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Title: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Monday 06 February 12 12:52 GMT (UK)
Margaret was my grandmothers sister. Margaret and John had Mary Fulton b 1875 and William 1877 in Scotland. They went to Australia  and had 10 more children.

Thanks to Roots Chat I have come in contact with 3 different branches of the family and put them in contact with one another. Are now planning a reunion in the fall of 2013

If any of these following names are familiar it would be great to here from you.

Mary Fulton b 1875 m. Saunders.. William b. 1879 m. Mary Dabnett..Elizabeth b 1879 m. William O`Connol..Janet b 1881 m Edward Dabnett..John b. 1884 m. Cora ?..Isabella b 1885 m Ernest Threadgold.. George Alexander b.1888 m Adelaide Dobie..  Samuell b. 1890 m. Mary Farrell.. James Roy b. 1892 m. Clara Howard..Margaret b.1893 m. Russel Stone..Charles b. 1896 m Emilie Eustice.. David Walter b 1897 buried, Randwich cementery, Sydney, 1920. David was a POW in WW1, died later from the results of his imprisonment.

Samuel started the first motorized mail route in Alice Springs abt. 1928

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Cheers.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Thursday 12 April 12 11:20 BST (UK)
Hi.

Just bumping this up again, still hoping to find som of these people.

Cheers.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: marcie dean on Thursday 12 April 12 11:29 BST (UK)
mary craig was my 4/5x grtgrandmother
marjorie
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: marcie dean on Thursday 12 April 12 11:35 BST (UK)
recently i went looking for more information on my graig family specifically alexander craig who i thought was married to margaret booth but found he was married to margaret gordon and as if i did not have enough campbels in my trees i found a craig married to a campbell, now i am going to look for my forbes amd my hamilton ancestors.
marji
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Thursday 12 April 12 11:54 BST (UK)
Hi Marcie.

Not sure we are looking for the same Craig families.

Can you PM me.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: Chatso58 on Wednesday 25 April 12 12:23 BST (UK)
Hi grandma
I have a Annie, Susan Craig on our tree, they were the daughters of Robert Craig and Martha Freeburn

Robert's parents were Samuel Craig and Annie McFettridge.

Annie and Susan came to Australia in 1926 the Craig family lived at
Bouverie Terrace Port Glasgow Scotland, the men in the family were ship makers. if any name sounds familier I would like to hear from you
          Chatso58
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Wednesday 25 April 12 12:37 BST (UK)
Hi Chatso.

Sorry, can`t help you here, these names are not my Craigs.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: Chatso58 on Wednesday 25 April 12 12:44 BST (UK)
Thank you for your reply
       Chatso58
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Sunday 22 July 12 02:39 BST (UK)
Giving this another go, maybe someone will see this, and reply.

Fingers crossed.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Tuesday 28 August 12 13:18 BST (UK)
One more year before the Irvine family reunion. Looking forward to meeting my Australian cousins.

There`s many more waiting to be found.
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Wednesday 07 November 12 12:46 GMT (UK)
Well now we are sending out messages for the reunion next Oct, and hoping for lots of replies.

Hoping for more contacts through Roots Chat.

Cheers.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: rysa95 on Saturday 12 January 13 00:10 GMT (UK)
Hi Chatso58, is Martha Freeburn the daughter of Samuel & Mary Ann Freeburn?

minoguefan
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Sunday 14 April 13 11:10 BST (UK)
Only 6 months to the Irvine/ Craig family reunion in Young. There are already quite a few who will be coming but hoping more will see this and get in touch.

I`ve got my ticket for the trip to Australia, my once in a life time!!

Cheers.

Mary.
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: Joan Hohnke on Tuesday 18 June 13 08:17 BST (UK)
Hello Mary,
I am one of your clan.My Grandfather, John Irvine, is the older brother of Isabel.  I have the list of all those brothers and sisters you mentioned.
I am really hoping to get to the reunion in Young.  I am the eldest  daughter of John Cameron Irvine & Marie Doreen O'Dwyer.  I have quite a bit of family history of our line from Pop & Nana Irvine down.  Pop & Nana- John Irvine & Cora Ella Gertrude Phillis (what a mouthful).  When they married in the Presbyterian Manse, Young in 1-10-1907, Pop signed his name Irvin (without the "e") and so did his sister Isabel Irvin.  John was born 2-1-1884 and died 20-11-1969 & Cora born 15-7-1885 and died 17-9-1968.  You probably have all this info anyway. 
Cheers for now
Joan Hohnke nee Irvine
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Tuesday 18 June 13 09:22 BST (UK)
Hi Joan.

Nice to hear from you and looking forward to meeting up with you and the others.

WEe`ll be in Australia from Sept 28 till Oct 15. Will be staying mostly with Andrea Pringle but also visiting with Colin Stone as well as some of the Irvine decendents  in Melbourne before going on to Young.

Looking forward to getting all your info too. Have a fair amount but not much of the later generations.

Cheers.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Tuesday 18 June 13 15:13 BST (UK)
Hi Joan.

Me again. Just had a mail from Andrea and she would like to get in touch with you. I`d like to have your email adr. but you aren`t allowed to put it on here.

If you post another couple of times here, I can send you a PM (Private message) and we can exchange e mail adr.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: Joan Hohnke on Wednesday 19 June 13 08:36 BST (UK)
Hi Mary,
So excited that you saw my message.  I am not much good at this computer stuff.  It is good they send an email to say you messaged me.  It takes me so long to do anything - by the time I lose it half a dozen times and so forth.
Are you on the Margaret Craig side of things?  I haven't got anything about her brothers and sisters.  It was such an accident that I fell on that web page Rootchat, and there you were.  I could not believe it.
I am so slack with getting all the family details together.  I have all the families if four different directions on the go - my parents and my husband's parents. Now I am trying to concentrate and get all the Irvine stuff up to date.  I did a phone call a couple of weeks ago and asked my cousin to correct what I had and add any more additions there might be.  I am still waiting, waiting,waiting......I am in contact with Carmel Irvine in Wagga and Pat Teale Cootamundra.They have my email address, so if Andrea knows them, we could make contact that way.
I am a Queenslander.  I have a two week holiday end of Sept and only get back with a few days to organise myself for Young.  Don't know how I am going to do it ??????  It is a long way to Young.
This w/e I am going on a scrapbooking workshop with 40 ladies.  We have been doing this yearly for some years - so looking forward to it.   Winter has just arrived, so I will need to take my electric blanket and warm clothes.  When we are all in the hall we create enough heat, it is just getting to the dorms and toilets outside.  We do it very quickly as you can imagine.
Cheers for now
Joan
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Wednesday 19 June 13 11:02 BST (UK)
Hi Joan.
So glad you got right back to me. One more posting and we can send private messages and can get your email adr. Will tell Andrea and she can contact Carmel. Dont worry about making mistakes on here , it took me a bit of time to understand it all, old age you know. Roots Chat is wonderfull, would never have found my Australian cousins without it. came in contact with 3 different people and could put them in contact with one another They didn`t know each other even existed. I met Andrea 2 years ago when she was in Scotland and last year met Colin Stone in London. he is also going to the reunion. My grandmother was Isabella Craig, Margaret Craig Irvines, sister.She enden up in Canada. Have all the Craigs accounted for and will be able to give you it all. There was 10 children of George Craig and Mary Fulton. Have also traced George Craigs, family as well as Mary Fulton. Will be also meeting with a Fulton decendent who lives in Marybourgh and he has piles of info on that branch. I`m a Canadian but live in Norway, came here 47 years ago after marring a Norwegian, One more posting and we can send a PM and exchange mail adr. Will ask Andrea to contact Carmel as well.
Cheers,
Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Thursday 20 June 13 07:59 BST (UK)
Hi Joan.
Got your PM but could you please send another with your email adr and then we can mail directly.

Mary
Title: Re: John IRVINE and Margaret CRAIG family reunion
Post by: grandma on Thursday 20 June 13 08:36 BST (UK)
Joan.

Have PM,d my email adr,

Mary