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Sister Eymard Heffernan
Alice Louisa Heffernan was born in Wellington on 1 July, 1907. Her father was a policeman by profession and was frequently on transfer to various stations throughout the North Island so the family of eight children experienced many changes of schools and friendships during their childhood and adolescent years...
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Sister Francis Mountain
Ngaio Helena, daughter of Sydney and Lucy Mountain, was born in the small farming settlement of Kaeo, Bay of Islands. She and her two sisters came from a generation of pioneering people well known in the Kaeo district...
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Sister Liguori Dowdall
Christina Agnes Dowdall was born in Whanganui on 9 November, 1908. Her parents were Christopher and Gladys Dowdall. Christina was lovingly referred to in the family as Jacky.