- 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. - Bill & Maggie Carroll - Wedding, 1901
1901 Bill and Maggie Carroll Wedding 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. She was from Coragh, Rathmolyon, Co. Meath, Ireland. They were married on June 6, 1901, in the Church of Ireland at Rathmolyon, County Meath. Their daughter 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. - Bill Carroll & Jack Carroll
Bill and Jack Carroll, brothers from Ireland. Bill became the first Overseer in Victoria, Australia Jack was the general Overseer of Western Canada and the west coast of the US until his death in 1957. - Bill & Maggie Carroll 1941
1941 Bill & Maggie Carroll - 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 young-older--300dpi
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. - Irvine, William-Australia
1913 William Irvine in Australia with dog - Tom Turner young-300dpi
Tom Turner as a younger man - 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...... - 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. - Waymouth, Carrie; Hilda Garlick & Ruth Harrison
Carrie Waymouth, Hilda Garlick and Ruth Harrison - Clapham, Malcolm-Letter re No More Phone Hookups
- Murray, A. & O. Beattie
Archie Murray and O. Beattie - Murray, Archie 1913
1913 Archie Murray - Speers, Rose, May & Beattie
Rose, May and Battie Spears - Overseer- Sullivan, John; Dick McClure
John Sullivan and Dick McClure - Boon, George
George Boon - McKay, Ross & Geo Boon
Ross McKay an George Boon - Baartz, John & Garry Rohrlack 2
- Begbie, Alice & Maude Kerns
Alice Begbie and Maude Kerns - Conv-Coopers Plains QLD
The last Coopers Plains Convention Queensland - Murray Archie 1
Archie Murray - Staier, Regina & Annie
Annie and Regina and Staier - QLD Rochedale 3-
Early Rochedale Convention Queensland - Staier, Regina & Dorothy Goodman
Regina Staier and Dorothy Goodman - Turner, Tom (1899), Jack Annand (1913), Willie Hughes (1906), Robert Blair
Tom Turner, Jack Annand, Willie Hughes and Robert Blair 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, iIt is now our No. 276. - Conv-Mungar QLD
Mungar Convention Queensland