01 Australia Queensland Pioneers
Baartz, John & Garry Rohrlack 2
Begbie, Alice & Maude Kerns
Alice Begbie and Maude Kerns
Boon, George
George Boon
Bill Carroll & Jack Carroll
Bill and Jack Carroll, brothers from Ireland. Bill Carroll entered the work in 1903 and was the first Overseer of Victoria, Australia. He died in 1953. Jack entered the work in 1904 and became the general Overseer of Western Canada and the west coast of the US until his death in 1957. The Western area consisted of everything in Canada from Manitoba west, plus the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Montana & Wyoming.
Bill & Maggie Carroll 1941
1941 Bill & Maggie Carroll
Carroll, Bill, Maggie (1903) & Daughter May
Bill, Maggie & daughter May Carroll. William Charles (Bill) Carroll was the first Overseer of Victoria, Australia. Bill and his wife, Margaret (Hastings) Carroll were from the village of Rathmolyon, Ireland, located about 25 miles NW of Dublin. Bill Carroll was born August 15, 1876, at Newtown, Moynalty, Kells, County Meath, the eldest of 6 children. Margaret was born April 20, 1875. Bill Carroll and Maggie Hastings were married on June 6, 1901, in the Church of Ireland at Rathmolyon, County Meath and their daughter, May, was born in 1902. Bill and Maggie Carroll entered the work in 1903 and arrived in Australia in 1913. Maggie died in 1944 and Bill died in 1953. Bill's brother Jack and sisters May and Fannie were also workers until their deaths.
Grave - Bill & Maggie Carroll #1
Grave of William Charles Carroll and Margaret Elizabeth (Hastings) Carroll Located in the Presbyterian Section, Box Hill Cemetery, 395 Middleborough Rd, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. Location is PNS570. Margaret was buried on 6 May 1942, Registration No. 17230. William was buried on 13 November 1953, Reg. No. 26725.
2015 Malcom Clapham's Letter re No More Phone Hookups-with preamble
2015 Letter from Malcolm Clapham to Brisbane Elders in Queensland, Australia about discontinuing the use of 'phone hookups' at Conventions. Note the letter includes the phrase " ... dangers that may lie in the shadows if such was handled unwisely......
2015 Malcolm Clapham's Letter re No More Phone Hookups (ORIGINAL)
2015 (ORIGINAL LETTER) Letter from Malcolm Clapham to Brisbane Elders in Queensland, Australia about discontinuing the use of 'phone hookups' at Conventions. Note the letter includes the phrase " ... dangers that may lie in the shadows if such was handled unwisely......
Conv-Coopers Plains QLD
The last Coopers Plains Convention Queensland
Conv-Mungar QLD
Mungar Convention Queensland
QLD Rochedale 3-
Early Rochedale Convention Queensland
Hodgins, Polly & Frances
Polly & Frances Hodgins, Sisters in the work, from U.K. Helped to pioneered NZ. Their brother James died in 1907 in NZ, the first Worker to die in the entire world.
Irvine, William-Australia
1913 William Irvine in Australia with dog
McKay, Ross & Geo Boon
Ross McKay an George Boon
Murray, Archie 1913
1913 Archie Murray
Murray Archie 1
Archie Murray
Murray, A. & O. Beattie
Archie Murray and O. Beattie
Speers, Rose, May & Beattie
Rose, May and Battie Spears
Staier, Regina & Annie
Annie and Regina and Staier
Staier, Regina & Dorothy Goodman
Regina Staier and Dorothy Goodman
Sullivan, John
John Sullivan and Richard (Dick) McClure John Sullivan was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork 1874 and died in Australia 1924 a age 50, For a time he was a school teacher in Co. Tipperary, where he heard and readily embraced the truth. He soon afterwards went forth into the work- in 1900: he is the author hymn No. 13. He is on the 1905 Workers List and pioneered New South Wales, Australia. Richard (Dick) McClure entered work in Ireland in 1906. John Sullivan and Jack Little pioneered Queensland in 1905. The story is told that his sister's husband died died leaving her in distress. John felt he ought to help her, so with the work of his hands he built her a house and put her "on her feet," then he thought, if he could do this for another, he could do it for himself, thus a battle went on in his heart and mind until one day getting under a bush opposite the house to meditate and pray he settled the matter and got the thoughts for the hymn, finally putting them into hymn form on the ship on his way home for a visit to his native shores.
Tom Turner young-& older--300dpi
Tom Turner - younger and older Tom Turner as an older man. Thomas M. Turner comes from the North of Ireland; he was a school teacher in County Galway, when he heard the truth and also went forth in 1900 for a time in Ireland, and was one of the first to go to Australia. He wrote hymns 202, 236 and 265. Regarding No. 236, at one Convention someone said that would be a good subject for a hymn —"The Approval of God" — within a short time, the next meeting or so, the hymn was produced and sung. Tom was 81 years old when he died April, 1959.
Tom Turner, Jack Annard, Willie Hughes, Robert Blair
Tom Turner, Jack Annand, Willie Hughes, Robt Blair Thomas M. Turner comes from the North of Ireland; he was a school teacher in County Galway, when he heard the truth and also went forth in 1900 for a time in Ireland, and was one of the first to go to Australia. He wrote hymns 202, 236 and 265. Regarding No. 236, at one Convention someone said —"The Approval of God" —would be a good subject for a hymn and within a short time, the next meeting or so, the hymn was produced and sung. Tom was 81 years old when he died April, 1959. *********** Jack Annand was born in 1891 and died 1957. He worked on a farm as a lad, professed when 19 years old, went forth when he was 22, first in N.S. Wales, then Victoria (Aust.) then came to Poland and Scandinavian countries. He wrote wrote hymn Nos. 164, 241, 283, 316, and 321 and No. 319 while at Deb. Convention. *********** Robert Blair, who also laboured in New Zealand, was born at Otokia, near Dunedin N.Z. in 1874 and died in 1942. After selling some property left him in Scotland, he started out in the work in England, remaining two years before going to N.Z.where he was for several years, was for a time in Fiji, Samoa and Norfolk Isles, returning to Queensland where after 11 years he died. He wrote Nos. 185, 195, 235, 274 and 277. ]When he was in Exeter he pulled out a scrap of paper from his waistcoat pocket and asked another worker he met there if the verses he had written on it would do for a hymn. It is now hymn No. 276. *********** Willie Hughes laboured in N.Z. He wrote "Went forth" in 1906 and wrote Nos. 62, 66, 114 and 116
Waymouth, Carrie; Hilda Garlick & Ruth Harrison
Carrie Waymouth, Hilda Garlick and Ruth Harrison
Thumbnail Aust Queensland
Barbour, Robert, Archie Turner, Nelson Retchford
Robert Barbour, Archie Turner, Nelson Retchford. Robert Barbour from New Zealand, began as Overseer of South Australia in 1946. Archie Turner pioneered Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland in 1928, He labored in Canada; Overseer of Queensland Australia 1959-1971 and was Overseer of Scotland 1971. Nelson Retchford from South Australia entered work in 1924, preached mostly in India and South Australia He was one of pioneers to Burma (Myanmar) and he died in 1989.
1950 Lacey, Abernethy, Turner, WIlson, Childers
Ray Lacey, Andrew Abernethy, Archie Turner, Willie Wilson, Hubert Childers Andrew Abernethy was Overseer of Ohio, Indiana & New York at various times before succeeding George Walker as general Overseer of Eastern USA. He was succeeded by Taylor Wood who was succeeded by Barry Barkley in 2008. ________________________________- Archie Turner pioneered Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland in 1928, He labored in Canada; Overseer of Queensland Australia 1959-1971 and was Overseer of Scotland 1971.