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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