I occasionally take an interest in my great-great-grandfather David Cargill (1809-1843), the missionary who developed Fijian spelling and stumbled on the phonemic principle 50 years before it was re-discovered and named in Europe. A fine scholar but, on the evidence of this picture and of his writing, one without a sense of humour.
Margaret Cargill nee Smith, Cargill's first wife who died in Fiji. Mission station at Viwa, Fiji. Chapel at Viwa. Margaret Jane Smith, Cargill's mother-in-law. Jane Smith, Cargill's sister-in-law. Mary Cargill, his fourth daughter, born in Fiji, and later married to W.E.Wilkie Brown. William Elmslie Wilkie Brown, Cargill's son-in-law
and minister of Bannockburn. Margaret Brown, Cargill's granddaughter, later Lady Margaret Hamilton of Balmacara, photographed wearing court dress for a royal occasion. Sir Daniel Hamilton of Balmacara.
The last two pictures have been loaned to the National Trust for Scotland and are used in the 2002 edition of their guidebook to the Balmacara Estate.