MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 160 – December 2025

Welcome to our 160th Issue! – MacFarlane’s Lantern No. 160 – December 2025 is now available for download from the Members Area (and back issues). Please click on ‘Membership Info’ in the main menu to join.

We begin with information about the Inverulgas Isle Project, and a photograph of the remains of Inverulgas Castle, once the stronghold of the MacFarlane Chiefs.

The main article in this issue (pages 4-7) is another by Lee Weller, ‘Notes on the Background of a Successful Hobart Merchant: James Macfarlane (1844 – 1914)’.

Photographs and information on Clan Happenings in 2025 are on pages 2-3 and 8. These include Tartan Day, St Andrew’s Day and our Annual Clan Lunch.

Following our Clan display at the Scottish Festival in Keilor on St. Andrew’s Day, we delve into ‘The MacFarlanes from Arundel, Keilor, Victoria’ and also take a look at the original Arundel Road Trestle Bridge.

For some Scottish nostalgia, we reprint an extract of Malcolm Lobban’s article ‘Childhood Memories of Kinlochard’.