Armour McFarland

Info from this website.
http://www.cotyroneireland.com/wills/Will-of-John-McCrea-of-Gobnascale-1878.html


Daughter - Margaret McCrea married Armour McFarland of Letterbrat, Bodoney Upper Parish on 5 Dec 1854 at 1st Donagheady Presbyterian Church.

http://sortedbyname.com/pages/m106458.html

William McFarland and Kim Scott 1980

Here is a photo of William and Kim, taken by Tracey Fitzgerald (travel mate) while Kim was on her first overseas trip and first time any one had stepped on Irish land from when James McFarland left Eire around the 1920s, to visit the family he had left behind.  The address of this house was 67 marshalltown Road, Carrickfergus, Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Useful Information?

February 15 1834

McFARLAND-McCREA. On Monday evening, by the Rev. A.P. Gowdy, MR. McFARLAND, of Omagh, saddler, to REBECCA, eldest daughter of MR. ARCHIBALD McCREA, saddler, Strabane

Found on this site:http://www.cotyroneireland.com/marriages/strabane1785-1859.html 


Lyn McFarland found a Civil birth record for Margaret McFarland(Maggie) in the Irish Family History Foundation

Date of baptismal/birth 26 October 1895
Address: Letterbratt
Parish/ district PLUMBRIDGE
County Tyrone
Parents are a match - George McFarland and Eliza Patterson
His occupation listed as farmer

James and Ivy McFarland Marry

The first official record I have found of James in Australia is his marriage certificate.

On the 25th of February 1925, James married Ivy Agnes Nesbit at Eaglehawk, near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.

Ivy already had a son, Charles Victor, born on the 23rd of February 1923, who was adopted by Ivys sister May. There are two conflicting stories about the identity of Charles father. The first I heard was that his father was Mays husband Andrew Scott and the other story was that his father was James McFarland. James used to take my mother, Emily to see Charles regularly when she was a child.

The electoral rolls show the couple were registered for voting in the Eaglehawke/Bendigo Region.

James McFarland Emigrates to Australia

We don't know why James emigrated from Ireland but there are vague stories that the farm his father George owned was too small to subdivide between the brothers. Looking at the George and Elizas marriage date and James and Williams birth date, it seams likely there were more than two children in the family.

Northern Ireland was going through great political upheaval, wanting home rule. The third home rule bill was passed in 1912. On the Public Records of Northern Ireland website you can view quite a few McFarland signatures in the area where George and Eliza lived. This is the web address:http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenantsearch/ .

In 1914 World War 1 began and in 1916 the Easter rising occurred. After the World War 1 ended in 1918 the Irish Civil War began in 1922, ending in 1923.

William McFarlands Brith Certificate

James McFarland Birth Certificate