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Sister Elizabeth Slattery
Alice Slattery was born at Remuera, Auckland, on August 4, 1904. On the day she entered the Sisters of Compassion at Island Bay on 12 November, 1920, Mother Aubert came to the top of the hill to greet her as she walked up from the tram...
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Sister Brigid McCormick
Mary Eileen was born on 22 October 1905 in Belfast Northern Ireland, one of thirteen or fourteen children born to Jane and Daniel McCormick and the eldest of the nine surviving children who emigrated to New Zealand arriving in Auckland on 26 May 1926 aboard the Mahana. Eileen was baptised and confirmed in St Peter’s Pro-Cathedral, in Belfast...
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Sister Jeanne Duggan
Catherine Duggan was born in Tuamarina, New Zealand, on 2 July, 1879, and was the half-sister of Sister Mary Marcelle Small. Their mother was Debora Hunter who married Daniel Duggan when her first husband died...