Researching Helen Macfarlane
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1713 people with the Macfarlane surname? In that year Macfarlane was ranked number 2020 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Helen means "bright one" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Helen Macfarlane on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Helen Macfarlane and the Macfarlane Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 5997 people with the Macfarlane surname in the UK? Macfarlane is now ranked number 995 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Helen Macfarlane
Helen Macfarlane
Helen Macfarlane, born Barrhead, 25 September 1818 (registered in the Abbey [i.e. landward] Parish of Paisley), Renfrewshire, Scotland, died Nantwich, Cheshire, England 29 March 1860, was a Scottish Chartist feminist journalist and philosopher, known for her 1850 translation into English of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which was published in German in 1848. Between April 1850 and December 1850, Macfarlane wrote three essays for George Julian Harney's monthly, the Democratic Review and ten articles for his weekly paper, The Red Republican (which changed its name to the Friend of the People in December 1850). In 1851 Macfarlane "disappeared" from the political scene. Until recent research by Macfarlane's biographer David Black and BBC Radio Scotland researcher and broadcaster Louise Yeoman, very little was known for sure about her early and later life.Yeoman writes of Macfarlane:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a period drama must be in want of a feisty heroine who finds love at last. But our heroine, Helen Macfarlane was no fictional character and her life would have shocked Jane Austen's smocks off."
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