Michael "Gobha" MacNeil, #268 & #270

Note: In "History of Christmas Island Parish", Murdock Beag is said to have had 2 sons named Michael whereas in "All Call Iona Home" in Family #268 he is only listed as having 1 son named Michael.

This Michael is based on the info in both sources.

Murdock "Beag" (Donald "Piper") MacNeil settled in Washabuck Bridge. He married, in Barra, Nellie Robertson, daughter of Robertson of the Kirk Sessions of Barra, and their family: Hector, John, Ann, Michael, Mary, Peggy, Lucy, and Sarah. 268

Michael (Murdock "Beag"), a blacksmith, lived in lona. He married Jane MacIntyre, Big Pond and had a son, a merchant at Grand Narrows, who married Josephine (Norman) MacNeil, Arichat. 270

Donald McNeil (John the Piper) and his descendents. This Donald was a brother of Neil Geal. He came to this country in 1817. He had a family of seven sons, and one daughter, the wife of Murdock McKenzie (Hector).

Michael (Gobha) settled at Iona, and married Jane Mclntyre, of Big Pond, a daughter of Iain Gobha.

Their son Rory was merchant at Grand Narrows, and married to Josephine C. McNeil, daughter of Norman McNeil (Malcolm), of Arichat. No issue.
Malcolm was a blacksmith.
Sarah and Catherine were telegraph operators.