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-article147840154LEST 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
