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- 1900 Convention
A convention gathering in Ireland in the early 1900's. - 1903 Ship Manifest
The first 3 Workers to go to America departed Glasgow, Scotland on Sept 5, 1903 on Ship Columbia, arrived Ellis Island, NY, Sept 14, 1903: William Irvine, age 40 yrs, Scotch (Passenger No. 18) George Walker, age 26 yrs, Irish (Passenger No. 19) Irvine Weir, age 25 yrs, Irish (Passenger No. 20) (SEE NEXT SLIDE) - 1903 Ship Manifest -closeup
1903 Ship Manifest - closeup of Workers in red (To 'Zoom in" click on Resize at left of screen -- select Original or XL) - 1903 Ship Manifest
1903 Ship Manifest - Workers in Red outline - 1905 Workers List-3
Note also that over the years several versions of this '1905 Workers List' have surfaced, some with a few more or less Workers. A comparison of the various lists is at: https://sites.google.com/site/2x2history/uk-history/early-workers - 1905 Brother Worker List by Alphabetical order
1905 Brother Workers in Alphabetical order. (Retyped) - 1905 Brother Workers List by Year into Work
1905 Brother Workers List by Year into Work - 1905 Irish Presbyterian
... 'It is believed that the originator of this somewhat erratic development was a Scotchman called Irwin, who at an early stage of this work enlisted the sympathy and help of an earnest young man, a native of Enniskillen, Mr. Edward Cooney, formerly an Episcopalian, who devoted himself to evangelistic work in various parts of Ireland, and a member of a most respectable family, ....' - 1905 List by Year into Work
1905 Workers List by the year they entered the work. (Retyped) - 1905 Sister Worker List by Alphabetical order
1905 Sister Worker List in Alphabetical order - 1905 Sister Workers by Year into Work
1905 Sister Workers by Year into Work - 1905 Workers List
1905 Workers List Note that over the years several versions of this '1905 Workers List' have surfaced, some with a few more or less Workers. A comparison of the various lists is at: https://sites.google.com/site/2x2history/uk-history/early-workers - 1905 Workers List Original & Retyped Version
Note that the original '1905 Workers List' is difficult to read. Here is the original list and a re-typed '1905 Workers List' that is formatted as was the original and should be easier to read the names. Note also that over the years several versions of this '1905 Workers List' have surfaced, some with a few more or less Workers. A comparison of the various lists is at: https://sites.google.com/site/2x2history/uk-history/early-workers - 1905-1907 Pioneer South Africa Workers
The first workers arrived in South Africa in 1905 and others followed the next 2 years - 1905workers BEST
List of the First Workers, July 1905. Wm. Irvine and John Kelly listed at the top with no date. John Long shown as entering the work in 1899. Note also that over the years several versions of this '1905 Workers List' have surfaced, some with a few more or less Workers. - 1906 Crock knife
Knife used in 1906 Crocknacrieve Convention. Willie Allen was a Worker. - 1906 June 21
Impartial Reporter: Quote of Wilson McClung (early worker)] 'And who are ‘we?’ ‘We have no name,’ he replied, ‘but the ribald multitude give us many. Some call us Cooneyites, some call us Tramps, Faith Missionaries, No Secters, Women-Thieves, and so on. Well, we are Cooneyites. We are also McClungites, for Cooney is no greater than I. We have no established leader in this world. ‘Our mission was started by William Irwin, a Scotchman, seven or eight years ago. Others followed him. I myself was a Civil Servant in Dublin. I resigned my post, sold all that I had and gave to the poor, and went out to preach. 'Our mission was started by William Irwin, a Scotsman, seven or eight years ago. Others followed him.......' - 1906 Toronto Convention List
1906 Toronto Convention List ---- 62 Total Workers - 1906 Toronto Convention List
1906 Toronto Convention List. This convention was the first convention in North America and was held in Toronto, Ontario in 1906. A 15' x 40' tent and a rented house were used. (Original copy) - 1906 Toronto Ontario edited clarity
1906 Toronto Convention List. This convention was the first convention in North America and was held in Toronto, Ontario in 1906. A 15' x 40' tent and a rented house were used. (Original copy - edited for clarity) - 1906 Toronto Ontario
1906 Toronto Convention List. This convention was the first convention in North America and was held in Toronto, Ontario in 1906. A 15' x 40' tent and a rented house were used. (Original copy) - 1906 Toronto Ontario both
1906 Toronto Convention List. This convention was the first convention in North America and was held in Toronto, Ontario in 1906. A 15' x 40' tent and a rented house were used. (Original and clarified copies) - 1907-08. Early Workers efforts
1907-08. Early Workers efforts - 1910 August 25 pg 2
' Change of doctrine has made things different for many, especially for those who were not originally converts of Mr. Wm. Irvine or Mr. Edward Cooney, because unless you hear or believe through a Tramp Preacher, they say there can be no possibility of spiritual, divine life, past, present or future. It is immaterial how definite your aspirations or what quickening towards God may have been wrought in your heart or soul previously. So that in other words, derivative or ancestral Christianity is now re-established by William Irvine and Edward Cooney only.....' - 1910 August 25 pg1 WI Founder
Impartial Reporter page 1: Wm. Irvine, the founder and supreme authority of what is known as Cooneyism, is a Scotchman. His native place is Kilsyth, a small town near Glasgow. Before he became a Tramp he had attached himself to the sect know an the Faith Mission or Pilgrims, and was the manager of a coal mine under Baird & Co., Glasgow, and enjoyed a salary of £300 a year. William Irvine left this employment and joined the Faith Mission, under the control then of J. G. Govan, of Rothsay, who still holds conventions after the manner followed at Crocknacrieve, but on a much smaller scale. - 1910 August 25 pg1 WI Founder2
(Blue Highlight) Wm. Irvine gave up his connection with that sect (Faith Mission) for two reasons, according to my information --- 1st, because the leader was alleged to have been a ‘hypocrite,’ in that while teaching Pilgrims to live by faith he himself had over hundreds of pounds. 2nd, because Mr. Irving’s converts always lapsed and were lost among the clergy by going back to their own congregation or what is known as the churches. Consequently a small number of preachers and some from the Faith Mission, along with one named John Long, (who was rejected three years ago, because he would not maintain that John Wesley had gone to hell) and about a dozen stood by Wm. Irvine, and they had difficulty in knowing what to preach as the only true gospel, which same difficulty still exists to-day and has been the debate of many Conventions, and I suppose is now and will yet be. However, the chief motive power was latent until Edward Cooney heard Wm. Irvine, and offered him money and even a salary yearly, which was refused by Irvine. At all events 1,300 pounds from Mr. Cooney alone was applied to the cause, and has been preached as having been ‘given to the poor,’ on the authority of, ‘Sell all that ye have, …”. Yet as a matter of fact, this sum was mostly paid to transport preachers to places abroad, and not to the poor, as in sometimes understood, the fruit of which even yet in some measure returns annually to Crocknacrieve Convention. - 1910 East London SA
1910 First Convention held in East London, South Africa - 1910 Irish Convention 1
1910 Irish Convention -- Location unknown George Walker and William Irvine (with dog) are in the front row. - 1910 Irish Convention 2
1910 Irish Convention. George Walker and William Irvine (with dog) sitting in front row. - 1910 Irish Convention
1910 Irish Convention. William Irvine is man on far left, second row, looking to the left. - 1910 Irish Convention
1910 Irish Convention - Location unknown William Irvine is in 2nd row -left side of photo. - 1910 July 5
Cooneyite Convention The Cooneyite "Dippers" or "Tramp Preachers" have just opened a Convention at Crocknacrieve, the residence of Mr. John West, near Enniskillen......... Mr. Wm. Irvine, the founder of the sect, is in attendance and Mr. Edward Cooney, his chief lieutenant, is returning from Canada to take part in the deliberations.... ' - 1910 July 7
...'Over one thousand "Cooneyites" from all parts of Ireland and from England and Scotland, have assembled to hold their annual Convention, and delegates from New Zealand, Australia, America and Canada are expected to arrive in a few days.... Nearly all the 'visitors wear black dresses and plain sailer hats. Services are held daily, and the principal preacher is Mr. Wm. Irvine, one of the founders of the sect, who was formerly and engineer in Scotland. Mr. Edward, the son of a wealthy Fermanagh merchant, who joined the sect some years ago, and who for the past four months has been preaching the new doctrine in Canada is expected to arrive at Crockaecrieve before the convention closes. At each service two or three members of the sect relate the story of their "conversion" and renounce their former religious associations. The "Pilgrims" do not believe in any of the Christian churches and at the principal meetings clergymen of all denominations are vigorously denounced...... - 1910 West Point Nebraska Convention
1910 Convention West Point, Nebraska Victor & Kate Landholm's Place. FIRST ROW: Hazel Taylor, Hazel Hannah, Jesse Patterson, Dessie Dick (later married Hugh Doak), Grace Hoops, Mamie Werner, Martha Sprague; SECOND ROW: WILLIAM IRVINE, Clara Johnson, Grace Burell, Anna Taylor, Leroy Shaw (yes! a woman named Leroy) Jean Weir, Charlotte Brayton, Anna Hestikind, Jeanie Allison, Jean Craig, Maggie Stewart, GEORGE WALKER; THIRD ROW: (staggered): Frank Wilkie, Ed Pool, William Armstrong, Hugh Nelson, Collin Smith, Willie Weir, Hugh Matthews, Titus Larson, Tom Patterson, John Doak, Will Jackson, Hugh Doak, Willie Koehler, John Adams, Earnest Gordon, Will Wilkie, Rensler Wilkie, Frank Jones, Glen Smith (the hymn writer). - 1911 or 1912 Warrandyte, VIC Conv
1911 or 1912 Warrandyte Convention in Victoria - 1912 KY Lancaster (or Bybee?)
1912 Lancaster (or Bybee) Kentucky USA Convention. - 1912 Nutfield Convention-Group
1912 Nutfield, Fermanagh Co., Ireland Convention Group photo - 1912 Nutfield, Ireland Convention
- 1912 Nutfield Sister Workers
1912 Nutfield, Fermanagh Co., Ireland Convention Sister Workers - 1912 Nutfield-Brothers
1912 Nutfield, Fermanagh Co., Ireland Convention Brother Workers