Peter McFarlane

Brief Life History of Peter

When Peter McFarlane was born on 28 August 1819, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James McFarlane, was 33 and his mother, Agnes Bryson, was 24. He married Mary Clark on 27 December 1846, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hutchesontown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 23 July 1883, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Peter McFarlane
1819–1883
Mary Clark
1820–1887
Marriage: 27 December 1846
James McFarlane
1847–1921
Peter Kelsey McFarlane
1849–1860
John Clark McFarlane
1850–1878
Peter Bryson McFarlane
1851–1854
Mary Clark Mc Farlane
1854–1855
Peter Bryson McFarlane
1856–1900
Arthur McFarlane
1858–1902
Archibald Mc Farlane
1862–1866

Sources (45)

  • Peter Mcfarlane, "Scotland Census, 1861"
  • Peter Mcfarlane, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • Peter McFarlane, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1820 · "The ""Radical War""."

The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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1. Origins and Accepting the Gospel

Peter married Mary Clark in Greenock, Scotland. He was from Glasgow and she was from Johnstone. Peter and Mary had 8 children. They lost two sons and their only daughter in Scotland. They al …

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