Researching Alan Mcfarland
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 39 people with the Mcfarland surname? In that year Mcfarland was ranked number 3540 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Alan means "Handsome, cheerful" and is of Gaelic origin.
Records of Alan Mcfarland on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alan Mcfarland and the Mcfarland Family History
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Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Alan Mcfarland using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 2086 people with the Mcfarland surname in the UK? Mcfarland is now ranked number 2294 for popularity in the UK. |
Mcfarland Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 45574 people with the Mcfarland surname in the USA? Mcfarland is ranked number 142 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Alan Mcfarland. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Alan Mcfarland
Alan McFarland
Major Robert Alan McFarland (born 9 August 1949 in Plumbridge, County Tyrone) is an Independent Unionist politician in Northern Ireland, who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 1998 to 2011.
He attended Rockport School near Holywood and Campbell College in east Belfast. After a short career in banking he was admitted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1974. He is also a member of Mensa.
He retired from the Army in 1992 with the rank of major and became a Parliamentary Assistant to James Molyneaux MP and the Rev. Martin Smyth MP. In 1995, he was selected by the Ulster Unionists to contest the North Down by-election over the favourite for the nomination, Sir Reg Empey, but was beaten in the election by Robert McCartney. He was again beaten by McCartney in the 1997 general election, but by a narrower margin.
In 1996, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue for North Down and was involved in the talks process that resulted in the Belfast Agreement of 1998. He was one of three UUP members returned to the Assembly for North Down in the first elections to the body in 1998 and he retained his seat in the November 2003 election and March 2007 election.
He was, until reconstitution in 2006, one of the UUP representatives on the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
Following the resignation of David Trimble as UUP leader in 2005 he stood as a candidate in the contest to succeed him and was narrowly beaten by Sir Reg Empey. Sir Reg appointed McFarland as the party's chief negotiator following the election, in which role McFarland served through the period before restoration of devolution in Northern Ireland.
In 2007, following the restoration of devolution the details of a row between McFarland and Empey were leaked to the press. It is believed that McFarland turned down the nomination to be Minister of Health when he discovered that Empey planned to take the UUP's other ministerial portfolio himself, insisting that the party leader should concentrate on rebuilding the party from outside the Northern Ireland Executive. Empey did not back down from his stance and appointed Michael McGimpsey to the Department of Health instead.
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