MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 156, December 2023 – Now Available in the Members Area

MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 156 – December  2023 is now available for download from the Members Area (and back issues). Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you want to join.

A full list of what is in this issue can be viewed by clicking on page 1 (image on the left).

A summary follows:

• This issue opens with a stunning photo of snow-covered Beinn Bheula, near Lochgoilhead, Argyll and Bute.
• All the usual clan news and reports, including our recent Annual General Meeting at which Ron Marsh was appointed our new President.
• What are you reading? The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith – published in 1828 – is a book which gives an often-amusing glimpse into the daily life of the Scottish working class in the early 1800s.
• A brief update is given on work on Island I Vow (Elanvow/Ellan Vow) to preserve the ruins of the sixteenth-century castle of Andrew Macfarlane, 11th Chief of the Clan MacFarlane.
• Information on a survey of archaeological sites in Arrochar Parish.
• ‘Right of interment, grave & burial rules across Australia’, Part 3 of an article by Peter McFarlane called ‘Hunting for ancestors through burial sites’.
•  ‘More on MacFarlane Pioneers in Australia’ provides a brief update on the article ‘Arrochybeg to Australia: The Story of MacFarlane Pioneers’ published over two issues in 2011.
• News of the Clans of Loch Lomond DNA Project.