cynthiamclaglen on Family Tree Circles

These names are from my family living in Cape Town in 1819 to the present. The particular branch that is my family left South Africa and went to London in about 1879. The family of Jacobus MacLachlan married Grietze Rutgers and had 5 children. Jacobus or James's father was Philip and his Mother was Catherina Neyhoff. The Rutgers were a seafaring family and so were the MacLachlans. All were Master Mariners. Jacobus was a printer. There is a street named after Rutgers in Cape Town. The picture is Grietjie Rutgers brother called Jan Rutgers. Grietjie married Jacobus Petrus MacLachlan (The name was changed by a Dutch clerk into McLaglen.)Jan helped her when Jacobus died as she had to look after 5 children.

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.
cynthiamclaglen

My Genealogist, Shiela Pike in Cape Town, found all that I relate here about Caterina and her relationship with the MacLachlans or McLaglens as the Dutch clerks wrote them at times, in Cape Town South Africa.
Philip McLACHLAN of Glasgow, Scotland and Anna Magdelena Adriana Semler, born Cape of Good Hope married 13th August 1824 (A1939 1/2/1)

Cape Town: 4TH March 1821 James Philip, illegitimate son of Philip McLachlan and Catherina Petronella Neyhoff born 15th Jan 1820. Sponsors: Alexander Anderson, Hendrik Neyhoff, Rachel Ovenhyzen,

As far as Mrs Pike could find out these McLachlans came from Scotland in 1819 (after terrible crop failures in Ireland Scotland and parts of Europe caused by the Volcanic eruption called Tambora,in 1816 aftter which it was dark for months on end;no wonder people wanted to emigrate.)

Another Catharina Neyhoff went to China,with James MacLachlan from Cape Town."Surely C P Neyhoff is a relative of your Catherina.
Jacobus Petrus McLAGLEN b.Cape Town 1819. Died insane,Robben Island 16 Sept 1856 aged only 37 years. Father James McLaglen(or MacLachlan as he is officially written in some documents) AND MOTHER:Catharina Neyhoff. He was a printer & he probably ingested lead through the printing ink during work, over a long period.He married Grietze or Margarita, or Margaret, or Gerita RUTGERS grand daughter of Krijn RUTGERS a sea captain whose diary was left in the Africaans Library in Cape Town where it was found by Mrs Pike who got it microfiched and sent to me. I got it translated into English. There is a street named after Rutgers in Cape Town.
4124/56 Jacobus Petrus McLaglen (McLachlan)// 1330/90 Grietje Rutgers, his widow
92/86 Jcobus Petrus McLAGLEN (McLachlan) MOOC 6/9/228;282; 76; 85/100) 31/291.
Later Mrs Pike wrote: I looked for Neyhoof in the Villiers Pama book but it was not mentioned.Then: Christina Catharina Neyhoff, widow of Francis Lamoer de Manielle 8901/47 19/293 5623/42-3 Christoffel Hendrick Neyhoff, no estate numbers.
Jacobus Petrus McLaglen died 1856 Robben Island. Grietje was his widow , had a small shop behind Cape Town Castle but could not make ends meet enough to support her children, plus keep her husband on Robben Island while he was still alive; so applied for an allowance for him.
More Neyhoffs: 6/9/42 nO. 8901/ 1847 cATHARINA jOANNA (NEYHOOF) DE MANIELLE Death Noticeand 5623? 42-3 cHRISTIAN hENDRIK |nEYHOFF.
Chris.12 Sept. 1866 John Charles 2 July 1866 born to Carle Hendrick and Sophia Neyhoff 46. Hanover Street, Cape Town. ButcherSt Georges Cathedral.
Charles Henry Neyhoff aged 21 married Rosa Antoinette Johnson 5th Jan 1863 (cOACHMAN) She was 21 and a spinster
Catharina Neyhoff born c.1798.
I found a nEY HOFF IN nEW yORK THIS CENTURY AND THAT IS THE LAST ONE I FOUND.
AT ANY RATE THE Catharina Petronella Neyhoff of Cape Town in the early 1800s IS MY DIRECT FEMALE ANCESTER, MY GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
Cynthia B McLaglen June 2008