An account of the donor`s search for her Scottish ancestors in South Africa
Account of Gail Roethlin`s search for her MacNeill ancestors in South Africa, plus copies of the marriage record for Donald MacNeill of Hough and Mary Napier, and two census records for 1851 and 1871 giving Mary`s family.
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).
Colour photograph of an old Spider Phaeton carriage used by the MacNeill descendants at Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa, in the early 1900s.
Colour photograph of old forge tools from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
Old tools used to shape metal in the smiddie at Tufthill Farm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Colour photograph of an old vice and drill press from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
An old vice and drill press from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
Colour photograph of an old fruit peeler from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
An old fruit peeler from Tufthill Farm in East Cape, South Africa.
Colour photograph of the descendants of Marion MacNeill from Hough.
Descendants of Marion Brown née MacNeill, born at Hough in 1841, taken 18th December 2005 in Stutterheim, East Cape, South Africa.
L-R: (backrow) Trevor Bennet, Peter Lloyd, Pam Buchler, Gary Cawthorn, May Field, Neil Cawthorn (just showing), David Cawthorn, Robert Cawthorn, (middle row) Keith Cawthorn, Wendy Acton, Connie Cawthorn holding Jenna Richardson, Stanley Cawthorn, Heather Miles, Rita Petzer, (front) William Cawthorn.
Colour photograph of the descendants of siblings Donald and Marion MacNeill from Hough.
Descendants of the siblings Donald and Marion MacNeill from Hough, taken 6th January 2006 in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
L-R: Gail Röthlin (née McAdam), Beverley Cawthorn (née Hall), Stanley Cawthorn, Ian Cawthorn, Tgetg Röthlin, and Lynda Green (née Baillie).
Black and white photograph of Granny MacNeill in South Africa in the 1920s.
Mary Napier, wife of Donald MacNeill, with her daughter Sarah Currie MacNeill (b. 1892). Sarah married William Charles Vernon Hobden in September 1921.
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.
