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Island Bay’s Own ‘Flying Nun’: It started as a joke but before she knew it, Sister Cecilia, celebrating her 80 birthday, was flying down The Parade in Island Bay on the back of her neighbour’s Harley Davidson motorbike.
Margaret Mary Dawson was born on 16 May, 1914, in Lislea, Ireland. Her parents were Peter and Brigid Dawson (nee Quinn). Margaret Mary was the third child in a family of five, the eldest her brother Joe, and her sisters Maureen, Bridie, and Joan who was born in New Zealand.
Ellen Mary’s parents were Michael and Johanna Roughan. The family of four children, one brother Edward and two sisters Winifred and Johanna, lived on a small life-style block of land in Miller’s Flat, Central Otago.