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Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumalanga
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Click to view map Coordinates: | Royal Hotel was established by John Mclntyre at the turn of the century and said to have originated as a church in Maputo, where it became too small for the congregation. Its corrugated iron walls were hauled overland to Pilgrim's Rest and re-erected for the hotel. Typical of a prefabricated building. (Picton-Seymour, 1989: 182) Visit the Pilgrim's Rest website. _____________ The Royal Hotel was built by George Edward Roy in 1894. In 1877 the nineteen year old George Roy was digging on the Pilgrim's Rest Goldfields. In 1882 he married Sarah Helen McLachlan, daughter of the gold digging pioneers, Tom and Emma McLachlan. The Roy family stayed on at Pilgrim's Rest after Benjamin's Company obtained the mining concession on the Goldfields. George owned the hotel until 1913 when he sold it to John McIntyre. Honest John McIntyre was a Scotsman and a good businessman. He also owned a number of properties in Lydenburg where his wife and two daughters stayed. His family only visited Pilgrim's Rest once in a while. The McIntyre's owned a beautiful carriage and were locally known as the Royal Family. John McIntyre persuaded one of his brothers, Neil McIntyre, to join him at Pilgrim's Rest and one of their nephews, Cameron MacFarlane also followed the two brothers to Pilgrim's Rest. In 1913 McIntyre and John Alcock came to an agreement to each use half of the empty stand between the hotel and Alcock's business. McIntyre extended his hotel building and Alcock his shop. John McIntyre died in 1929 and his two daughters Otley Sibyl McIntyre and Ulva McIntyre inherited the hotel. McIntyre's Estate let the hotel premises and the business to Cameron MacFarlane. In 1939 the lease was officially transferred into the names of Otley Sibyl Page, wife of Major Sidney Maynard Page, the Chief Magistrate of Johannesburg, and Ulva Anderson, the wife of John Everard Blackie Anderson. In 1941 they sold the business to Cameron MacFarlane and the lease was transferred into the name of his wife Sheila Marguerite MacFarlane (née Lilley). In 1945 MacFarlane sold the hotel to Josip Stipec, an immigrant from the Croatian Littoral. Stipec sold the hotel to Walter John Louis Guest in 1950. Walter Guest died in 1964 and the property was inherited by June Elizabeth Guest, who owned the hotel until 1972. The Famous Royal Hotel pub was originally the Roman Catholic chapel of the St Cyprian's School in Cape Town. The chapel was demolished and transported via Maputo to Pilgrim's Rest where it was re-erected as part of the Royal Hotel. (Rene Reinders. 2016:Item 30. Submitted by Annelise Lange) Books that reference Royal Hotel
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