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9 February, 2017
Sister Germaine Ward
Lucy May Ward was born at Kingston, England, on 9 November 1905. Her parents were George and Flora Adeline Ward.
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9 February, 2017
Sister Gerard McNamara
Hanna McNamara was born at Guhard, County Kerry, Ireland, on 25 February 1874. Her parents were Cornelius and Ellen McNamara (nee Dwyer).
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9 February, 2017
Sister Genevieve Sexton
Jessie Elizabeth Sexton was born at Gladstone, Wairarapa, on July 7 1881. She was the daughter of James and Mary Sexton (nee Lane).
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9 February, 2017
Sister Gabriel Murphy
Mary Murphy was born at Stafford, Westland, on 10 December, 1872. Her parents were James and Margaret Murphy (nee Dalton)…
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9 February, 2017
Sister Gabriel Henry
Helen Mary Henry was born in Hawera on 18 June, 1906, but spent most of her early life in Wanganui. Her parents were Thomas and Annie Henry (nee Finnerty). Even in those days she must have been a special person, as one of the Sisters can remember a teacher’s oft-repeated phrase: ‘If only we had girls like Molly Henry!’…
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9 February, 2017
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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9 February, 2017
Sister Francis McManaway
Josephine Bell McManaway was born at Makara, Wellington on 26 February, 1873. Josephine’s parents were John and Bridget McManaway (nee Kenny)…
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9 February, 2017
Sister Flora Walsh
Dorothy Marie Walsh was born in Hastings, Hawkes Bay. Her parents were John and Mary Walsh (nee Maggin). The Walsh family of four girls and four boys were reared and educated in Hastings…
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9 February, 2017
Sister Fidelis Woodward
Jessie, the only child of George and Dorothy Woodward, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and migrated with her mother to New Zealand when she was eight years old…
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9 February, 2017
Sister Felix Breen
Sister Felix (Ellen Catherine) Breen was born in the Tapanui Hospital, about twenty miles from the family farm in Conical Hills, Central Otago. Ellen’s parents were Mary and Jim Breen and she was the second eldest of nine children, five sisters and three brothers…
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9 February, 2017
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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9 February, 2017
Sister Eustace Conaglen
Mary Magdalen Conaglen was born at Hawera on 15 February, 1901, the fifth child in a family of six. Her father was a dairy farmer, so life on the farm at Pihama was the setting of young Molly’s life…
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