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Sister Bonaventure
Jean Marie Bannerman was born on 19 March, 1910, in a hotel in Mangonui in the far north where her parents, George and Christina, were hotel keepers. A few years after her birth her father went to War, was reported missing and never returned...
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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.
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Sister Kathleen Crean
I was born in Blackstoops, Enniscorthy, Wexford, Eire, on the 8 April 1938 and on leaving school I worked in the air force before coming to New Zealand...