Isabel Mcfarlane

Brief Life History of Isabel

When Isabel Mcfarlane was christened on 26 July 1721, in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Donald McFarlane, was 26 and her mother, Jean Dow, was 21.

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Family Time Line

Donald McFarlane
1695–
Jean Dow
1699–
Dugal McFarlane
1714–
James Mcfarlane
1715–
William Mcfarlane
1719–
Isabel Mcfarlane
1721–
John Mcfarlan
1722–
Jean Mcfarlane
1723–
Donald Mcfarlane
1724–
Duncan Mcfarlane
1726–
Grissel McFarlan [MacFarlane]
1730–
Patrick Mcfarlane
1731–
Grissel Mcfarlan
1736–
James Mcfarlan
1738–

Sources (1)

  • Isabel Mcfarlane, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

World Events (3)

1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin, a patronymic from the personal name Parthalán, which is most probably from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). Parthalán, regularly shortened in speech to Parlán, has also been Anglicized as Bartlett . Compare McPartland .

History: McFarlane is a Scottish clan originally associated with Arrochar on Loch Long. — Robert McFarlane came to NY in 1835 and was editor of Scientific American magazine (1848–65).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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