Author Topic: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee  (Read 2112 times)

Online Forfarian

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,970
  • http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ruz/
    • View Profile
G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« on: Tuesday 25 September 18 21:42 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know anything about G McFarlane, Dundee, who built the railway bridge across the River Spey at Ballindalloch in 1863? What else did he build?
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

Offline Rosinish

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,239
  • PASSED & PAST
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 September 18 22:32 BST (UK) »
Forfarian,

Do you know anything else about him i.e. BMD info. as there may be info. hiding in places where he was familiar to?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

Online Forfarian

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,970
  • http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ruz/
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 September 18 22:41 BST (UK) »
Do you know anything else about him i.e. BMD info. as there may be info. hiding in places where he was familiar to?
Not a scrap. All I know is this https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5919010

I have done a few searches but found nothing so far.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

Offline Rosinish

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,239
  • PASSED & PAST
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 25 September 18 22:54 BST (UK) »
I did do a wee search & found the link myself earlier...

I also noticed somewhere he's been recorded as C McFarlane but there was too much to trawl through to find it so if this is him with the wrong initial attached there may be other info. with it?

Using the quotes;

"detail of manufacturer's nameplate (C. McFarlane, Engineer, Dundee)"

Is he a possible ancestor or just someone/something of interest?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"


Offline scotmum

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,480
  • A tree full of life, a life full of branches!
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 25 September 18 23:22 BST (UK) »
Quote
.  Alexander Gibb was the engineer, from whose line section book the figure is taken, and the contractor for the ironwork was G. McFarlane, Dundee.   


https://canmore.org.uk/site/16004/ballindalloch-railway-bridge


"Trees without roots fall over!"
 
""People who never look backward to their ancestors will never look forward to posterity." - Edmund Burke

Don't just wait for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”  Stephen Hawking

In a world where you can be anything, be kind .

Offline Rosinish

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,239
  • PASSED & PAST
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 26 September 18 00:02 BST (UK) »
Scotmum,

That's a help as it certainly adds something as G McFarlane was only the Contractor i.e. Forfarian will now possibly be looking at Alexander Gibb?

Annie

South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

Offline Rosinish

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,239
  • PASSED & PAST
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 26 September 18 00:19 BST (UK) »
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

Offline Annette7

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 8,009
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 26 September 18 09:24 BST (UK) »
I, too, thought it should read 'C'. McFarlane - wonder if it could be a Campbell McFarlane (born South Leith) who in 1861 is shown as 'Iron Moulder' and in 1873 as 'Engineer in Rope Work'.

Annette
Scopes (One-Name Study - Worldwide)
Suffolk - Grist, Knights, Bullenthorpe, Watcham
Scotland - Spence, Horne, Cowan, Moffat
London -  Monk

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.   Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.   Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Online Forfarian

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,970
  • http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ruz/
    • View Profile
Re: G McFarlane, railway builder, Dundee
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 26 September 18 09:28 BST (UK) »
Thank you both. I had found both those links, but they tell me nothing more about the contractor G McFarlane. At the moment I am attempting to be interested in G McFarlane, not Alexander Gibb. He must have had a fairly substantial business to be awarded the contract to build the bridge at Ballindalloch, and to complete it successfully.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.