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7 February, 2017
Sister Celine Martin
Barbara was born in Rotorua the daughter of James and Myrtle Martin. The family moved to the Bay of Plenty where Barbara received her education and quickly entered into the local life of the environment. Helping on the farm, Barbara inherited a great love of animals which she retained throughout life…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Celestine Fraser
Marie Helen Fraser was born in Christchurch in 1910. Marie’s parents were Alexander Fraser and Mary Fraser (nee Bonisch)…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Cecilia Crombie
Emmeline Edith Crombie was born at Balart, Victoria, Australia, on 30 December, 1872. Her parents were Charles Melville Crombie and Matilda Margaret Crombie (nee Sibley.) Emmeline entered as a Postulant on 15 August, 1908, and began her Novitiate on 19 March, 1909, receiving the name Sister Mary Cecilia. She was professed on 7 April, 1911…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Catherine Quelch
Myra Florence Quelch was born in Invercargill on the 15 December, 1912. Her parents were John Hector Quelch and Sarah Quelch (nee Fotheringham). Catherine was the eldest of nine children – eight girls and one boy…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Casimir Cahill
Patricia Josephine Cahill was born in Auckland on the 17 March, 1913, the third daughter of William John Cahill, Engineer, and Mary Anne Cahill [nee O’Leary] in a family of seven children…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Carol Anne Rogers
Carol Anne the second daughter of Gerald and Laura Rogers was born in Wellington and baptised at St Francis de Sales Church in Island Bay. Carol, along with her sister Pauline and brother Brian who both had special needs, lived within a sheltered family atmosphere…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Carmella Coghlan
Eileen Marion Coghlan, was born in Reefton on the famous West Coast, that fact alone gave her, along with many another Coaster, that distinct something that makes them different from the rest of us. Her parents were Peter Coghlan and Elizabeth Coghlan [nee O’Leary]. Eileen grew up in a family of nine children – four boys and five girls…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Carmel Gallagher
Sarah Gallagher was born in Glenswilly, County of Donegal, Ireland on the 1 May, 1860. Her parents were Hugh Gallagher and Sarah Monner. She came out to New Zealand to be with her brother and family on the West Coast. After a while they went to live in Oamaru, but in the early 1880’s they shifted to Wellington…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Campion Walsh
Stella Mary Walsh was born in Invercargill, the fourth daughter of James Raymond Walsh and Stella Walsh. Her father was a Custom Officer who had worked in various places throughout New Zealand. Stella’s parents provided a Catholic education for the family of five children with three of their four daughter eventually entering religious congregations…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Camillus Walker
Mary Jane Walker was born in Wellington on the 28 May, 1879. Her parents were Alexander and Mary Walker [nee Knox]. Mary entered the Sisters of Compassion at St. Joseph’s Home, Buckle Street, on the 15 August, 1903…
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3 February, 2017
Sister Camillus Ryan
Eileen Mary Ryan, daughter of William Rodger and Myrtle Eileen (nee Fowler), entered the Sisters of Compassion some time in February 1956. What a wonderful contribution she made to the Sisters of Compassion…
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2 February, 2017
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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