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 . Having acquired land and a house in South Kildare , they settled on what is now known as the . Michael's life from that time on was not all that easy to 116 ii.