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Sister Isidore Shortall
Margaret Magdalen Shortall was born at Turakina on 7 December 1881. Margaret was of Irish and Scandinavian heritage.
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Sister Ursula Hensley
Louisa Gertrude was born in Albury, N.S.W. Her parents, Charles and Catherine, raised their eight children, five daughters and three sons, within a strong Christian atmosphere.
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Mother Veronica Hartnett
Margaret Hartnett was the younger sister of Catherine, and was born at Kanieri on the West Coast. She went to the Hokitika Convent School where she would have listened with rapt attention to Mother Mary Joseph Aubert speaking of the Maori Mission at Hiruhārama on the Whanganui River.