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 John Campbell KEILLOR was born
in Scotland on 19 June 1861, the sixth child of George (a farmer)
and Helen Keillor (nee WILLOX). He left Glasgow on the ship
"Nebo" on 24 May 1883. After a voyage of almost three
months to the day, he arrived in Australia , at Rockhampton,
Queensland on 25 August 1883. Travelling south on foot he visited
the Lowood district and worked for a short period in Brisbane before
settling at Upper Caboolture where he carried on timber work and
mixed farming. He married Emily Frances SAMPSON on 12 May 1886 at
the Trinity Church of England Church in Fortitude Valley, a suburb
of Brisbane, Queensland.
Their son Alexander Victor KEILLOR
remembers Fred SAMPSON (Emily's brother) and John C KEILLOR bought
land together across the river from Chesterville (near Caboolture,
Queensland). They built a house right on the fence line. Fred lived
in one half of the house and John in the other. When John later
bought 100 acres of land he called it Comrie after a town in
Scotland. John had his half of the house taken to his new property
and partitions taken out and made into the kitchen.
John and Emily lost two sons to World
War I, Robert Eric KEILLOR and Thomas Henry KEILLOR. |
