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Hardie, John (1900)
1900 John Hardie was from Scotland and became Overseer in Australia. He is on the 1905 Workers List and helped pioneer Victoria and New South Wales.
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.
McClure, Dick (1911)
Dick McClure pioneered Sydney, Australia with John Hardie in 1907 Dick McClure was one of eight workers left Liverpool, England on the SS Orwestry Grange on Nov. 13, 1906, arriving in Wellington, NZ on Jan. 30, 1907
Williamson, Joe & John Clarke
Joe Williamson and Tom Clarke. J. Williamson was from the UK and entered the work in 1903. He pioneered the South Island with Adam Hutchison and two Sister Workers in 1906.
Hardie, John & Dick McClure
Dick and John Hardie pioneered NSW in 1907. Dick McClure was one of eight workers who left Liverpool, Engand on the SS Orwestry Grange on Nov. 13, 1906, arriving in Wellington, NZ on Jan. 30, 1907.