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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 Anne O’Rourke
Ellen O’Rourke was born at Coroughalla, Cork, Ireland on 18 November, 1858, the daughter of Timothy and Ellen O’Rourke (nee McSweeny). Ellen O’Rourke came to New Zealand in 1879 with her sister Bridget...
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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...