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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 Kathleen Desmond
Kathleen Elizabeth Desmond, the only daughter of Harold and Elizabeth Desmond, was born in Wellington where she and her three brothers, Fred, Joe and Phil, spent their childhood...
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Sister Ambrose Pender
Jessie Jane was the daughter of John and Ellen Pender. She was born in Greymouth just prior to the outbreak of World War I. Jessie spent her early childhood years in the small mining township of Runanga within the loving environment of her large family of five sisters and four brothers...