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 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).
Seven wall posters about the archaeology of Tiree and Coll.
A collection of seven wall posters about the archaeology of Tiree and Coll and the surveys at the Hough stone circles.
Journal extract `Crofters` Common Grazings in Scotland` by James R. Coull.
Paper on common grazings in Scotland with references to Kenovay, Salum, Barrapol, Hough, Balephuil, Ruaig, Hynish and the Reef.
Printout from Inveraray Jail website about six Tiree men charged with plundering a wreck near Hough in 1834: John Beaton, Archibald Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, Malcom MacMillan, Peter MacDonald and James Black.
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Minidisk recording of a Feis lecture titled `Secrets of the Stones` given by Darko Maricevic at Tiree High School on 10/7/2007.
Feis lecture by PhD student Darko Maricevic from Reading University about the stone circles at Hough,
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project, Report No. 4, March 2007.
Reports on the Bishop Collection at the Hunterian Museum, pottery sherds from Salum Bay and a geophysical survey of the site, and geophysical surveys of the stone circles at Hough and St Patrick`s Chapel on Kennavara.
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project, Report No. 3, January 2006.
Report on chipped stone from various sites on Tiree, a preliminary evaluation of the pottery found on Tiree, a catalogue of the metal objects in the Holleyman collection and the results of geophysical surveys of the stone circles at Hough, the Kirkapol chapels and archaeological sites in the Balephuil area.
Tufthill Farm, South Africa
Photograph of Tufthill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Courtesy of Mr Stanley Cawthorn
Marion MacNeill was born at Hough in 1841 and married Richard Brown in Glasgow in 1872. Five years later, her brother Donald married Mary Napier. Some time after that, the two couples emigrated to Eastern Cape, South Africa.
They had to contend with all that nature hurled at them, from torrential rain and hail storms to blazing heat and crop pests. Their nearest village and train station was Toise River about twenty-five miles away. Goods were fetched by ox wagon which took a full twelve hours for the round trip.
Births and deaths in the community were celebrated or mourned by all. When a neighbour died, the closest men turned out to lay out the body, put it into the coffin and hold the burial.
Black and white photograph of Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Marion and Donald MacNeill from Hough at Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Marion married Richard Brown in 1872 and her brother Donald married Mary Napier in 1877. Some after that both couples emigrated to South Africa.
Black and white photograph of Neil and Mary Brown in South Africa.
L-R: Neil and Mary Brown, the children of Marion MacNeill from Hough; Robert Weir, husband of Marion`s sister Catherine McNeil; William Cawthorn, who later married Mary around 1905.
