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Sister Malia Finau Ta’anga
Sister Malia Finau Ta’Anga: Malia was from Tonga. She was very good hearted and worked well in the different apostolates of the Sisters of Compassion, after discernment she decided to […]
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Sister Prisca McQuilkin
Annie McQuilkin was born at Hau Hau, Hokitika, on the 5 August, 1874. Annie was the second daughter of John McQuilkin and Mary [nee Sweeney]. Annie’s parents were well-known and highly respected pioneers of the West Coast whose strong faith and open-handed generosity built up the Church in the early days of New Zealand.
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Sister Lawrence Gough
Annie was born in Waimate on 5 May 1876, but by the age of six her parents, John Francis and Anne Gough (nee Houey), seem to have died for she was adopted by Mark Healey and was subsequently brought up by him and his wife. Whether they were related or not is not known.