Armadale Highland Gathering & the Perth Kilt Run
Sunday, 6 October 2019
8.30am to 4.30pm
Minnawarra Park, Armadale, Western Australia
The Armadale Highland Gathering is a one-day festival celebrating all things Scottish.
Kicking off in the morning with the quirky and much loved Perth Kilt Run, the day explodes with amusement and an array of kilt colours as hundreds of participants scramble to the finish line.
Following the excitement of the Perth Kilt Run is a day to experience Scottish arts and crafts, Highland Dancing, Pipe Band competitions, the hotly contested Heavy Events and Meet & Greet Scottish Dogs.
Let your imagination run wild in the Medieval Fair of the Clan Village and then kick up your heels with some great live Scottish music.
Please visit the website for the Perth Kilt Run
OR for further information, contact the Arts and Events Team at the City of Armadale:
email: events@armadale.wa.gov.au
telephone: (08) 9394 5000
- Messing about in boats: an Anniversary of Sail, including Memoirs from our childhood – The Daughters by Carol Fuller, Anita Renfrey & Noelene Mills
- Cloning in the Gloaming! by ‘Calum Curamach’
- How to Date Family Photographs by Glenda Dickson
- The Highland Society of New South Wales
- The New South Wales Scottish Regiment
- James MacFarlane, Omeo
- 30th Battalion’s First Raid in France
A Scottish New Year’s Day
Celebrate the beginning of the New Year at Maryborough Highland Gathering in central Victoria. First held in 1857, the gathering is now in its 158th year and combines traditional Scottish events with Australian sports, recreational activities and athletics.
1st January, 2019 – Princes Park, Maryborough, Victoria – 10 am to 10 pm. For further information visit the website of the Maryborough Highland Society.
This year we have published two issues of MacFarlane’s Lantern, the first was in May and the second one, the November issue, has just been published. Copies of both are available to download from the Members Area. Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you are interested in joining.
- The latest issue opens with ‘Honour their Spirit’ a celebration marking the centenary of the Armistice which signalled the end of World War One.
- Malcolm Lobban, our new Patron, has kindly provided the article ‘Scotland’s Last Public Hanging”.
- We also bring to you, news of the successful inaugural Clan MacFarlane Perpetual Piping Trophy as well as the Combined Luncheon and AGM which was recently held in Adelaide.
- There is also advance news of the 150-year celebrations at the Maritime Village in Port Adelaide connected with the MacFarlane boat building business.
MACFARLANE DNA PROJECT
Our Society proudly supports
the Official MacFarlane DNA Project at Family Tree DNA
This is a surname project for those who are descended from a person bearing the surname MacFarlane (or any of the varied spellings), or someone with a Sept surname, within ten generations. It is open to both males and females and you do not have to be a member of ours, or any other Society in order to participate. It currently has more than 900 members, making it the largest and oldest project for these surnames. If you click on the banner above, you will be taken to the main page for joining the Project and purchasing a DNA Kit. You may also follow the link through to The “MacFarlane Group” Project Website to find out further details on the project, or read more below. read more…
Scots Day Out 2018 – Bendigo, Victoria
Ringwood Highland Games 2018 – Victoria
A cache of 100 old photographic portraits pertaining to the Macfarlane families of Perth, Dundee and surrounds in Scotland, was discovered recently at an auction by James Burton of Aberdare, Wales. James is keen to return the photographs to descendants if any can be located.
James said, “10% are cabinet cards, 80% are carte de visite, with photographers studio names on the reverse dating from 1870 – 1900.” An example appears below:
Willie Macfarlane’s Widow and Daughters, Perth, Scotland c. 1880
The main family originated in Rattray, Perth, Scotland.
- William and Catherine (nee Gellatty) Macfarlane.
William was a cartwright who accidentally shot himself and died of his injuries in 1880 near Blairgowrie. - Sons:
James Macfarlane
Thomas Macfarlane
- Daughters:
Ann Macfarlane (m. James Armstrong, India)
Meg/Maggie Macfarlane (m. Sharp)
Bella Macfarlane (m. James Scott)If you believe you may have a connection with this family and would like further information, please email: secretary@clanmacfarlane.org.au
The September 2017 issue of MacFarlane’s Lantern is now available to download from the Members Area. Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you are interested in joining.
The feature story this issue concerns the MacFarlane pioneers of the Clarence River District in New South Wales, inspired by an article written by Duncan McFarlane (born 1849). Duncan’s ancestor arrived on the ‘British King’ which sailed from Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire in 1838 as part of a government migration scheme.
In ‘Piping Times’ Jason Moore, our President/Clan Piper, reflects on the past three months and his involvement with the Adelaide Project Pipe Band There is also information on the MacFarlanes of Kirkton in ‘Root Lines’, and more words of wisdom from our beloved ‘Grannie Mac’. Calum Curamach also entertains us with ‘Stories frae Auld Scotia’.
Malcolm Lobban provides more research notes on Clan Chiefs and Barons, and also reveals his efforts to stay in touch with what is happening back in his native land, Dunbartonshire. Also presented are some interesting facts about other Clans. and our Secretary draws attention to our forthcoming Annual Clan Luncheon in October, and AGM in November.
The Secretary draws attention to our forthcoming Annual Clan Luncheon in October, and AGM in November and provides the third and final part of her article,’Travelling the Canning Stock Route, Western Australia’.
The June issue of MacFarlane’s Lantern is now available to download from the Members Area. Please click on Membership Info in the main menu if you are interested in joining.
Allan McFarlane, his wife Margaret and thirteen children left their family home in Caithness, Scotland and arrived in Adelaide, South Australia in 1839 on the Superb and the family first settled in Mount Barker. Their family story features in this issue of MacFarlane’s Lantern (June 2017).
Editorial comment this issue relates to tartan and its detachment “from its original concept in the history of Gaeldom (Scottish Highlands)”.
You will also find an accurate transcription of a document entitled “1714 Address to King George I on his accession, bearing the signatures of 102 heritors and heads of clans”, the original of which is held in the National Museum of Scotland. We also bring to your notice a new Scots language website, ‘Wee Windaes’.
In ‘Jock Tamson’s Bairns’, Malcolm Lobban considers “those human characteristics which many of us so readily identify with our so-called ‘Scottishness’. ” While our President, Jason Moore, brings us up to date on the situation in South Australia for pipe bands wishing to compete.
We also continue on with Part 2 of ‘Travelling the Canning Stock Route, Western Australia’ by Glenda Dickson, which began in the March issue.