Rev
Edgar
James
McFarland
BA
Born in Londonderry, County Londonderry, Ireland
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Frances Maria Duffus (Taylor) McFarland
— married
19 Jan 1888 in St Andrew's Church, Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand
Descendants 
Father of
Kenneth James McFarland BA, Robert Duffus McFarland MC, Mary McFarland and Edgar Alan McFarland
Died
at age 87
in his residence, 28 Brighton Road, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
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Biography
Honorary Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, Bishop's Chaplain, Vicar of St Barnabas's Church, Mount Eden (1902-22), Vicar of the Te Aroha-Morrinsville Parish (1897-1902), Vicar of the Bombay-Pukekohe Parish (1886), Freemason, Trustee; of 19 Bellevue Road, Mount Eden, Auckland.
Background
He was the son of Robert James McFarland, civil engineer and surveyor, and Dorothea Hughes.
New Zealand
In 1862 with his parents, the family immigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to Auckland, New Zealand, onboard the Ida Ziegler.
Education
The Thames School; Auckland College and Grammar School 1876-7; College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland 1881-2; BA University of New Zealand (through College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland), Grade I Board Theological Studies.
Education and Clerical Appointments
BA 1882.
24 Dec 1882 Deacon, St Paul's, Auckland.
23 Dec 1883 Priest, St Paul's, Auckland.
Career
He was initially a surveyor in the Thames district. In early 1880s he resided in Ellerslie, Auckland, and secured land and plans for building a church there.
1 December 1883-6 Curate, Epsom.
1886-96 Minister, Bombay, diocese of Auckland.
1896-1902 Vicar, Te Aroha.
1902-21 Vicar, St Barnabas, Mt Eden.
1914 Canon, Auckland.
1922-40 Chaplain to Bishop.
1923-8 Trustee, College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland.
Marriage and family
On 19 January 1888 he married Frances Maria Taylor, eldest twin daughter of Robert Cecil Taylor and Elizabeth Paul Duffus, with issue three sons and one daughter.
In 1916 he presented a new altar at St Barnabas's Church, in Memory of his youngest son, Edgar Alan McFarland.
Residences
In 1941 they resided at 28 Brighton Road, Parnell, Auckland.
Death and burial
He died on 28 December 1944 at Auckland. He was buried on 30 December 1944 in Purewa Cemetery. His widow died in 1954 and was buried with him.
Legacy
On 25 January 1997 the New Zealand Herald published a feature regarding Edgar James McFarland building his own house with detailed fine plaster ceilings, at 19 Bellevue Road, Mt Eden.
Sources
Obit 30 Dec 1944, Waikato Times, Papers Past, NLNZ.[1]
Marriage, 30 Jan 1888, NZH, Papers Past, NLNZ.[2]
'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and genealogical notebooks, compiled by (his great-grandson) Cranleigh Harper Barton BEM, which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest, Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand (1975).
New Zealand Anglican Clerical Directory.
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