Catherina Neyhoff's family and mother lived in Cape Town. She had an affair with Philip MacLaclan who had come to Cape Town in 1816 to 1819. A son was born to them called Jacobus Petrus MacLachlan. Phillip went on to marry Johanna Semler and they had a family. Really I should try to trace him as well. After all he is my distant relative and all the direct males will have his Haplogroup from Scotland, including The Rev Bishop Andrew Charles Maclachlan/McLaglen and all his sons: Frederick Charles Albertus; Leopold Sidney Temple; Victor De Biers; Arthur; Lewes Mowbray Rutgers; Clifford Hendrick(my father); Cyril Rochford; Kenneth Diefries Christian; and Lillian Marian McLaglen who became Mrs Lance Tweedie. They were mostly bprn in the Mile End Hospital including Victor. They first lived in Limehouse which was by the docks, and their mother lived in Lichfield Road off the Mile End Road. Eventually they moved to a house on the Chiswick Road in Gunnersbury called "Roma" after the first female grand daughter. Many became famous. The bishop worked hard to help the poor, particularly the poor and starving children of London Town which was supposed to be the richest country in the world but it neglected those poor children and beggers. He knew Dr Barnardo and he helped to run the soup kitchens under St Martins in the Field and the Silver Soup Kitchens on the Embankment on the River Thames in London, and helped young lads to earn a living by donating to them a kit and run as "The Boys Boot-Blacking Brigade".
In Cape Town, which I visited in 1999 in October the city was very different when Catherina lived there with her mother. The sea was still lapping up much further as ther powers that be had not filled in the shallow part yet, on which they built the Train Station and a bridge over the line and quay. In the old days the fishermen would have to drag their boats up, but later they could pull up their craft at a landing. Now there are many landings and a marina. Many of my ancesters were master marinas and fishermen. Grietze MacLachlan who is in the almanac lived with MacLachlans on either side of her as she brought up her 5 children. She had lived in Primrose St near the Castle when she was young and her relatives name "Rutgers St" was off Sir Lowry Road where her brother "Oom" or uncle as her children would have called him Jan Rutgers ran his hotel and shop. Catherina's family were close by. I will write some more about her when I get a response.
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