From Over Den Berg to Stone River: A History of the Old Hotel

Few buildings in McGregor have worn as many names, or passed through as many hands, as the two-storey building on Voortrekker Road that today houses Stone River. Over more than a century it has been a private home, a hotel, a restaurant, a liquor store and a corner shop — sometimes several of these at once — and its story is really the story of the village itself, told through one building’s changing fortunes.

A Victorian Villa Becomes a Hotel

The building’s core is thought to date to around 1890, when it was built as a single-storey Victorian house on the same plan as the Lion House further down Voortrekker Street — a typical layout of two stoepkamers bookending a timber-and-iron veranda. Lion House still stands much as it would have looked then, with its quoined corners and windows and a timber-panelled front door with sidelights, offering a good sense of what this building looked like in its earliest years.

That changed around 1936, when the property’s owner at the time, Mr Barry, added a full upper floor, transforming the modest villa into a proper hotel. The new floor was built in the Cape Dutch Revival style, with gables projecting out over the original stoepkamers and a concrete balcony — supported on precast Doric columns — replacing the old Victorian veranda. Even so, traces of the original house survived the upgrade: the stoepkamers are still there, along with their decorative corner quoining and the front door and sidelights that once matched Lion House’s.

The Barry Years

The hotel remained in the Barry family for some time after that. In 1948, a sixteen-year-old Ina Barry arrived in McGregor from Villiersdorp to take up the post of postmistress, responsible for both the post office and the telephone exchange. She lodged in a room at the hotel when she first arrived, and in 1962 married Fritz Barry. The couple went on to live in a house next to the shop Shiprah on Voortrekker Road, which the family still runs today — Tannie Ina remains a much-loved figure in the village.

Changing Hands

At some point the hotel passed out of the Barry family and into the hands of a lawyer based in Bonnievale. By 1988 it was being run by Dawn Meerholz, though she gave it up after about a year. Around the same time, the bar was kept by an elderly, taciturn man known simply as Piet, who lived upstairs and stayed on until about 1990.

In 1991, the hotel was bought by Inge and Arnold Nauhaus, who renamed it McGregor Haus and ran a well-regarded restaurant there — both contributed recipes to a village recipe book produced that same year. Ownership then passed to Syd Dixon, under whom the business leaned more towards a liquor store than a hotel. Two women, Dianne and Jill — known locally as the Wiccan, or White Witch — helped him run the place, and the three of them later joined newcomer Pat Werdmuller to help establish a local SPCA, carrying out animal rescue and clinic work in the village. Syd subdivided the property and built the bottle store behind the hotel, which he then ran separately.

The next owners, Peter Friend and his wife, converted the old bar area into a grocery shop, while Mrs Friend became known for making and selling excellent fish and chips. After the Friends, the building became home to the Jack and Grape restaurant, run by Margie Deegan, who still lives in McGregor today.

McGregor Village Inn, and Stone River Today

Somewhere along this long line of owners and names — from Over Den Berg to McGregor Haus to the Jack and Grape — the building eventually settled into its more recent identity as the McGregor Village Inn, the name still used for the building as a whole. Today, its pub is known as Stone River, the latest chapter in a building that has spent well over a century changing shape and name while remaining, in one form or another, at the very centre of village life.

A Village Divided: Apartheid-Era Segregation in McGregor

For all its charm, McGregor’s history carries the same scars as almost every other town in South Africa: for much of the twentieth century, the village was shaped and divided by law according to race. The story of that division — and of how the community lived around it — is a part of McGregor’s past worth remembering alongside its cottages and orchards.

Two McGregors, One Village

Like most small towns in the Western Cape, McGregor was physically split into racially demarcated areas under apartheid-era planning rules. The area along Voortrekker Road, toward the west of the village, was set aside for white residents, while the area at the eastern entrance to the village was designated for the coloured community. It was a layout imposed from above rather than one the village had organically grown into — part of a planning pattern repeated in towns across the country wherever the old Group Areas Act took hold. The legacy of that artificial split is still visible in the village today, in subtler ways than a map of two areas might suggest — in where newcomers to McGregor tend to settle versus where long-time families remain, and in the presence of what locals still call the “skeems”: the old government housing schemes built to house people who were relocated under the Act.

Page’s Halt: A Small Victory

Not every family accepted the Group Areas Act without a fight. Behind a white boundary wall in the village stand two houses; the one with a slightly crooked gable is still known locally as Page’s Halt. The Page family living there in the 1950s were told, like so many others, that they would have to leave and move to the eastern side of the village because they were classified as Coloured under the Population Registration Act. But one family member happened to work at the time in the very government department responsible for the reclassification, and was able to have the family’s name struck from the removal list. The house has remained in Page family hands ever since — a rare, small victory against a law built to make such victories impossible, and a piece of the village’s history now kept alive through local walking tours of the old part of town.

Land, Inheritance and Loss

The effects went beyond where people were allowed to live. Heritage researchers who studied McGregor in the early 1990s noted that large portions of land had been taken from residents under the Group Areas Act, and that families designated “Coloured” often couldn’t pass property down to their children at all: on the owner’s death, the land was simply auctioned off. Compared to many other towns, McGregor saw relatively few forced removals in the dramatic sense — but the slower erosion of land ownership through inheritance law left its own lasting mark on who owned what in the village, an imbalance still felt in the pattern of ownership today.

Faith and Learning Along the Lines

Religious and educational life reflected the same divide. While the Dutch Reformed congregation — served for forty years by Rev. Andrew McGregor, after whom the village is named — met in its own church, the Methodist church served as the local school for the coloured community during the week and as a place of worship on weekends. Many families in what is still known as the Ou Dorp trace their roots directly back to parents and grandparents who grew up attending that school, some of whom — the Damon family among them — were noted local herbalists as well.

Separate Bars at the Village Inn

Living Around the Lines

Even so, the picture on the ground was not always as rigid as the law demanded. People who grew up in the village in the 1980s recall a place that, in practice, often blurred the boundaries apartheid tried to draw — wandering freely between areas and using facilities, like the village library, that were technically off-limits under the law, seemingly without anyone making an issue of it. Daily rhythms nonetheless bore the marks of the system: many men left the village to find work in Robertson, Worcester or Ashton, often away for the working week, while basics like electricity did not reach parts of the village until the early 1990s, and children had to travel out of McGregor entirely to finish their final year of school until McGregor Primary School was built.

A Legacy Still Being Addressed

By the time heritage practitioners returned to study McGregor in the early 1990s, the imprint of this history was impossible to ignore. Their planning work acknowledged the legacy of the Group Areas Act only briefly, and looking back on it decades later, those involved have suggested that this part of McGregor’s past deserves far more attention than it has received — both in how the village’s heritage is told, and in how future planning decisions try to build trust and benefit across the whole community.

Sources: Marshallene Harris, “Childhood memories of the village of McGregor”; Jane Banks, “McGregor stories: From historical records and my memories”; and Karin Dugmore-Ström, “Conservation by Todeschini and Japha 1993” — all in McGregor Workshop: New Design in a Historic Context (Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa, 2021); and a local audio walking tour of McGregor’s historic streets, on the story of Page’s Halt.

A Brief History of McGregor

Legend has it that parents in the Breede Valley once admonished their errant children with, “Behave, or I’ll send you to McGregor!” Whatever truth lies behind the story, there’s no denying that McGregor has always been a little different — and all the better for it.

Tucked at the foot of the Riviersonderend Mountains, 20 km from Robertson along a good tarred road, McGregor is widely regarded as the best-preserved and most complete example of a mid-nineteenth-century town in the Cape. Its whitewashed, thatched cottages line quiet streets, hemmed in by mountains, wildlife and wine estates — a setting that has earned it a reputation as one of the true jewels of the Western Cape.

A Village Shaped by Isolation

A dirt road connects McGregor to the N2 via the Stormsvlei Pass, but the tar ends just beyond the village, near the start of the well-known McGregor-to-Greyton hiking trail over the Boesmanskloof Pass. It is this sense of physical isolation that has done more than anything to preserve the village’s nineteenth-century architecture. McGregor shares the climate of the Little Karoo: hot in summer, and cool to freezing in winter, when rain — and occasionally a dusting of snow on the surrounding hills — is not uncommon.

It was the quality of the farming land that first drew settlers to the area in the late 1700s. A handful of houses were built in the early 1800s, some serving as informal churches (a terrace of three, known as ‘Die Trein’, still stands in Voortrekker Street), others housing laborers, millers and a whip-maker.

From Lady Grey to McGregor

The village was only officially proclaimed in 1862, when it was divided into two-and-a-half-hectare plots. By 1905, all the land had been bought up by nineteen smallholders and farmers, whose names are recorded on a map now held in the McGregor Museum. An advertising poster from the time of the original auction claimed, rather optimistically, that the main road from the north to Cape Town would pass through the village. Neither that road nor the planned mountain route to Greyton through the Boesmanskloof Pass ever materialized — and the village has retained its peaceful, unhurried character ever since, its thatched cottages framed by vines, apricot trees and olive groves.

The settlement was originally named Lady Grey, a name it inconveniently shared with another town in the Eastern Cape, much to the confusion of the postal service. In 1904, the congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church chose to rename their parish and new church in Voortrekker Street after their much-loved former pastor, the Rev. Andrew McGregor, who had recently retired after forty years of service in Robertson. Two years later, in April 1906, the authorities — no doubt relieved to resolve the naming confusion — gazetted the official change to McGregor, a name that also happens to belong to one of the oldest and most honorable of the Scottish clans.

Preserving the Past

The McGregor Heritage Society

The McGregor Heritage Society exists to safeguard this legacy, promoting conservation awareness and continuing the development of the surrounding nature reserve. Unfortunately, preservation isn't always successful and the beautiful weathered ruins of the original post office and other buildings were bulldozed by a landowner a few years ago. Pictures of what was once there can be seen on our McGregor's Post Office page.

The McGregor Museum

Its work is complemented by the McGregor Museum, housed alongside the Tourism Office in the National Monument building on Voortrekker Street. Run informally by a dedicated group of volunteers — first organized under the leadership of Helaine Shand, whose own family ties to the village stretch back to the nineteenth century — the museum holds documents, letters, title deeds and artifacts relating to the area’s history from the late 1700s onward, including transcriptions of long-running water-rights disputes fought in the courts by the area’s pioneering farmers. Donations and loans of historical material are always welcome.

The Kampterrein: A History of the McGregor Secondary School

Long before it became known as the Kampterrein, this site was home to the village’s first school — and, for many years, its church as well. Its story is closely bound up with that of the village itself, and much of what follows is drawn from “A History of the McGregor NG Congregation,” a Master of Theology thesis by L. W. Breytenbach of Stellenbosch University, along with the surviving minutes of the old Lady Grey School Commission.

A Ward of the Robertson Parish

In the settlement’s earliest days, the growing community on Over-den-Berg — as Lady Grey was then also known — did not build its own church, unlike its neighbor Robertson. Instead, it was absorbed as a ward of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde parish of Robertson, and its spiritual needs were met, at first, by visiting clergy: the substitute minister Rev. W. Robertson of Swellendam, followed by Rev. C. H. de Smidt, Robertson’s first resident minister. From 1862, that role fell to Rev. Andrew McGregor — the man after whom the village would later be named. Because the Robertson parish was so large, McGregor could not visit Lady Grey often, and much of the day-to-day pastoral care fell instead to missionaries, chief among them Rev. Stephan Weich.

Breytenbach’s thesis notes that this arrangement placed a real burden on the community’s poorer members, who often lacked the transport or the means to travel to Robertson for services or confirmation classes. Over time, this hardship fed a growing desire among the Lady Grey congregation to break away and form a parish of their own.

“The first step taken was to nominate seven ‘Direkteure of the Lady Grey Ward’ at a meeting held on 10 March 1901. These seven members — all of whom would later serve on the first church council of the new parish — were tasked with preparing the way for separation, a duty they carried out with dedication.”

On the practical side, the fledgling parish already had land to build on: two erven donated by A. P. Brönn and earlier secured for church use by Rev. Weich. The seven directors also personally guaranteed the new minister’s salary for the first three years. Beyond these responsibilities, the new church council’s first task was to negotiate with the school commission over the shared use of school property. The two bodies eventually agreed that the church would have full use of the school hall, in exchange for paying half the building’s rates and taxes, and that the church council could use one room of the teacher’s house as a vestry, on condition that it built a replacement room for the teacher in its place. These negotiations set the tone for what would become a long and cooperative relationship between the church and the school in Lady Grey — soon to be renamed McGregor.

The School Commission Minutes

The school itself predates the parish split by several decades. Its commission’s surviving minutes open on 1 August 1867, with a meeting called to welcome a new teacher, Mr. Livesly. At that meeting, the commission agreed to buy the land the school stood on, along with its buildings, from Mr. J. P. van Reenen for £120. The property comprised four erven, two of which carried water rights, and the commission undertook to pay 6% interest on the purchase price from 1 January 1868. Rev. Andrew McGregor chaired the meeting, with the teacher acting as secretary.

A further meeting on 15 August raised nothing of great importance, but by 2 October the boundary beacons for the school land were being checked, and a committee of local residents — Messrs. S. Malherbe, J. F. Wessels, P. D. Geldenhuis, C. J. du Toit and F. J. de Wet — was appointed to see the purchase through. At a special meeting on 25 January 1868, the commission resolved to hold a country bazaar on 15 February to help raise the purchase price, and by 30 June, Rev. McGregor was able to report that he had written to Mr. van Reenen requesting the title deeds be delivered on 1 August, when the full amount would be paid. By then, £25 had already been collected, with a further £80 borrowed from a Mr. Erasmus to cover the rest. Yet by the end of August, no title deeds had arrived.

The matter dragged on for years. It was only on 17 December 1873 that the commission returned to the purchase in earnest, prompted by a letter from Mr. D. J. van Reenen — son of the original seller, who had since come of age. The commission decided that no further interest would be charged after the end of that year, given that no title deed had yet been produced. It wasn’t until 19 August 1874 that Rev. McGregor could finally announce that the deed had been received, and that he had settled the outstanding amount in full — £160, principal and interest together — with Mr. van Reenen.

With the land finally secured, the commission moved on to improvements. On 16 December 1875, it resolved to build a new residence for the teacher along with a new school building, both of which were completed by the contractor, Mr. A. J. Schoonwinkel, in September 1876.

Early Teachers

Mr. Livesly, welcomed in August 1867, remained at the school until the end of 1874, when he left for Mossel Bay. His successor, Mr. J. A. de Schmidt, served until the end of March 1884. A Mr. Collins of Graaff-Reinet was then chosen, on 29 March 1884, but never took up the post; the position went instead to Mr. Weich of Stellenbosch.

Life in the Old School

A vivid picture of daily life at the school survives in two student essays: one by van der Sandt de Villiers, formerly of Standard VI and son of the school’s headmaster, and another by A. van Reenen, formerly of Standard 5, published in the 1938 school yearbook.

“The school was formerly the [wine] cellar of the farm, and it had an earthen floor. The desks were large stumps over which planks were placed. Every Saturday, two girls had to smear the floor of the building [with cow dung], and two boys had to fetch water and scrub the desks.”

A new teacher’s residence and school building followed later. Religious services continued to be held in the school hall, and when the time came to build a separate school building, some in the community suggested simply enlarging the old school hall for use as a church instead. The idea proved unpopular: most residents preferred a purpose-built church, and the disagreement was eventually settled by circulating two separate collection lists — one for enlarging the school hall, the other for a new church. When the lists were presented to the church council, the school-hall list had raised nothing, while the church list had raised £1,700. The new church was built, and together with its pews and organ came to cost around £8,650; the manse followed later, funded partly by a £500 donation from Mr. C. Payne. Rev. Weber served as the first minister of the new church.

The same yearbook’s headmaster’s report records that the school had by then designed its own crest, bearing the motto “Always Higher.”

Piecing the Timeline Together

Taken together, the records suggest a fairly clear sequence of events: the school began operating in August 1867, initially in a converted cellar with distinctly rough-and-ready facilities. The teacher’s residence and a proper school building followed only later — and since the hall and the residence form part of the same structure, they were most likely completed together in 1876, a date consistent with the one carved into the gable of the hall. That inscription is not, in fact, the school motto, but a phrase in Hebrew carrying a religious message — fitting, given that the hall continued to double as a place of worship for roughly another twenty-five years. The date on the gable also lines up neatly with the paper trail: the commission only took formal transfer of the property in August 1874, after which the new school and teacher’s house — two separate buildings — were built, following the December 1875 decision to proceed, and delivered in September 1876.

A file on the history of the school is held in the museum cabinet. 

The village takes its name from the Reverend Andrew McGregor, a Scottish-born Dutch Reformed Church minister who was recruited to South Africa in the early 1860s and went on to serve the Robertson congregation for forty years, from 1862 until his retirement in 1902. He also ministered to the nearby settlement of Lady Grey, and it was in his honor that the village was renamed McGregor in 1905–1906, once the confusion of sharing a name with another Lady Grey in the Eastern Cape had become too much for the postal service to bear.

The link to Clan Gregor itself is one of name rather than any documented family tree. Under Highland Scottish tradition, anyone bearing the MacGregor or McGregor surname — or one of its many septs — is considered part of the clan, whether or not a direct line back to its chiefs can be traced. No genealogical record ties Rev. McGregor to a specific branch of the clan’s chiefly line; the connection he carried into the Overberg was simply the name itself, and the shared heritage, motto and history that come with it. It is a link locals have sometimes lost sight of over the years, even as another descendant carried the name to fame in its own right: Rev. McGregor’s great-grandson was the noted South African jazz pianist and composer Chris McGregor.

Clan Gregor: A History of the MacGregors

Clan Gregor is one of the great Highland clans of Scotland, famous both for its claimed royal descent and for the two centuries it spent outlawed after a long and bitter power struggle with Clan Campbell. The clan traces its line back to a son of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first King of Scotland — a heritage proclaimed in its motto, ‘S Rioghal Mo Dhream, “Royal is my Race.”

Origins in the Mists of History

The clan is thought to have taken shape in Scotland during the 800s. According to the MacGregors’ own tradition, the name descends from Gregor, a son of King Kenneth MacAlpin — a claim lent some support by Y-chromosome studies, which show the clan’s hereditary genetic markers to be consistent with those of other families claiming descent from the early Dalriadic kings. A second, competing theory holds that the clan instead descends from Griogair, son of Dungal, a joint ruler of Alba in north-central Scotland between 879 and 889 — though the genetic evidence does not support this version of events.

War and Dispossession

In the 14th century, during the Wars of Scottish Independence, the MacGregors fought at the Battle of Bannockburn under their chief, Malcolm MacGregor. The clan’s first chief on secure historical footing is generally agreed to be Gregor “of the Golden Bridles,” succeeded before 1390 by his son, Iain Camm, “of the One Eye.”

The clan’s fortunes turned sharply when King Robert the Bruce granted much of its land — including the barony of Loch Awe — to Clan Campbell. Driven from these lands, the MacGregors fought the Campbells for decades before being dispossessed almost entirely, retreating ever deeper into the Highlands until they were largely confined to Glenstrae. Landless and increasingly desperate, many turned to rustling cattle and poaching deer to survive, and grew so skilled at it that other clans took to paying them simply to be left alone.

One notable episode from this period is the storming of Castle Grant, originally a stronghold of Clan Comyn, said to have been taken in the 14th century by a combined force of the Grants and MacGregors. Clan Grant tradition holds that the slain Comyn chief’s skull was kept afterward as a trophy and heirloom at Castle Grant — one account even describing it as hinged at the crown and used to store documents — with a warning that the clan would lose all its lands in Strathspey should the skull ever leave the family’s hands.

The “Children of the Mist”

The chiefship passed into disarray when Iain of Glenstrae died without a direct heir in 1519, giving the Campbells an opening to meddle in the succession and press their claim to what remained of MacGregor land. In 1560 they dispossessed Gregor Roy MacGregor, who fought the Campbells for ten years before being captured and killed. His son Alistair inherited the chiefship but could do little to halt the persecution that was by now the settled fate of the “Children of the Mist” — a name earned, it was said, for the clan’s knack of vanishing into the Highland fog.

The Earl of Argyll and his Campbell allies were tasked with hunting the scattered MacGregors down. At Bentoik, around sixty clansmen made a defiant stand against two hundred men of Clan Cameron, Clan MacNab and Clan Ranald under Robert Campbell, son of the Laird of Glenorchy. Duncan Aberach, one of the MacGregor chieftains, his son, and seven others were killed in the fighting; despite inflicting heavy losses on their pursuers, the MacGregors were eventually overwhelmed.

The clan also fought the English at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, and in 1558 was drawn into a violent feud with Clan MacLaren after killing eighteen MacLaren men and seizing their farms — an incident that went uninvestigated for decades, surfacing only in 1604 when the MacGregors stood trial for a separate, equally bloody conflict with Clan Colquhoun, of which they were ultimately cleared.

That conflict with the Colquhouns culminated in 1603 at the Battle of Glen Fruin, where four hundred MacGregors routed a Colquhoun force of five hundred, three hundred of them mounted. Splitting into two parties to attack from front and rear, the MacGregors drove the Colquhoun horsemen onto the boggy ground of the Moss of Auchingaich, inflicting over two hundred casualties. It was a victory the clan would pay dearly for: Glen Fruin became the pretext for the proscription of the MacGregor name later that year. It would not be until the following century that the two clans made peace, when their chiefs met and shook hands on the site of the old battlefield.

Stripped of their lands and still surviving by rustling and poaching, the MacGregors’ troubles deepened after the king’s forester, John Drummond, was murdered in reprisal for hanging MacGregor poachers — a killing for which the clan’s chief was condemned by the Privy Council. In April 1603, King James VI issued an edict formally abolishing the MacGregor name, ordering that it be renounced on pain of death. The chief and eleven of his chieftains were hanged at Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross in January 1604, and the clan was scattered, many taking other surnames — Murray, King and Grant among them — to survive. They were hunted with bloodhounds through the heather, and it was not until 1774 that the persecution formally ended and the clan was permitted to reclaim its name.

Even neighboring clans were not spared. In 1606, around two hundred MacGregors and allied Catarans raided the cattle of Clan MacThomas, making off with some 2,700 head in what became known as the Battle of Cairnwell. Though the MacThomases eventually caught and defeated the raiders, much of the stolen herd had already been slaughtered out of spite, leaving several MacThomas clansmen financially ruined.

The Jacobite Uprisings

The MacGregors took up arms again in the 18th century during the Jacobite risings, fighting at the Battle of Glen Shiel in 1719 alongside their famous kinsman Rob Roy MacGregor, who was wounded in the action. During the 1745–46 rising, MacGregor men serving under the Duke of Perth fought as Jacobites at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745 and, the following year, at the Battle of Culloden.

Clan Profile

• Name origin: Son of Gregory (“flocksman”)
• Gaelic name: MacGrioghair, “Son of Gregory”
• Motto: ‘S Rioghal Mo Dhream — “Royal is my Race”
• War cry: “Ard Choille!” — “The woody height!”
• Pipe music: Ruaig Ghlinne Freoine — The Chase (or Rout) of Glen Fruin
• Crest: A lion’s head, erased and proper, crowned with a five-pointed antique crown
• Tartan: Red, green and white plaid — three dark green stripes on red, the middle stripe bisected by black-edged white
• Nickname: The “Children of the Mist,” for the clan’s reputed ability to vanish into the Highland fog

Notable Clan Members

• Rob Roy MacGregor (Robert Roy MacGregor), the clan’s best-known historical figure
• Chief Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, 7th Baronet, 24th Chief of Clan Gregor
• Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor (1912–1998), chairman of British Steel from 1980 to 1983 and of British Coal from 1983 to 1986, who worked alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1984–85 miners’ strike
• Ian MacGregor, former Chief Investment Officer of the Wellcome Trust, credited with growing the Trust into the world’s largest foundation and with overseeing the record-setting flotation of Wellcome Plc
• Dr. James Grierson MacGregor (1905–1989), Alberta engineer, historian and member of the Order of Canada, author of fifteen books on the history of Alberta
• Ewan McGregor, actor (b. 1971)

Septs of Clan MacGregor

Over the centuries, families forced to abandon the MacGregor name for their own survival adopted a wide range of alternative surnames, known as septs of the clan. These include: Alpin, Bain, Beachley, Black, Bowers, Bowie, Coleman, Comrie, Dochart, Dunn, Fletcher, Greer, Gregg, Gregor, Gregorson, Gregory, Greig, Grewer, Grier, Grierson, Grigg, Grigor, Gruer, Gudger, Johnson, King, Kirkwood, Lakie, Landless, Leckie, Lockie, MacAlpin, MacAdam, Macaldowie, Macara, Macaree, MacChoiter, MacConachie, MacCrowther, MacEan, MacEwin, MacGregor, MacGrigor, MacGrowther, MacGruder, Macilduy, MacLeister, MacLiver, MacNee, MacNie, MacNeice, MacNeish, MacPeters, MacPetrie, Magruder, Malloch, McGehee, McNish, Mor, Neish, Orr, Patullo, Peters, Petrie, Pippig, Roy, Skinner, Stirling, Stringer, White, Whyte and Willox.

For more on the clan’s history today, visit the Clan Gregor Society.