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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 Therese Caldwell
Rosanne Agnes Caldwell, daughter of Lindsay Archibald Caldwell and Jeanne Marie [nee Dondeyne] was born on the 25th August, 1923 at Wellington. She was the second daughter in a family of six. Rosanne and her four sisters and one brother received their education at the Sacred Heart Convent in Island Bay.
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Sister Shirley Tunnicliffe
Born Margaret Shirley Tunnicliffe was born on the 16 February 1936 in the small town of Owaka in the Catlans to Margaret Liston McAra and Cyril Alexander Tunnicliffe, both early pioneer families of the area. The eldest of four children, Shirley was baptised Margaret Shirley but was always called Shirley. Shirley had two brothers Donald Alexander and Raymond James and a much younger sister, Shona Janet who was born in 1950 after the war.