Acquisitions

2008.38.3

Colour photograph of an old reaper and binder at Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.

An old reaper and binder used by the descendants of Marion and Donald MacNeill from Hough who emigrated to South Africa in the 1870s or 1880s and settled at Tufthill Farm in the Eastern Cape (see photo K157).

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2008.38.2

Black and white photograph of John MacNeill with Pat Hobden in South Africa.

John Napier McNeill was born at `Argyle` near Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1881. He was the second child of Donald MacNeill from Hough and his wife Mary Napier who were married in Glasgow in 1877. John is holding his niece Vivienne Patricia Hobden (1924-1998), known as Pat, the daughter of his sister Sarah Currie MacNeill.

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