Recalling Past Ways

In a time when our forebears struggled to survive, with food scarce and no money available for the family at live on. Children at a very early age were forced to leave home and fend for themselves. Michael Quigley was one faced with such a childhood. Leaving his home in New Brunswick at the age of fourteen in 1862, he arrived on Prince Edward Island. How he landed in Anglo Tignish at the time is unknown. But his trek opened a door that would benefit him in making a living for the

remainder of his life. It was at a little settlement in Anglo known little about today

that he found a job with a cobbler named ”Fairburn” who made and mended footwear as his occupation. Seeing the talent this young lad possessed, Fairburn taught him the trade that led to him becoming a skilled cobbler. He then met and married Martha Dawson of Christopher Cross. Having acquired land and a house in South Kildare, they settled on what is now known as

the Hardy Road. Michael’s life from that time on was not all that easy to

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