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Andrew and Flora MacFarlane

East Lighthouse keeper Andrew MacFarlane and his wife Flora MacPherson raised their family on Pictou Island. An Iodhlann preserves a photograph of the couple and their children at the lighthouse.

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Andrew and Flora MacFarlane

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Andrew and Flora MacFarlane

East Lighthouse keeper Andrew MacFarlane and his wife Flora MacPherson raised their family on Pictou Island. An Iodhlann preserves a photograph of the couple and their children at the lighthouse.

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Words on the stone

Andrew MacFarlane b 1855 -- d 19?? ; Flora (MacPherson) MacFarlane b 1863 -- d 1931 ; Mary Catherine MacFarlane b 1894 -- d 1927 ; Mae C.R.N. MacFarlane b 1908 -- d 1932. Flora wife of Andrew. Mary & Mae daughters of Andrew & Flora.

Sources, photo credits & notes

PARL / NovaStory R10-007. This identifier links the record and its photographs within the 2013 source-position system. It does not establish a physical location or adjacency to another stone.

PIHS identifies this portrait as East Lighthouse keeper Andrew MacFarlane. An Iodhlann independently identifies Andrew with Flora in its household photograph. This local portrait shows Andrew alone.

An Iodhlann’s heritage photograph independently identifies East Lighthouse keeper Andrew MacFarlane with his wife Flora MacPherson and their children. It corroborates the couple and household, but does not identify Mary and Mae individually.

The relationships are explicit in the transcription, but the incomplete dates remain unresolved.

Date discrepancy: the cemetery transcription gives Flora’s birth as 1863; An Iodhlann’s catalogue gives 1862.

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