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Duncan Lennox McFarlane
B 1793 Scotland - Ben lomand
M Elizebeth Norris 184? b 4 10 1804 north Leith midlothan Scot
D 27 10 1856 Glen Osmond S A
Arrived India 23 2 1840
Pastorals - residence Mt Baker, Lake, Albert, Glen Osmond
Could be buried West terrace Cemetery -Presbyterian
Looking for any info - re wife death,grave,or family
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Hi Heath,
Looks like nothing new in BISA.
MCFARLANE Duncan born 1793 SCT died 27 Oct 1856 Glen Osmond SA burried WTC arived 1839 from Nsw 0ccupation Seaman, Sheep Farmer, Pastoralist residence Mt Barker, Lake Albert, Glen Osmond religion Presbyterian
married Eliz nee NORRIS Children Mgt, Benjamin, Duncan Lennox 1842,
Except I see no burial at WTC.
Cheers Kris :)
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Sorry Heath,
I am not having much luck with this I am afraid. I am guessing some of your information has come from the BISA. I do see the arrival on the India you mention. (Both Duncan and Elizabeth Listed.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/1840India.gif
I see no sign of a marriage or any births to this couple. No deaths listing relative Duncan, No marriages listing a father Duncan. Nothing at all on the wife. A widow Elizabeth married in 1854 but that is before the death of Duncan so not her. I did find Duncan's death but that is all I have found. He is not listed in the 1841 census. :'(
MACFARLANE Duncan 27 Oct 1856 Mitcham Dist Ade 5 264 He was aged 63 years, Status, relative not recorded residence Mitcham.
Kris :)
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There was a death notice
The Register on the 28 Oct 1856
On the morning of the 27th Oct, at his residence, near Glen Osmond, Duncan MACFARLANE Esq JP
Not sure if this one connects
The Register 16 July 1861
McFARLANE On the 18th May, at Cailchenna, Inverness-shire Scotland, Mr Walter McFarlane, aged 60 years, younger brother of the late Mr Duncan McFarlane of this Colony and the late Mr James McFarlane of Gippsland Victoria.
Cheers Kris :)
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Pastoral Pioneers of SA
mention of Captain Davidson. His guests include such well known people as Governor Grey, with whom he often played chess, Duncan McFarlane and Allen McFarlane Sen who were not related...........
Although the squire of Blakiston was on friendly terms with Duncan McFarlane, he was at loggerheads with the latter's man, who threatened to impound his trespassing cattle. This entry occurs
" Sunday Dec 6 1840, finding our man did not return with the cows I went on horseback to see what was the matter, and found them separated into three lots, one of which Dick, Mr Duncan McFarlane's man was driving off. I Took them from him. He made a lame excuse."
Kris :)
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Government Gazette Entrys
1846 - Errata
The name of Mr Duncan MACFARLANE Esq was accidentally omitted from the last publication of the list of JPs
1847 - application for occupation licences and description of the run
Duncan MACFARLANE - NE from Lake LEAKE
another run application in 1852 for a 14 year lease
Duncan MACFARLANE - County of Russell - 68 Squ Miles - paid £51
notice re The Estate of Duncan MACFARLANE Esquire asking for claims to be made 26 Nov 1856
Sorry, a bit of interest in these but alas still not a mention of his wife or children. :'(
Kris :)
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Thank you for all that info.
yes Walter was his brother as was James.. :)
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Hi heath. Do we have 2 different duncan mcfalanes here. Is this Duncan the same one who travelled out on the India and married Elizabeth Norris. I believe that Duncan and Elizabeth were my gg grandparents. Regards. Steve
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Yes this is the same one that travelled out on the India and married Elizabeth what can you tell me about them. I have the family history and tree. they are my husbands they are ggg grandparents third gen - from Duncan the son. :)
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Hi,
I have only started looking at the McFarlane's in the last year, starting from my grandmother in Christchurch. Actually it took away one of my simple joys in life. Being a Kiwi, albeit one who left NZ many years ago, I realised that it was difficult cracking jokes about Aussies when the truth is that my g-g/father was born there! - which (some might say tragically) makes me part Aussie. The first I knew about Duncan snr (ex Scotland) was from a cousin in Tauranga, NZ. Problems are that some of the facts as I currently understand them can be vague, and assumptions can easily be wrong, helped by a lack of records from the early colonial days
1. Duncan & Elizabeth travelled out as steerage passengers on the India, arriving Adelaide Feb 1940. In 1855 Elizabeth remarries John Castley. Story is that Duncan drowned in a mining accident, presumably 1854. As is common for the times, Elizabeth has 5/6 children and remarries quite quickly. One also has to take into account that there were many more men in Aussie at that time than women. Actually I have details of similar quick remarriages elsewhere in my family at the same time, and second marriages after the death of a spouse were common. Duncan supposedly dies in 1856, being a man of some substance and a JP. Castley was apparently a shepherd for some time before eventually getting his own land - a common tale for many Scottish emigrants of the time, which meant that for some time life was not easy for Elizabeth and her second husband, though life was not easy for anyone in those times. Many records are innaccurate, and a year or two's discrepancy is not uncommon. Also, the opportunities were there for those who took them, It would be interesting to have more info about Duncan the JP, to corroborate.
At the same time I left my first message here, I also left a message about someone who might be another son of Duncan snr. - I will wait to see if I get an answer. The only info about any other siblings currently is a sister.
By coincidence I am currently trying to trace another Australian line from a different part of my family. Are you by any chance interested in the Mannions? If so, I have recently found out quite a lot about them
Duncan Lennox McF, son of Duncan snr returned to Aussie for a short while in the 1880's, and apparently went to Melbourne - presumably he had relatives there? He then returned to Dunedin.
There is still detail I don't know about the McFarlane's in NZ, though apart from my grandmother's siblings, I'm not really interested. My interest originally was to locate where they came from in Scotland, and to understand the migratory pressures - probably the clearances. That is still something I want to do.
One thing about this genealogy process is the stories that one comes across, that provide some "colour" and interest. Some of the verbal anecdotes that are passed down prove to be quite accurate.
Sorry, I've probably gone on a bit too much for this medium.
It would be interesting to share info, so it would be nice to hear from you.
Regards,
Steve
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Can anybody tell me some thing about the other Duncan McFarlane that was hanging around at the same time. He arrived some time before 1840.
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Hi Steve, Duncan settled at Morphett Vale with a group of 17 small farm allotments of 20 acres I believe were set up by the South Australia co. of which my ancestor was a part of. (John Ash Cullen)They called them selves United States settlement and States road derives its name from them. This info came from the 1844 gazette and Duncan was gone by 1850 when the road tax was instigated as his name was not on the index in the papers. I am researching these settlers so as to place them on the block they settled on . I had a break through when I searched the Piper /Bakewell/ Piper index that named my ancestors plot when conveyancing took place when he sold out in 1850. If you have the 1840 survey plan of MV the 80 acres blocks that were split up were 640,641,642,627,612 and have placed some of these people by reading the digitised papers. Do you have any photos of the elder McFarlanes ? My ancestor came out to NZ also and I live in Tauranga . regards Vaughan Cullen
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Duncan Lennox McFarlane
B 1793 Scotland - Ben lomand
M Elizebeth Norris 184? b 4 10 1804 north Leith midlothan Scot
D 27 10 1856 Glen Osmond S A
Arrived India 23 2 1840
Pastorals - residence Mt Baker, Lake, Albert, Glen Osmond
Could be buried West terrace Cemetery -Presbyterian
Looking for any info - re wife death,grave,or family
Can anybody tell me some thing about the other Duncan McFarlane that was hanging around at the same time. He arrived some time before 1840.
There appears to be some confusion by the researchers of your Duncan McFARLANE with another of the same name who was in the Colony of South Australia before the arrival of your man.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html
McFARLANE (Duncan?) arrived in SA 1838-12-26 aboard Parland from Sydney
McFARLANE (Duncan?) arrived in SA 1839-03-03 aboard David Witton from Pt Phillip
The South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register 12 Jan 1839
The David Witton has been chartered by Duncan Macfarlane, Esq., to bring sheep from Port Phillip, where Mr. Macfarlane's extensive flocks are depasturing. Mr. Macfarlane has also about one thousand head of cattle on the road to the province.
12 Dec 1839
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71685686
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27441198
Arrival of stock overland for James and Duncan McFARLANE 15 Feb 1840
Mr McFARLANE of Mt Barker formerly of NSW - survey, station property and servants and sale of subdivided land at Mt Barker. 26 Mar 1840.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71619084
This was Duncan McFARLANE whose Camden Park bred sheep [from Colony of NSW] formed the basis of the MURRAY sheep stud.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/cite/6245006/71619083
26 Mar 1840 Duncan McFARLANE Esq of Adelaide auctioning horses and stock which recently arrived overland.
Estate property advertisements also but no details of house etc at Glen Osmond.
Death
MACFARLANE Duncan 63 years Relative not recorded
27 Oct 1856
Residence Mitcham Death Place Mitcham Ade 5/264
Burial at West Terrace Cemetery
McFARLANE Duncan 52 years
Date of Death 29 October 1856 [This is date of burial]
Last Abode Glen Osmond
Section Road 1 South; Path Number 17; E/W/-Count E and Site# 26
Cando
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This article confirms that the information is BISA is incorrect especially in reference to the Duncan who arrived on the INDIA living at Mt Barker, Lake [Leak], [Lake] Albert and Glen Osmond. Lake Leak is near Millicent in the South East of South Australia.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147840154
LEST WE FORGET
Mt BARKER PIONEERS DUNCAN McFARLANE.
Mount Barker was at one time the name applied to the country lying between Woodchester and Woodside in one direction, and Hahndorf to Nairne on the other. The actual Mount Barker special survey of 20,000 acres was not as large as that. It was made in 1839, in the time of Governor Gawler. Duncan McFarlane Captain John Finnis, and William Hampden Button were the successful applicants for this special survey. W. Hampden Dutton was a brother of Francis Stacker Dutton, C.M.G., F.R.G.S., and Fredrick Hansborough Dutton, of "Anlaby" fame. Hampden Dutton brought sheep from N.S.W. and died in the end of 1840. Captain Finniss died at North Adelaide in 1872, at the age of 69 years. He was buried in West Terrace cemetery.
I have come across only one person who remembers seeing Duncan McFarlane, who must not be confused with the Wellington McFarlanes or the Lachlan Macfarlan family. This person describes him as a big man. There is no doubt but that he came to South Australia from New South Wales about 1838, or a little earlier. Duncan McFarlane was the only one of three partners who lived on the run.
Duncan McFarlane's house was built by Walter Paterson, on township allotment No 111, and overlooked the Purtinga Creek (comes down from Littlehampton). It was a four roomed house of stone and brick, roofed with shingles. There were eight allotments in this block, surveyed after the plan of a fan with the narrow ends facing Gilles Street.This block has since been re-surveyed and a street (Kia Ora) put through it, running at right angles off Gilles Street. The new allotment where the house stood, now belongs to Mr. Barker. The stones and bricks that formed the foundations have been recently dug up. One room of the house was used as a meat store by Duncan McFarlane, who supplied the community with meat off his run. James Greenfield, who was a butcher, lived in this house after McFarlane's departure. Greenfield, after 1851, transferred his business to Gawler Street, the site of Daw's butcher's shop. Greenfield built the original shop afterwards occupied by the Rundle family and the late Mr. Alfred Daw. The Sisters of the Roman Catholic Church occupied McFarlane's house for a time. Others lived there, including Sergt. Rollison's family. The first religious service was held under the big gum tree, by the Purtinga Creek, right in front of Mc Farlane's house.
Mr. McFarlane was a man of enterprise. Besides the sheep and cattle brought over from New South Wales to start his run in 1839, the brig "David Witton" brought from Victoria to Adelaide- 1,100 ewes for Mr. McFarlane. The same vessel was chartered again to bring more stock, and was wrecked in a gale at the month of the Onkaparinga, with Mr. McFarlane on board. This incident gave the name "Witton Head" to the locality. By 1841 Mr. McFarlane had put up huts for his servants, and stockyards. He also went in for wheat growing, and one of Ridley's reaping machines was used to gather a fine crop in 1844.
By this time other settlers bought sections in the district, which would naturally limit the area of McFarlane's run and cultivation. McFarlane took up country at Lake Albert, and later in the South-East, in the neighborhood of the present site of the township of Millicent.
Mr. McFarlane was a Justice of the Peace, and with his two partners he laid out Mount Barker township. He was one of the trustees appointed to make and maintain the Adelaide Mount Barker road, the cost of which was defrayed by the toll system— collected at the toll house at the entrance of the Glen Osmond gulch. I He was a subscriber to the amount of £100 to the endowment fund in' 1852 for St. Andrew's Kirk, Adelaide. For a time Mr. McFarlane—leaving pastoral interests in the care of his overseer, Archibald Johnson—lived at the old York Hotel, Adelaide, and afterwards resided near Glen Osmond, where he died on October 27, 1856, at the age of 63. His name is perpetuated in McFarlane Terrace, Mount Barker, which runs along the west side of the Purtinga creek, and joins Dutton Place, where the Barker monument stands.
I can find no mention of a wife or family for this Duncan McFARLANE.
Cando
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147842875
Mt Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser 23 Aug 1929
INTRODUCTION OF MERINO SHEEP TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FIRST FLOCK IMPORTED BY MR. DUNCAN McFARLANE AND BROUGHT TO MOUNT BARKER IN 1839—90 YEARS AGO.
About the year 1790, the King of Spain presented some Merino sheep to the Dutch Government, some whicb were sent to the Cape Colony. Later, the British Commandant, Colonel Gordon, took an interest in them and acquired a small flock. After his death, his widow sold some of them to a Captain Waterhouse, the master of a vessel trading with Sydney. Captain Waterhouse took the sheep with him to Sydney and sold them, some to Mr. McArthur, and some to the Rev. Samuel Marsden. It was from the former that Mr. Duncan McFarlane, the earliest settler of Mount Barker, secured the first Merino sheep that came to South Australia (1839).......................
Duncan Lennox McF, son of Duncan snr returned to Aussie for a short while in the 1880's, and apparently went to Melbourne - presumably he had relatives there? He then returned to Dunedin.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158186834
17 May 1862
REAL PROPERTY NOTICES....
HUNDRED STRATHALBYN-Section 1895
DUNCAN LENNOX McFARLANE (as Heir at-law of Duncan McFarlane, of the Hay Valley, farmer), near the Finniss.
Hay Valley is between Nairne and Woodside. Inverbrackie where your Duncan's wife Elizabeth NORRIS, re-married is close by. The church is a ruin.
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/inverbrackie.htm
Inverbrackie
As early as 1846 Thomas Payne ran a hotel and Dr Baruh looked also after the registrations of births, deaths and marriages.
I wonder if some of those bdm's failed to reach the Adelaide Registry. It is well known that certain sections of the community namely Roman Catholics and the Scottish, did not register their children's births as many folk considered a parish record to be sufficient recording of an event.
Cando
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Mt Barker area was not included in the 1841 Census
http://www.jaunay.com/census.php#
http://hahndorf.wikispot.org/Hahndorf/Historical
MacFARLANE, Duncan (1793-1856). Scottish-born MacFarlane arrived NSW 1824 as a sailor, and then began squatting in the mountains near present-day Canberra. Duncan came to SA 1838 with his friend, William Dutton, on the brig Parland. MacFarlane joined Dutton and Dutton’s father-in-law, John Finnis, in taking out the Mt Barker Special Survey during January 1839, the first such land sale in the colony. The men had brought with them substantial loans from a wealthy Sydney merchant, Thomas Walker, apparently to snap up property in such a fashion should it become available. MacFarlane established a station, using his own stock brought over by sea from NSW. Dependable Scottish shepherds came to live in a row of stone huts almost upon the later Mt Barker township, which Duncan and his partners laid out on part of MacFarlane’s sheep run during 1840. A sales office opened next to the homestead. Soon, scab and closer settlement made the area unsuitable for sheep and Duncan shifted his pastoral interests to the South-East. He also took up shares in the Glen Osmond silver-lead mines. In old age, D MacFarlane retired to his home at Glen Osmond. He was a JP and presided fairly over trials. - (Reg Butler)
Other research
http://clanmacfarlane.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Arrochybeg-to-Australia-Part-Two.pdf
Cando
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http://mepnab.netau.net/mc/mc03a.html
I have no other information on Duncan Snr other than my mother telling us that he drowned at the goldfields.
Their children ( I have 6) are Duncan, David, Robert, John, Euphemia and James. I think Duncan is the eldest and wonder, looking at my notes if maybe there are only 5 children and one is David Robert. That's a possibility. Euphemia is the only one I have any more information on - she married a McPhee in Adelaide. We must be able to find more out in Australia as Duncan Jnr didn't come to NZ until 1862 and settled in Dunedin.
There was gold mining in SA in 1846 at the Victoria mine near Castambul north east of Adelaide. Interest waned as the mine failed to live up to expectations.
Men left South Australia in droves for the Victorian goldfields and in 1851, the South Australian Government offered a £1000 reward for the discovery of a payable goldfield. The first claim to this reward was by Messrs Chapman, Hardiman and Hampton following the discovery of alluvial gold near Echunga early in 1852; other discoveries in the vicinity followed. Chapmans Gully (the site of the original find) and Donkey Gully saw the most concerted mining efforts, particularly during the period 1852-58.
So it would appear that your Duncan McFARLANE died in either South Aus or possibly Victoria, mining gold but he is definitely not the Duncan McFARLANE who died in 1856 at Glen Osmond who was the JP.
Cando
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Thank you for all that info.
yes Walter was his brother as was James.. :)
South Australian Register 16 Jul 1861
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50083193
DEATHS
McFARLANE-On the 18th May, at Cailchenna, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Mr. Walter McFarlane, aged 60 years, youngest brother of the late Mr. Duncan McFarlane, of this colony, and of the late Mr. James McFarlane, of Gipps Land, Victoria.
Only two deaths in Vic to 1861..
MacFARLANE James
Father Walter Mother Helen McLENNAN
1860 67 years Born STI Reg#7475
The Argus 31 Jul 1860
THE Friends of the late JAMES MACFARLANE, Esq., of Hayfield, Gipps Land, are respectfully Invited to follow his remains to tho Melbourne General Cemetery-.
The funeral procession is appointed to move from the Prince of Wales Hotel this day, the 31st July at 2 o'clock.
Digitised probate file at PROV
http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=54
Cando
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Thank you for the research you have done.
It has been along time since I have touched this family tree.
As you can see Duncan Married twice once in Scotland to Agness McNee 12 7 1818. They had one child Agnes birth 12 11 1823. Agnes mother Duncan's wife died 1 2 1837.
He then came out to South Australia on the India, as did Elizabeth Norris.
There is no record of a marriage as Civil reg began 1842. But there is a record of the birth of Duncan Lennox at the church (Presbyterian) Morphett Vale Church records were burnt in a fire.
We also know that he moved to Mt Barker (pres) he was a member of the church.
Elizabeth Norris when on to have 5 more children to John Castley there is photos of this couple.
I have read most of the newspaper notes from Trove.
We now know of two other Duncan McFarlane's in this area. Duncan McFarlane aboard the “Parland” from Sydney arrived SA 1838.
The second one arrived on the “Triton” according to clan info.
The ship “David Witton” from Pt Phillip 1839 is to do with sheep (Charted) unknown if there was a Duncan McFarlane on it.
By looking at the web page of the Clan we see two other children David and John that have been attached to this family, But we are not a wear of these two children.
It also states that Duncan Lennox McFarlane (son)wife Ann Bateman died of typhoid in Melbourne. Death cert states Febris Auterica 2 weeks.
Fingramm88rec (Ancestry) states that Duncan, James brother never married. If anyone can sent me the tree I would be most interested. We know that Duncan, James brother did marry possible twice.
:)
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Duncan is not buried in West Terrace Cemetery, the Cemetery states that he only had a plot there. :)
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Duncan is not buried in West Terrace Cemetery, the Cemetery states that he only had a plot there. :)
Really. So you are saying this transcribed entry from their online database which is transcribed from burial register is incorrect?
It would be illegal to enter a death of a person in a Burial Register and Burial Orders Register who was not buried at that cemetery.
Transcription of the death registration again.
Death
MACFARLANE Duncan 63 years Relative not recorded
27 Oct 1856
Residence Mitcham Death Place Mitcham Ade 5/264
http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/RecordsSearch.aspx
Burial at West Terrace Cemetery
McFARLANE Duncan 52 years
Date of Death 29 October 1856 [This is date of burial]
Last Abode Glen Osmond
Section Road 1 South; Path Number 17; E/W/-Count E and Site# 26
The information is overwhelming that your ancestor who arrived on the INDIA in 1840 is not this man. The above Duncan arrived in South Australia 1838 on the PARLAND and it is written he arrived in the Colony of NSW in 1824.
Even the website you quote has.....
The confusion over identity possibly arose from the fact that another Duncan MacFarlane
arrived in Adelaide in the ship ‘India’ on 23rd February 1840, and who later is said to have
married a fellow passenger, Elizabeth Norris and thereafter settled in SA.
Another researcher has posted information about your Duncan McFARLANE who arrived on the INDIA 1840, you have not even acknowledged him. His information places your Duncan initially south of Adelaide not at Mt Barker. I also noticed on the web, a comment made by another descendant of your Duncan, that it was believed he died in a mining accident. If this is the case, there may have been an inquest and his death not registered. This occurred quite frequently which makes it difficult for researchers.
Hi Steve, Duncan settled at Morphett Vale with a group of 17 small farm allotments of 20 acres I believe were set up by the South Australia co. of which my ancestor was a part of. (John Ash Cullen)They called them selves United States settlement and States road derives its name from them. This info came from the 1844 gazette and Duncan was gone by 1850 when the road tax was instigated as his name was not on the index in the papers. I am researching these settlers so as to place them on the block they settled on . I had a break through when I searched the Piper /Bakewell/ Piper index that named my ancestors plot when conveyancing took place when he sold out in 1850. If you have the 1840 survey plan of MV the 80 acres blocks that were split up were 640,641,642,627,612 and have placed some of these people by reading the digitised papers. Do you have any photos of the elder McFarlanes ? My ancestor came out to NZ also and I live in Tauranga . regards Vaughan Cullen
Perhaps spend some time and read the thread again including all the links. :)
Cando
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The information is overwhelming that your ancestor who arrived on the INDIA in 1840 is not this man. The above Duncan arrived in South Australia 1838 on the PARLAND and it is written he arrived in the Colony of NSW in 1824.
Here's some NSW NSW 1828 Census info. :)
Duncan McFARLANE, aged 28, Protestant, arrived per Triton 1824, came free, Superintendent, in the household of G T Palmer, at Limestone Plains, in the Goulburn Plains district.
He is also found in the 1837 Muster records, at Maneroo, with at least 25 assigned convicts.
The NSW Col Sec papers 1788-1825 index has him as James Duncan MCFARLANE, cf per Triton 1824, with 3 separate entries on that index, including listed as John McFarlin in August 1825.
http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/default.htm
Cheers, JM
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We now know of two other Duncan McFarlane's in this area. Duncan McFarlane aboard the “Parland” from Sydney arrived SA 1838.
The second one arrived on the “Triton” according to clan info.
The ship “David Witton” from Pt Phillip 1839 is to do with sheep (Charted) unknown if there was a Duncan McFarlane on it.
:) I think you will find that the "Triton" sighting is the one I noted as arriving in NSW in 1824.
:) Have you sought out the name of the chap who charted the ship "David Witton" in 1839. To my thinking, (and I can be way off track), it would be far easier even in the 1830s to drove sheep from the Goulburn - Canberra district to Port Phillip for transhipment to the new colony of South Australia than to drove them up to Sydney and then charter a ship from there to Adelaide.
The 1828 NSW census, also has a James McFarlane, aged 32, Presbyterian, arrived per Triton 1823, Came Free, Landholder, residence : Inverallochy, in the Goulburn Plains District.
There's also the 1823 NSW Muster, and a John McFarlane, per the Triton, came free, as a settler at Windsor (NSW)
http://www.bda-online.org.au/ http://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search
Cheers, JM
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/32163911 Sydney Monitor 1 May 1939
"Happily no lives were lost, and it is possible that the ship may be got off. D. Macfarlane, Esq., the charterer, who was on board,started for Adelaide as soon as it was light, and arrived there in the evening. He spoke in the highest terms of the attention and activity of Captain Wright,.......
..... loss of the David Witton, the charterer of that vessel has taken up the Thomas Harrison for voyages to Port Phillip, during the season. ....."
I suggest that there was a Duncan McFarlane of the David Witton.(edit from add 'bound for') Port Phillip 1839 I misread the cutting ::)
Cheers, JM
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This event took place after the DAVID WITTON had departed from Holdfast Bay [Glenelg] South Australia en route to Port Philip.
A little research here and mentions the Duncan who arrived on the INDIA in 1840. The researchers have confused the two Duncan's, claiming the successes by Duncan, the JP of Mt Barker and other SA pastoral holdings and establishing a very successful sheep stud with the Duncan who arrived on the INDIA and possibly, according to a researcher, may have died in a mining accident. Death not registered. Wonder if he tootled across the border to the Vic goldfields...so many did from SA
http://clanmacfarlane.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Arrochybeg-to-Australia-Part-Two.pdf
Cando