April 6th

For the first event for today we go to the grave which I discovered on the last day of my holiday in Glasgow.  In that grave, in Ballyhennan Burial Ground in Tarbet on Loch Lomond lies your 3Xgreat grandmother Mary Macfarlane.  Mary died on April 6th 1867.

And, also on this day, John Finnie was born in 1874 in Inverkeithny, Banffshire, Scotland.  The family moved a wee bit south into Aberdeenshire (parish of Monquhitter) before he was 6.

John is your first cousin 3X removed.  His grandparents, George Donald and Ann Matthew are your 3x great grandparents.  He was the fourth and last son in the family and he remained at home, working as a farmer, until well into his 30's - maybe into his 40's.  He married Mary Demptster when he was 42.  They had one son that I know of.