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Hi Josey,

Patrick's birthdate is not known exactly. On his marriage Sep 1890 he stated he was 32. On 1900 Census he stated born June 1859 and on his death certificate 4 Sep 1912 he was recorded as having been 60 years and 6 months.

His 2 sons were named John Arthur and William Lawrence.  His 2 daughters were Mary and Alice Bridget.  William and Alice Bridget were after maternal grandparents and John and Mary after paternal grandparents. Doesn't help much!
PWN

Thank you all for your input and advice. I appreciate that John Burke and Mary Sullivan are common names and more research is needed to corroborate the one marriage which I found.

Thank you "Sinann" for the Townland search site. Very useful for me! Being Scottish and unfamiliar with Irish parishes, townlands etc it is most helpful to try and understand the localities. 

As I said it was one of the American descendants who stated that Patrick came from "Incenstown" and I don't know where they got this information from. He appears on a passenger list which sailed from Queenstown in 1884 and I now wonder if this info had been written down and misread as Incenstown. I found HMS Naval history log books for HMS Jessamine, Queenstown Command, for 1915-1918. Minesweeping in the Southern Irish waters in WW1. In the original log books the name 'Queenstown' is recorded frequently but on the transcriptions it has been mistranscribed on numerous occasions as 'Incenstown' or 'Insenstown'. From the original handwriting and the fancy 'Q' you can see why it has been misread. I am inclined to think the same may be true of the American info and they may just have seen it written somewhere and made the same error. It would appear that there is no actual place named 'Incenstown'.

Which now leaves the question of where Patrick actually originated from as if he only departed from Queenstown he may well have lived outwith County Cork. More research needed!
Thanks again for all you help.
Regards
PWN

 

Thanks, Jamkid. A great breakthrough for me finding Duncan in Clydebank and it has led onto other findings about him too.

I knew there were McFarlanes working at Geilston Estate. Don't know if you live anywhere near it but it's now a National Trust property and we visit 3-4 times each year. The woodland grounds and gardens are wonderful and always an interesting walk around the estate.
Good luck in finding other relatives. We may be related further back. I understand from family stories that before our McFarlanes were in Renton they came from Luss...unable so far to prove this though!
Best wishes
PWN

Hi Jamkid,
Yes, I am still here and still looking for what became of Duncan. I have checked all variations of the name and a wide range of dates and throughout Lanarkshire but no luck.

My McFarlanes came from Renton which is in Cardross Parish in Dunbartonshire. They were employed in the printfield works as calico printers. There were quite a few different lines of McFarlanes here and most eventually moved into Glasgow where they continued their trade and their daughters became power loom weavers. Some of the sons became iron moulders and lived in Bridgeton area.

Not sure if we have any connection. There is also a line of McFarlanes who were ag labs and were employed on Geilston land and Murray's farm if I remember correctly.
If you find we have a connection please do get in touch and good luck with your research.

I have a John Hall buried here on 21 Feb 1845 and also his wife Harriet on 16 Jun 1845 - both on National Burial Index. Someone recently had a look round the churchyard there but could not find a headstone and of course there may not be one. Anyone know if there would be a burial register anywhere which may have a record of a plot number to identify where they may be within this churchyard?  Thanks PWN