When Walter Farquhar was born on 7 March 1869, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Farquhar, was 23 and his mother, Margaret Muir, was 23. He died on 14 August 1870, in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 1.
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Scottish (Aberdeenshire, Caithness, and Glasgow) and northern Irish (Armagh and Antrim): from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Fearchar, from fear ‘man’ + car ‘loving, beloved’, or a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhearchair.
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