Kabul to Kandahar Veteran - Thomas MacFarlane

[wmather]

I have been given the attached newspaper clip reporting the death on Thomas MacFarlane, a Kabul to Kandahar veteran.  I have tried the Glasgow Herald online archives for March 1932 without success.  Thomas was born 1949 in Hamilton and died on 3rd March 1932 in Glasgow (Calton) and is buried in Janefield Cemetary in Glasgow.

Half of the article is missing and I am trying to trace the original article as there appears to be more information regarding his family.  Is there any other newspapers local to Glasgow that may have carried this article.

[MonicaL]

Hi wmather

Nothing here re Janefield Cemetery to help further www.memento-mori.co.uk/32.pdf Looks like a stone may not have survived to be recorded.

Have you got his exact death date to help with searching newspapers?

Monica

[MonicaL]

...and died on 3rd March 1932 in Glasgow (Calton) and is buried in Janefield Cemetary in Glasgow.

Sorry, you have cited this 

Monica

[wmather]

Hi Monica,

The exact date of his death is 3rd March 1932.  His address is given as 152 Duke Street and his death was registered by his son.  The article had intimated that he had passed away the previous week, but there is no death notice in the Glasgow Herald in the whole of March 1932.

William

I have been given the following information re his burial plot.  Glasgow Eastern Necropolis register of lairs D-CEM 1/6/3/4 cert. 11995. Thomas McFARLANE 133, Sydney St. Compartment 2 N° 1482  There are 6 people in this plot, the most recent being in 1992.

[MonicaL]

William, I have to log off as I am zzzz'ed 

This is an obit rather than a death notice, always harder to find on the Glasgow Herald as they jump about the paper more that the standard BMDs for the period.

Such a fascinating story it seems for Thomas. Would be good for you to find the full obit  Just curious, have you got him on earlier censuses, his marriage etc.?

Monica

[tidybooks]

Hi all,

I have checked the Scotsman and Times archives in the NLS, and did not find any record either.

The type and layout look familiar, early "Sunday Post" or "Weekly News".

Tom

[wmather]

Hi Monica,

He was in Dennistoun in 1861, Barony 1891, Blythwood in 1901 and married Jane Heggie Calder in Dennistoun in 1884.  His address is given as Annfield Street in 1884.  His wife died in 1929 and is buried in the same plot at Janefield.

William

[tidybooks]

Hi All,

There is a tree on Ancestry, by Iain340 which contains this Thomas Wallace MacFarlane, but alas there is no newspaper clipping, but there are 2 photographs, one of Thomas in uniform, and one later in life of him sporting his medals.

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/17260471/person/1731575627

Tom

[MonicaL]

Thanks Tom 

Just picked up on a/try trees. WOW, amazing photos for him 

As the obit mentioned, he lived in Dennistoun for a long time. Just getting some census info here for him. From 1891:

Thomas McFarlane 41, Drapery Packer b. Hamilton
Jane McFarlane 30 b. Glasgow
Christina McFarlane 6
John McFarlane 4
John Jamieson 21 boarder
Address: 237 Duke St, Dennistoun

Monica

Added: Those are the ones I was looking at too, Tom