As a young Nellie Lawrie recalled some years later, there was much apprehension and plenty of tears as the Scot Colony boarded the S.S. Furnesia at the Greenock Pier. The group was sailing from ...

A large crowd gathered to see them start for America. As they gathered on Groenock [Greenock?] Pier, waiting for the tender to take them out to the Furnessia, many felt very sad and worried.