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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 26 September 18 22:18 BST (UK) »
Great info, Scotsmum  ;)

Looks like the business went on after George's retirement (from the snippet you posted above)?:

M'Farlane, Machan, & Co., engineers and boilermakers, Dock Street
Engineering Works, East Dock street
https://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/87303614?mode=transcription - 1892-3

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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 27 September 18 10:51 BST (UK) »
Boilermaker to railway contractor is believable, no boilers, no railways! & without rivetting there would be neither.

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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 27 September 18 17:47 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Skoosh on Thursday 27 September 18 10:51 BST (UK)
Boilermaker to railway contractor is believable, no boilers, no railways! & without rivetting there would be neither.
It's from that to linen manufacturer that seems odd.
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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 27 September 18 17:54 BST (UK) »
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 27 September 18 20:36 BST (UK) »
1869...recorded as 'Boiler Maker' which was after the plaque was dated (as Engineer) in 1863 but helps narrow down when he went into the Linen Trade I suppose i.e. between 1869 & 1871 ???

In 1871 he is 50, linen manufacturer, born Perth, living at 37 Step Row"

ninetradesofdundee.co.uk/.../guildry.../1864%20-%201895%20Sederunt%20Book.pdf

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Add... that the link doesn't take you to the page i.e. using quotes...

"George McFarlane Boiler Maker in Dundee for self and posterity and for having"  ::)

Maybe a 'one hit wonder' as there seems to be little about his career whilst he "COMMENCED BUSINESS on his own account" in 1856?

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Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 27 September 18 20:46 BST (UK) »
The industrial revolution was boom-time. Scotland's greatest engineer Telford was a stonemason,  Baird of Gartsherrie, farmer to iron-master. Tennant's chemical works owner which became ICI, was a farmer. James Cook a Fife millwright set up in Glasgow as a flax-spinner & then cotton-spinner then pioneered sugar-refining machinery & turned to marine-engines. This was the norm, these were the guys who invented modern Scotland.

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