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First Conventions
For the Friends & Workers Fellowship
Revised December 31, 2022

Canada
United States
Australia
Ireland


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Canada

Toronto 1906
Alberta Mission Center 1908
British Columbia Nelson 1908
Manitoba Minnedosa 1906
New Brunswick Smithtown 1911
Newfoundland Paradise 1915
Nova Scotia  Dartmouth 1908 
Ontario Toronto 1906
PEI St. Eleanors 1913
Quebec Magog 1917
Saskatchewan Bredenbury 1911
NW Territory
Yukon Territory

United States

 

Alabama Brookwood 1928
Alaska Wasilla 1935
Arizona Glendale 1929
Arkansas Benton 1945
California Paso Robles 1906
Colorado Denver 1912
Connecticut None n/a
Delaware None n/a
Florida Kendrick 1923
Georgia Winterville 1910
Hawaii Honolulu 1929
Idaho Moscow 1914
Idaho Payette 1910
Illinois Chicago 1907
Indiana Pendleton 1910
Iowa Burlington 1916
Kansas Centralia 1911
Kentucky Lancaster 1911
Louisiana Shreveport 1933
Maine ? n/a
Maryland Baltimore 1908
Massachusetts Bellingham 1926?
Michigan Sunshine 1908
Minnesota Minneapolis 1908
Mississippi Jackson 1959
     
Missouri Jameson 1912
Montana Red Lodge 1915
Nebraska Petersburg 1907
Nevada None n/a
New Hampshire Milford 1936
New Jersey None n/a
New Mexico (English) Las Vegas 1935
New Mexico (Spanish) Peralta 1936
New York Niagara Falls 1908
North Carolina Roaring Gap 1911
North Dakota Sydney 1907
North Dakota Page 1912
Ohio Zanesville 1908
Oklahoma Tonkawa 1929
Oregon Canby 1909
Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1906
Rhode Island None n/a
South Carolina Clover 1925
South Dakota Chancelor 1916
Tennessee Chattanooga 1920
Texas Round Rock 1929
Utah Murray 1950
Vermont None n/a
Virginia Roanoke 1917
Washington Milltown 1911
West Virginia Hartford 1920
Wisconsin Janesville 1907
Wyoming Powell 1921

Conventions held in Australia:


NEW SOUTH WALES - Need Information


QUEENSLAND - Need Information

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
1915..............................................Bassendean First Convention held between the homes of the Radfords and Jacobs then known as West Guildford in March 1915; and also in 1916.


VICTORIA
1908 …………………................ First Convention at Northcote
1909 & 1910 ………………….. at Malvern
1911 & 1912 ………………….. at Warrandyte (possibly at Alexander Speers place)
1913, 1914, 1915 …………….. at Clayton, (Millards)
1916 until 1974 ………………. at Dandenong, except 1942 when Army in occupation
1918 until 1942 ………………. at Stoneyford
1928 until 1950 ………………. at Mildura
1950* until 1965 ………………at Larpent  (*should be 1957)
1966 ………………….............. at Yeo, (Colac)
1965 ………………….............. at Speed. Nov 19th
1973 ………………….............. at Thoona
1974 ………………….............. at Drouin

TASMANIA
1909, 1910, 1911 …………….. at Evandale
1912, 1913 ………………….. ..at Springfield
1914, 1915, 1916 …………….. at Scottsdale
1917 ………………….. ............at Ryndaston
1918, 1919, 1920 …………….. at King’s Meadows
1921 until 1934 …………….. ...at Talbots’s Sandhill
1935 ………………….. ............at Relbia

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
1909 ………………………Woodside township
1910 – 1926 ………………Wuttke’s farm. Woodside with exception in 1918 and 1919.
1918 ………………………Islington
1918 - 1919 ………………Bethel
1919 - 1951 ………………Blackwood Park
1935 ……………………..Oak Lodge
1952 ……………………..Wilmington
1928, Dec ……………… Willie John’s, West Coast
1930, April ……………..Milton Payne’s, West Coast

Some Australian conventions had a childrens' meeting tent; e.g. Dandenong in the 1940's.
This practice was discontinued.

EARLY CONVENTIONS
in IRELAND

1900 Portadown, Co. Armagh.
1901 Rathmolyon, Co. Meath.
1902 Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh. In wooden hall; mayhave been one at Rathmolyon also.
1903 Rathmolyon, Co. Meath & Lurgan, Co. Armagh.
1904 Crocknacrieve, Co. Fermanagh.
1905 Belfast, Mission Hall, Leadbetter Street.
1906 Belfast, Leadbetter Street, off Shankhill Road in a shed.
1907 Crocknacrieve, First large convention.
1908 Crocknacrieve, Large. & Rathmolyon.
1908 Crocknacrieve, Willsburgh, Co. Tipperary.
1909 Crocknacrieve.  Large.
1910 Crocknacrieve. Large.
1911 Crocknacrieve. Large.
1912 Nutfield, Co. Fermanagh;  also Carrick, Co. Laois - started and continues.
1913 Crocknacrieve. Smaller; Rathmolyon last for William Irvine.
1914 Crocknacrieve. Smaller.
1915 Crocknacrieve. Smaller
1916 Crocknacrieve. Smaller.
1917 No Conventions in Ireland owing to the war.
1918 No Conventions. Many smaller meetings.
1919 Scarva, Co. Monaghan; Knock, Belfast in a tent at McMeekins.
1920 Crocknacrieve and Scarva.  Last Convention at Crock.
1920 Eglish, Co. Tyrone. Large, in a tent.
1921 Eglish, Co. Tyrone. Second and last Convention there; Scarva: Tthird and last Conv. there.
1922 Derrybard, Co. Tyrone. Large, Downpatrick, Co. Down.
1923 Mullaghmeen, Co. Fermanagh, started, & Carnteel, Co. Tyrone, started and continues.
1923 Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, started and continues. Carrick.
1924 Mullaghmeen, Carnteel, Ballybay & Carrick.
1925 Mullaghmeen, Carnteel, Ballybay & Carrick.
1925 Taylorstown, Co. Antrim, started and continued until 1968.
1926 Mullaghmeen, Carnteel, Ballybay & Carrick.
1927 Mullaghmeen, Carnteel, Ballybay & Carrick.
1928 Mullaghmeen - last; Carnteel, Ballybay & Carrick.
1928 Greenhill, Co. Fermanagh, started and continued till 1939.
1940 Gortaloughan, Co. Fermanagh started and continues.

NOTES: The first three or four conventions on the list must have been small - really large meetings. There may have been a convention at Rathmolyon in 1902 but I am not certain. From 1912 onwards other conventions in addition to Crocknacrieve were started north and south, but as I have no record I have not included them.

The following is a list of the families at whose homes the conventions were held.

Crocknacrieve (John West)
Derrygonnelly (the workers stayed in David Donaldsons)
Rathmolyon (Hughes)
Willsburgh (Falkiners)
Nutfield (McClungs)
Scarva (Bothwells)
Eglish (Richardsons)
Derrybard (Humphreys) One year|
Carnteel (Reids)
Ballybay (Crookes, now Jennings)
Taylors town (Kellys)
Mullaghmeen (Wests)
Greenhill (Fugues)
Gortaloughan (Reids)
Downpatrick (Porters)
Carrick (Pearsons)

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