Colony.
Included are reports on the 2021 AGM, the Annual Combined Clans Luncheon in Adelaide and the Tartan Day and Saint Andrew’s Day celebrations.
Sadly, we also farewell Janet Nora Marsh (nee McFarlane) 1938-2021 in Flowers of the Forest. Janet joined us in 1982 and served as Federal Branch and South Australian Councillor for many years. She was awarded an Honorary Life Membership in 2016. Janet’s grandfather was Samuel Tyzack McFarlane (son of Alexander McFarlane, born 1841, Greenock, Scotland). A shipwright and boat builder by trade, Alexander McFarlane set up his own business (A. McFarlane & Sons) in Port Adelaide, after his arrival in 1866.
We introduce a new book about Lesmahagow, ‘the village that changed the world’.
We are also pleased to announce the award of Honorary Life Membership to Ronald Marsh.
The following Members’ stories are also included:
Bob Macfarlane’s Ascot Foundry – Mascot/Botany, New South Wales. This is based on a newspaper article published in 1943 about the entrepreneurial skills and hardworking ethic of Robert Grant (Bob) Macfarlane. Bob arrived in Sydney as a four-year-old with his family on the ship Aberdeen in October 1885. His parents were William McFarlane/Macfarlane (born 1839, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland) and Agnes McGregor (born about 1842, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland).
McFarlane: The Logan-Goodenough Family Connection by Peter McFarlane links Albert Leslie (Les) McFarlane, a Gallipoli veteran and farmer in East Gippsland with his wife Gertrude’s family. Her parents were Alfred Edward Logan and Ethel Goodenough. Gertrude nursed convalescing troops returning from World War I, as well as patients afflicted by the 1919 Spanish Influenza Pandemic. Gertrude’s grandfather (Ethel Goodenough’s father) was Sergeant Henry Goodenough. As a young police trooper in Ballarat (Victoria), Sergeant Goodenough achieved notoriety acting as ‘an agent provocateur and police spy’ during the Eureka Stockade Rebellion on Sunday 3 December 1854, and subsequently was the colonial authority’s prize witness in the Eureka Treason Trials of 1855.
