File:Dallas McNeil and family on Fanning Island, ca. 1933.tif

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English: Dallas McNeil was employed on Fanning Island in the 1930s. Those in the photo are George Dallas McNeil (b.19/10/1891, d.08/10/1959), Elizabeth Ellen McNeil (Lizzie, b.01/01/1894, d.17/09/1951, nee Mullholland, or Miller), and their children, Robert James, (02/01/1921-11/07/1991), Isabelle Dallas, (30/06/1931) and Marjorie Coralie, (21/08/1934).

There is also a photo of Dallas and Lizzie with a comment “Romance Begun In New Zealand Ends Happily In Hawaii, Culminations of a remance of childhood days in New Zealand interrupted by an absence of years, came yesterday in Honolulu when George Dallas McNeil, chief engineer of the Pacific Cable Board at Fanning Island, and Miss Elizabeth Ellen Miller of Auckland, New Zealand, were married at the first Methodist Church. Rev. Daniel H. Klinefelter read the marriage service. The bride was given away by Capt. James P. Tait of the steamer Kestrel. Following a wedding breakfast at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tait, the young couple left for Hilo on the Mauna Kea and will spend their honeymoon at the Volcano House, Hawaii. They will sail for Fanning Island aboard the Kestrel October 8. Mr. and Mrs McNeil both hail from Auckland, where they played and fell in love with each other as children. Until a few days ago when the bride arrived on the (illegible), she and her husband had not seen each other for four years. Mr. McNeil is 29 years old and his wife is 26.”

I seem to remember Mum saying Auntie Lizzie came from Waiomu, near Coromandel and there was some doubt about her family name, even suspecting a German sound. The date I have for their wedding is 27/09/1919.
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