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Community & Business
25 November, 2025
The trials and tribulations of Scottish migrant, Peter McIntyre
When Peter McIntyre and his wife Jane McFarlane married in 1834 and became a tenant farmers on the banks of beautiful Loch Lomond, he probably thought he would never leave the district. At first they lived at “Edintaggarl”, where their four older children were born, before moving in 1841 to “Stuckendroin” just a few miles further north. However, in 1862 when landlord, Sir James Colquhoun raised his rent from £90 to £120 per year it was the last straw for McIntyre who had struggled financially for years.
Peter McIntyre left the comfortable home of Stuckendroin to live many years in Queensland in a slab hut with an earthen floor.
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