Early Workers

Revised August 6, 2025

William Irvine, First Worker & Founder

Photos of Wm. Irvine
BOOK: Preserving the Truth: The Church without a Name and Its Founder, William Irvine
  Clarion Call Publishing, Dallas, Texas, May 31, 2022; 630 Pages, 200 illustrations
William Irvine – Family Tree
Collection of Over 400 Letters By William Irvine

Accounts of the Early Days in Ireland by Goodhand Pattison
John Long’s Journal
Court Cases – Law Suits Involving Workers in the Early Days


Other Early Workers and their Family Trees:

1905 Workers List
Brief Biographies of Workers on 1905 Workers List
Workers Photos
Sister Worker’s Testimony Letters – 1913

Married Worker Couples


Carroll Family (Bill, Jack, May and Fannie)
& Carroll Family Tree
Christie, David
Coles, Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie)
Cooney, Edward & Family Tree
Corcoran Family
Elliott, Tom & Ellen
Gill and Hughes Families & Family Tree

Holland & Holt Family Trees

Hughes, Hazel – 1888 Rebuttal
Hughes, Willie – 1931 Statement
Jamieson, Willie and sister Elisabeth
Jackson, John Samuel (Jack) 
Kerr, Joe

Long, John
& Long Family Tree
Lyness, Thomas “Tom
Magowan, Alfred 
Pattison, Goodhand & Family Tree
Pearson Family Tree
Reid, Wilson

Walker, George & Walker Family Tree
Weir, Irvine
Weir Family Tree
Wood, Fred


Spoken by Early Workers:

First Workers’ Funeral Accounts
Early Workers’ Life Stories
First Missions – Pioneering Worker Stories
New Testament MinistryVarious authors – Women teaching/preaching
Sermon Notes by Wm. Irvine
Explanations of “The Beginning” by Workers
Notes of Workers Meetings