MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 154 – December 2022 Now Available in Members Area
MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 154 – December 2022 is now available for download from the Members Area along with back issues. Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you are interested in joining.
• This issue opens with a story about the Macfarlane Brothers & Co., Hobart, Tasmania, established by James and John Macfarlane in the 1870s. Mr W. H. Strutt (who later became a senior partner) wrote the famous message announcing Amundsen’s successful expedition to the South Pole in 1912
• Andrew Macfarlane provides an update on the work he has been doing extracting ‘Find-A-Grave’ MacFarlane and variation entries, including the McFarland/McFarlane connection of Australian actor, Heath Ledger
• We pay special tribute to Malcolm Lobban, Patron, Past President, Newsletter Editor, Historical Researcher and dear friend who passed away in August 2022. Also, we share with you Malcolm’s experience of Christmas 1944 in an Alexandria Tenement and another article of his titled Clabby-Doos at Arrochar
• Peter McFarlane, Somerton Park, South Australia shares with us the news that his McFarlane/MacFarlane ancestry can now be traced back 30 generations to the progenitors of Clan MacFarlane
• In his article, Hunting for Ancestors Through Burial Sites, Part 1: Our Scottish Ancestors and Victorian Descendants, Peter McFarlane embarks on a quest to locate ancestral graves and to honour those with unmarked graves
A full list of what is in this issue can be viewed by clicking on the image of page one (above left)
