Norman McFarlane
- Nama Hōia
- 7934 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Norman AWMM
- Norman StedmanPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 8 March 2023 - Family records
- Ingoa whānau
- McFarlane AWMM
- McFarlanePublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 8 March 2023 - Family records show that this was the correct spelling of the family surname
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- 7934 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
- North Molyneux, south Otago, New ZealandPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Family records
- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
- Norman was the 4th child of Scottish immigrants Andrew McFarlane and his wife Susan Young EdwardPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Genealogy research and family records
- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
- Labourer and confectionerPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Electoral roll data sourced from Ancestry.com.au
- Uri kiritahi
- Norman was a young man when he enlisted. He had been raised by his mother (as a single parent since 1887) and was likely to have nominated her as his next of kin (TBC)Public - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Assumption only that Susan was nominated as next of kin
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Norman was single. He and his older brother Joseph McFarlane enlisted together (they have consecutive service numbers), joined quickly by their younger brother Herbert McFarlane.Public - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Family records and genealogy research. The consecutive service numbers for Norman and Joseph, and subsequent number for Herbert, are evidenced in the Online Cenotaph.
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- 7934 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- South Africa Bootmaker/Civilian Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- South Africa 12 Mar 1902 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Kent Ministry for Culture and Heritage Vessel was Kent AWMM Private Ministry for Culture and Heritage 9th New Zealand Mounted Rifles, South Island Regiment, A Squadron Ministry for Culture and Heritage Ninth Contingent, New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Father was named Andrew Mcfarlane. AWMM
- Strong military background - Norman's father Andrew served in the 93rd Scottish Regiment (Sutherland Highlanders) for 12 years, from the age of 19 in 1854. Andrew served in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, before being severely wounded and sent back to the regiment's headquarters at Stirling Castle - after a 7-month hospital stay in India.
Andrew then became a prison warder in Perth, Scotland. He met and married Susan Young Edward, a linen-weaver (factory worker) from Arbroath and previously a country girl from rural Friockheim (where her father was a gamekeeper).
Andrew and Susan had three children before emigrating as a family, arriving in New Zealand in 1878. Their 4th child, Norman Stedman McFarlane, was born in North Molyneux - now a small settlement on the south Otago Coast, but then a thriving port. The family soon moved to Dunedin, where three more McFarlane children were born.
Andrew and Susan separated in January 1887, when their youngest child (Andrew) was still a baby. Susan raised five of her children as a single Mum, including her sons Joe, Norm, Herb and Andy, and her daughter Minnie. We understand the family was very close, and their Mum was regarded as a hard-working, pragmatic, cheerful woman, who was kind.
Norm and his brothers, Joe and Herb, were proud to fight in the South African war in 1902.
Several years after the war, Norm got married in Victoria, Australia on 22 June 1910, when he was 31. His wife was Beatrice Winifred Duncan Hollingworth - who celebrated her 21st birthday a fortnight later.
The young couple returned to Dunedin where their first child was born on 22 December 1910, and they named him Norman Stedman McFarlane, after his father.
Norman and Beatrice went on to have a family six children: five sons (Norman, George, Andrew, Ron and Stanley) and their youngest child was a daughter, named Beatrice.
Although in his late 30s, Norm re-enlisted in World War 1 and was declared fit for local service. He was discharged in 1919.
The early 1920s were challenging, with the deaths of two their infant sons: Andrew died on 1 December 1920 (aged only three and a half) and Stanley died the following September, aged only 11 months.
Norman and his family continued to live in Dunedin where Norm worked as a labourer, through until 1928 where the electoral roll shows that he was a confectioner - probably working at a factory like Cadburys, which carried the family through the Great Depression. This was a lucky break, as thousands of men were unemployed at this time and many families were starving.
Towards his mid-sixties and her mid-fifties, Norman and Beatrice sought a divorce in 1942/43. It's not now known (by my branch of the family, which isn't the direct branch) when they separated, or why. Their children acknowledged their parents' (at least previously) loving relationship in their parents' respective death notices, in later years.
Norman Stedman McFarlane died on 6 June 1960, at the age of 81. He was buried in the Andersons' Bay cemetery in Dunedin, in the family plot purchased 40 years earlier, alongside his two little boys, Andrew and Stanley.Public - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Sourced from family records and recollections, as well as detailed genealogy research, including: Andrew McFarlane's military account book; records from ScotlandsPeople; births, deaths and marriages registers (from Dept Internal Affairs, New Zealand); cemetery records; electoral roll data from Ancestry.com.au; Susan and Andrew's divorce papers from National Archives; articles in Papers Past (from the National Library of New Zealand).
Te matenga
- Matenga
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- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
- 81Public - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Norman's birth certificate shows he was born in May 1879. His death in June 1960 means that he was 81 and not 82, when he died
- Wāhi Mate
- Dunedin, New ZealandPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - The funeral notice lodged in the local paper, Dunedin
- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Andersons Bay Cemetery AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
- McFarlane family plot and grave of Norman's two little boys, Andrew and StanleyPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - Cemetery records for Andersons' Bay cemetery, held by the Dunedin City Council
- Pānui Matenga
- Norman's death notice referenced his Boer war service, as the first tribute to Norm - ahead of references to his familyPublic - Kathryn - Other relative - 9 March 2023 - The funeral notice lodged in the local paper, Dunedin
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
Further Reference - Archives NZ: W5515|35|3476
http://archives.govt.nz/research/guides/war
Further Reference - Military Personnel File
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20521734
Further Reference
- New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
- Ngā tuhinga
- Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
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