MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 158 – December 2024

MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 158 – December 2024 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 summary follows:

• The cover photo is the Clan MacFarlane group attending the Combined Clans Luncheon (Donald, MacFarlane and McNeil) in Adelaide, South Australia on 13 October 2024
• Our feature article this issue is by Ron Layton, ‘Scottishness Research in South Australia’, page 3.
• Andrew Macfarlane (New Zealand) outlines important changes to his website ‘Clan MacFarlane: Descendants and Associated Families’ on page 4
• Also on page 4, we have a photograph of Laura Gill who married Mr George McFarlane of Stuart Mill, Avoca, Victoria in 1901. George’s ancestors can be traced back to John McFarlane b. 1696 Port of Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland.
• Peter McFarlane has extended his series ‘Hunting for Ancestors through Burial Sites’ with ‘Part 5: Memorialising ancestors who served in the Australian Armed Forces’, see pages 5-9.
• ‘Flowers of the Forest’ on page 10 pays tribute to John Lennox Pawson OAM, Myrtle Bank, South Australia (died 10 August 21024), and Rex McFarlane, Cranbourne, Victoria (died 3 September 2024)
• ‘What is a Neep?  Cooking Neeps for Burns Night’