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Sister Dorothea Meade
Mary Hope was born in Wanganui. Her parents were Michael and Millicent Meade. The family of five girls and three boys lived on their farm, Whakahoro, in a remote corner of the Wanganui River...
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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 Carmel Gallagher
Sarah Gallagher was born in Glenswilly, County of Donegal, Ireland on the 1 May, 1860. Her parents were Hugh Gallagher and Sarah Monner. She came out to New Zealand to be with her brother and family on the West Coast. After a while they went to live in Oamaru, but in the early 1880's they shifted to Wellington...