MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 159 – July 2025

by Glenda Dickson on July 1st, 2025

MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 159 – July 2025 is now available for download from the Members Area (and back issues). Please click on ‘Membership Info’ in the main menu to join.

A summary follows:

You can feel the exuberance of Paul Marsh (our President, Ron Marsh’s son) and skipper Sandy Higgins in the photo (on the cover page) taken after their World Championship win at the Adelaide Sailing Club in January.
On pages 3-4, we bring you another great article by Ron Layton, ‘The early people of Scotland – Who were they?’
Scotsman William Taylor’s ‘Overnewton Castle’ in Keilor, Victoria, is the venue of a St Andrews Day Festival in November (page 4)
On pages 5-6, Lee Weller shares his research into the background of Andrew Macfarlane, the father of John and James (Macfarlane Bros. & Co., Hobart, Tasmania)
In ‘Flowers of the Forest’, page 6, we farewell Barry Donald McFarlane (NSW) and Vincent Brian McFarlane (VIC)
Peter McFarlane’s article on pages 7-9 answers the question, ‘Are official records always correct?’