FARQUHARSON, John JP, of Whitecairns, Belhelvie parish ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   Another name for John was FARQUHERSON, John.^{7 8}

   User ID: M76.

  General Notes:

"FARQUHERSON
JOHN
JOHN FARQUHERSON/ISABEL BREBBER FR499 (FR499)
M
18/04/1826
200/ 30 18
Glenbucket"

from Births and Baptisms

Old Parish Registers
Glenbucket parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms

"April 18^th (1826 from entry above)
Farquherson
John Farquherson in Belaglack [sic] & isabel Brebber his wife had a son Baptised and named John before witnesses"

John Farquharson, John's son, a farmer at Balnaglack [sic] and residing in Aberdeen, gave notice of his father's death before Willm. Reid, registrar, at Glenbucket on 16 April 1862.

John's obituary from the Aberdeen Evening Express, 9 March 1914, reads:

"The above is a photograph of Mr John Farquharson of Witecairns, who was born at Balnaglack, Glenbuchat, and died at Aberedeen on Saturday, aged 88 years. He was for long a prominent agriculturalist, and one of the principal purchasers of stock for the London markets."


"Name:
John Farquharson
Death Date:
7 Mar 1914
Death Place:
Aberdeen, Scotland
Confirmation Date:
2 May 1914
Confirmation Place:
Aberdeen, Scotland"

from Probate index ^{1 2 3 7 8}

  Research Notes:

"EPITAPHS.

In the wall of the church, to the left of the pulpit, a neat bronze cenotaph, set in polished granite, has recently been erected.
It bears the Farquharson family motto and crest, and the following inscription -

FIDE ET FORTITUDINE.

This Cenotaph is placed here by John Farquharson of Whitecairns as a mark of filial devotion to the memory of his father, John Farquharson, born at Belnaglack, in this parish, and died there April 12, 1862, aged 91 years, and was buried under the Allargue Tablet on the south wall of Strathdon Church, and of his mother, Isobel Breber, who died at Cove, near Aberdeen, December 12, 1889, aged 90 years, and was buried in Nigg Cemetery. Also of his grandfather and grandmother, Alexander Farquharson and Janet Ritchie, who died at Belnaglack, aged respectively 78 and 95 years, and were interred in the family burial ground within the former church of Strathdon.

The above Farquharsons are descendedfrom Findiay Farquharson, fifth son of Findiay Farquharson of Invercauld - better
known as 'Findla Mhor' - who fell at Pinkie in 1547. Prior to his father's death Findiay Farquharson acquired the lands of
Auchriachan and Cumdell, in Strathaven, and thereafter his third son, Robert Farquharson, got Aldinlairg -or Allargue - and
'Tolduchull,' in Strathdon. From him in lineal descent was William Farquharson 'of Toldquhill' in 1762. His eldest son was the above Alexander Farquharson, who married Janet Ritchie, eldest daughter of Jerome Ritchie. [Ritchie then occupied several holdings in the Strathdon district, and also Belnaglack, in Glenbucket, which he vacated in 1770 in favour of his daughter and her husband, Alexander Farquharson.] Their eldest son, John Farquharson, married Isobel Breber, eldest daughter of John Breber, farmer, Comerton, Strathdon, and the 'Banffshire Journal,' at his death, paid a high tribute to his character and unobtrusive disposition. It is there stated that

'In 1822 deceased became heir to a property in Jamaica belonging to his brother, Alexander, estimated at about £30,000. However, he allowed his cousin. Alexander Glennie of Maybank to obtain the property.. . . In May, 1859, deceased contested the succession to the Breda property. . . with Mr Farquharson of Allargue, and was believed by many old people in the district to have been the heir to that property.'

The eldest son, John Farquharson, J. P., who erected the above cenotaph, purchased, in 1897, the property of Whitecairns, Belhelvie, from Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe.
It will be noted that the aggregate age of the four persons commemorated in the inscription was 354 years - three averaging
no less than 92 years."

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions (Glenbucket) ⁵