LOW family reunion 2014
Date: Saturday, 11 October 2014
Place: Nambour
The plan is to celebrate 150 years since James LOW and Christina (nee CAMPBELL) arrived to live on the Sunshine Coast. It will be a great time to get out all the old photos and stories. Much new research has been done and so there will be much to display and talk about.
Background
Twenty-eight members of the LOW family migrated from Scotland in the 1850s and 1860s including James LOW Senior, a widower, and eight of his ten children at different times. The children, George, John, Mary, Jane, James, Catherine, Isabella, William, Anthony and Ann, have many descendants and it would be a wonderful opportunity to get together and tell our stories.
In particular 150 years marks the story on the Sunshine Coast of James LOW Junior who married Christina CAMPBELL in Moggill in 1861. Christina was the daughter of Donald and Marion CAMPBELL of Glenelg, Scotland. The CAMPBELLs arrived in Moreton Bay via Sydney in 1849 with their seven sons and two daughters as well as a niece and nephew. Not one of the sons married or had children but Mary CAMPBELL married William GUNN of Laidley and had seven children.
James and Christina arrived at the timber depot on the Mooloolah River mid 1864 although for two years prior to this time James was captain of the schooner Granite City and the paddle steamer Gneering carrying timber between the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. In 1868 they selected land at Yandina and established a hotel, post office and store. Their ten children were: Marion, John, James, Ewen, William, Catherine, Alexander, Christina, Robert, Agnes.