Edie McNeill was the sister of the arist's second wife, Dorelia. She lived with the artist's extended family at Alderney Manor where she supervised the kitchen and the younger children. She later married Francis MacNamara and their daughter Caitlin married the poet, Dylan Thomas
(See M. Holroyd, Augustus John: The Years of Experience, London, 1975, p.p.3, 85)