"Scribblin Archie" McNeill

Archibald McNeill, who married Janet "Jennie Bhan" Smith is said not to have been related to Hector and Neill McNeill (the only sons of Laughlin McNeill of Scotland married Margaret Johnson), and NOT to have been of their clan. If they were related at all it was very distant. See THE BLUFF McNEILLS

"Malcolm Fowler claimed outright in his book, They Passed This Way, that Scribbling Archie was the son of Laughlin and Margaret Johnstone McNeill of Scotland but offered no proof. I do not support Fowler's claim, and do not believe that Daniel of Taynish was Archie's father, there being no proof for that claim either. In researching Daniel of Taynish, I strongly feel it is more likely that Daniel of Taynish and Archibald Bahn McNeill were most likely brothers, sons of Neill McNeill of Taynish and his wife Marie Campbell." See Archibald "Scribblin Archie" McNeill and Jennet "Jenny Bhan" Smith

biography from NCPedia, By Nancy V. Smith, 1991 - some erroneous info, but excellent color commentary.

tree by Melissa Hahne, but with wrong parents