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Born: 10 September 1910, Lurgan, Kilkelly, County Mayo
Entered: 14 October 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 April 1940 (for health reasons)

Had a brother who was a Dominican (Brother Dalmaticus).

1934-1936: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1936-1938: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, grounds
1938-1940: St Mary's, Emo, Grounds

Had some psychological issues and shortly after arriving home the family had him committed to the Psychiatric Hospital in Castlebar. Provincial paid to ensure he was there as a private patient.

Reported to have died some years before 1973

Born: 09 February 1884, Australia
Entered: 07 September 1916, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 19 April 1924 from Melbourne

1916-1918: Loyola Greenwich, Sydney, Novitiate
1918-1921: St Ignatius College Riverview, Sydney, assists on Observatory
1921-1924: Loyola Greenwich, working

Born: 29 September 1830, County Kildare
Entered: 30 April 1856, Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

Early Australian Missioner 1866

1856-1858: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Novitiate
1858-1866: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working
1866-1867: St Patrick’s College SJ, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, working

◆ The Irish Jesuit pamphlet
The Jesuits in Australia

Origins of the Jesuit Missions In Australia

Originally there were three mission territories in Australia: South Australia, the Daly River, in the Northern Territory and the mission in Victoria, New South Wales.

When the colony was only in its infancy, the South Australia Mission was instigated by a zealous Catholic farmer of Silesia. He gathered a band of 130 emigrants and arranged to pay their passage from Hamburg to Adelaide. Then he applied to the Jesuit Provincial of Austria for missioners and he appointed Frs Aloysius Kranewitter and Maximilian Klinkoestroem to accompany the group. They landed at Adelaide on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, after a journey of 114 days and received a cordial welcome from the Bishop.

The Daly River Mission was also under the care of the Austrian Jesuits and was directed at the “Conver sion of the Blacks”. It was established 1882 by Fr Anthony Strele. Unfortunately, due to the floods in the area, it had to be abandoned by the Society.

We are concerned mainly here with the other mission, that in Victoria,New South Wales.

In 1865 the Bishop of Melbourne invited the Jesuit General to send some priests to take charge of St Patrick's College in the city and to care for the adjoining districts of Richmond, Hawthorn, Kew and the large country area nearby.

As a result the first Irish Jesuits, Frs Joseph Lentaigne and William Kelly, arrived on Sept. 21st 1865 and immediately set to work. That evening, in fact, Fr Kelly preached in St Francis' Church, where Bishop Goold was conducting a mission. In a few days the priests took over the college and with the help of two lay-teachers taught some 30 pupils until Christmas.

Next year saw the arrival of Frs Joseph Dalton, Edward Nolan and David McKiniry along with two Jesuit brothers: Michael Scully, a shoemaker and Michael Goodwin, a carpenter, who was still a novice.

Ten days after their appearance in in Australia they were given charge of Richmond, Hawthorn, after 17 years Camberwell and some large country districts...........

Born: 25 September 1856, Australia
Entered: 21 May 1894, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1904

1894-1896: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1896-1902: St Aloysius College SJ, Bourke Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, working
1902-1903: Loyola Greenwich, Australia, working
1903-1904: St Ignatius, Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, working

Born: 15 August 1836, County Kildare
Entered: 09 September 1860, Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 1871

1860-1871: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Novitiate then Cook

Born: 14 August 1802, Cashel, County Cork
Entered: 01 February 1843, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1856

James Reardon to 1885 CAT, then James Riordan

1843-1845: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1845-1849: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working
1849-1852: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working
1852-1853: Killiney Residence, Killiney, County Dublin, working
1853-1855: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin, working

Born: 26 November 1915, Lower Kevin Street, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 15 January 1956, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 13 August 1959

Father was James and Mother was Anne (Farrell). Both deceased at the time of entry He had a step mother (Margaret) who approved his entering. Family lived at , Carrow Road, Drimnagh, Dublin City, County Dublin and subsequently at Partridge Terrace, Inchicore, Dublin

Had worked as a coach builder at CIE before entering.

1956-1958: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1958-1959: Milltown Park, working

Baptised at St Nicholas of Myra, Francis Street, 29/11/1915
Conformed at St James, Dublin, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 08/03/1927

After leaving had a job painting at Milltown Park

Address 2000 & 1991: Carrow Road, Drimnagh, Dublin City

RIP by 2000

Born: 17 April 1914, O’Curry Street, Kilkee, County Clare
Entered: 14 August 1937, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB for ORE)

Left Society of Jesus: 16 May 1940

Brother Novice. ORE Province Catalogue has date of entry as 20/02/1938 (after 6 months probation?)

Father was John, a carpenter working on contract basis for builders and funeral undertakers. Mother was Catherine (Downes).

8 Brothers and 2 Sisters

Educated to Primary Cert level, then worked with his father.

Baptised at Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Senan, West End, Kilkee, County Clare, 18/04/1914

(Letters from Patrick J O’Reilly SJ’s sister to provincial regarding Bernard on file along with one from Patrick)

Born: 25 April 1689, County Waterford
Entered: 21 September 1725, - Peruvianae Province (PER)

Left Society of Jesus: 24 November 1745

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1728 PER Cat
“Marcus Phelan”
Born 25/04/1689 Waterford
Entered 21/09/1725

1730 PER Cat
“Marcus Phelan”
Born 25/04/1689 Waterford
Entered 21/09/1725
Grounds work

1732 PER Cat
“Marcus Phelan”
Born 25/04/1689 Waterford
Entered 21/09/1725
Assistant to Procurator

1735 PER Cat
“Marcus Phelan”
Born 25/04/1689 Waterford
Entered 21/09/1725
Assistant to Procurator

1741 PER Cat
“Marcus Phelan”
Born 25/04/1689 Waterford
Entered 21/09/1725
Final Vows 02/02/1739
Janitor

Marcus Ophelan dismissed 24/11/1745

Cousin of Maurice O’Phelan RIP 1772

Born: 01 June 1678,
Entered: 17 June 1702, Peruvianae Province (PER)

Left Society of Jesus: 18 August 1705

◆ Old/17 has “O’Connor” Dimissi 18/08/1705 Coad Temp (PERU)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1672 PERU Cat
Novitate
“Guilliermus Ocanor”
Born 01/06/1678
Entered 17/06/1702

Dismissed 18/08/1705

Born: 14 February 1870, Australia
Entered: 29 October 1898, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1903

1898-1900: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1900-1901: St Ignatius College SJ Riverview, Sydney NSW, Australia, Woring and assising with “Messenger”
1901-1903: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Infirmarian and Cook

Born: 14 May 1849,
Entered: 21 June 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1886

1873-1875: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1875-1880: Milltown Park, Dublin, Plumber
1880-1883: St Stanislaus College sj, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Plumber
1883-1886: Milltown Park, Dublin, awaiting assignment

Born: 1696,
Entered: 1721, Tepotzotlán, Mexico

Left Society of Jesus: 15 December 1728 (CAST)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1723 MEX Cat
Novitiate Tepotzotlán, Mexico
“Joannes Montes”
Aged 26, Irish
Entered 1722
Brother novice

1726 MEX Cat
“Joannes Montes”
Aged 29, Irish
Entered 1722 In Society 5
Domestica

Dismissed 15/12/1728

Born: 1801
Entered: 14 October 1837, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: by 1840

1837-1839: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1839-1840: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working

Born: 09 August 1892, Australia
Entered: 02 October 1918, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 12 August 1929

1918-1924: Loyola Greenwich, Australia, Novitiate and then Cook
1924-1928: Sevenhill, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Cook, Infirmarian et al
1927-1929: Loyola Greenwich, Australia, Cook and Infirmarian

Letter from Fr Jeremiah Sullivan, Superior of Irish Jesuit Mission in Australia, on file.

Born: 17 June 1908, Cashel, County Tipperary
Entered: 05 April 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 04 February 1943

1931-1933: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1933-1940: Coláiste Iognáid, Galway, cook
1940-1941: Clongowes Wood College SJ, cook
1941-1942: Coláiste Iognáid, Galway, cook
1942-1943: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, cook

Address 2000 & 1991: Belvedere College SJ, Great Denmark Street, Dublin City (worked and lived there)

Born: 25 December 1893, Australia
Entered: 01 February 1915, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1921

1915-1917: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1917-1921: St Aloysius, Sevenhill, South Australia, Australia, working

Born: 31 March 1913, Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin
Entered: 23 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 08 December 1942

Father was Patrick Maguire. Mother was Elizabeth (Dunne). Family had previously lived at Fitzroy Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

One brother and two sisters.

Educated at St Pat’s BNS, Drumcondra, Dublin

Baptised at St Agatha’s, North William Street, 04/04/1913
Conformed at St Columba’s, Iona Road by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 05/03/1927

1932-1934: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1934-1936: St Mary's, Emo,, Infirmarian
1936-1938: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Infirmarian
1938-1940: Borgo Santo Spirito, Rome Italy (ROM) secretary
1940-1940: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Infirmarian
1941-1942: Milltown Park / Rathfarnham Castle, working / infirmarian

After leaving he became Sacristan at Corpus Christi, Home Farm Road. He was married with a family and worked for an Insurance company.

Born: 27 March 1842, County Limerick
Entered: 24 December 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 18 December 1872

Letter from John Bapst SJ (07/02/1973) in New York, enquiring about advisability of re-entry.

Born: 01 December 1882, Bray, County Wicklow
Entered: 07 September 1903, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Final Vows: 02 February 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 01 April 1919

Born: 02 February 1847, County Kildare
Entered: 02 February 1868, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 19 March 1871

1868-1870: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1870-1871: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, working

Born: 23 December 1884, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 04 May 1910, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1915

1911-1913: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1913-1914: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working

Born: 08 April 1924, Portersize, Grange Con, County Wicklow
Entered: 18 December 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 31 October 1955

Parents were farmers. Father, Edward, RIP at time of entry, and mother was Elizabeth Beckett. Parents separated and mother brought John to live in new family, in which six children were born. When his father died in 1944, mother legally married the father of her six other children.

Address at time of entry: Coolavah House, Narraghmore, Ballitore, Athy, County Kildare

Had worked on family farm and as a lorry driver for a Mr Reddy in Carlow before entry.

Educated ay St Laurence’s National School, Crookstown, Ballytore, County Kildare.

Baptised at Moore Church (Most Holy Trinity), Castledermot, County Kildare, 12/04/1924
Confirmed at Ss Mary and Laurence, Crookstown, County Kildare 27/06/1934

1946-1948: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1948-1950: St Mary's, Emo, working
1950-1955: Chikuni, Chisekesi, N Rhodesia (POL Mi) working

Having left he was understood to be working in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia

Born: 24 June 1916, Nephin Road, Cabra, Dublin
Entered: 23 March 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 17 September 2012, Kerlogue Nursing Home, Rocksborough, Kerlogue, County Wexford

Left Society of Jesus: 24 April 1945

Christopher Joseph Thomas Laheen

Son of John Laheen and Elizabeth (Smyth), brother of Kevin A Laheen - RIP 2019. Parents were supported by private busines. Family moved to Bray, County Wicklow and then back to Dublin.

Educated at Presentation Brothers College Bray.

Before joining he was in business with his father and a brother in a boot mending business in Stoneybatter, Dublin as well as good experience in farming.

Baptised at the Holy Family, Aughrim Street, 30/06/1916
Confirmed at Holy Redeemer, Bray, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 20/05/1930

1940-1942: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1942-1945: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working

Address 2000: St Xavier’s, Station Road, Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford

https://rip.ie/death-notice/christopher-laheen-wexford-rosslare-harbour-165649

The death has occurred of

Christopher Laheen
Station Road, Rosslare Harbour, Wexford

Laheen (Station Road, Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford), September 17, 2012, at Kerlogue Nursing Home, Christopher, beloved husband of the late Eileen and father of John, Patrick and David;deeply regretted by his loving family, in-laws, grandchildren, great-granddaughter, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. R. I. P. Reposing at Mulligans Funeral Home, The Faythe, Wexford from 11o’c, Tuesday with removal at 7o’c, to St Patrick’s Church Rosslare Harbour. Funeral Mass on Wednesday at 11o’c, burial afterwards in St. Aidan’s Cemetery Kilrane. Family flowers only. Donations in lieu if desired to Kerlogue Nursing Home.

Born: 19 June 1918, Dublin City
Entered: 17 September 1942, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 02 July 1946

Father died 18/03/1944. Vows were postponed until 10/01/1945

1942-1944: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1944-1946: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Cook

After he left he became a member of the Pioneers’ Club in SFX Gardiner Street. (1973)

RIP by 2000

Born: 04 December 1903, Newry, County Down
Entered: 29 July 1924, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 21 December 1931

Beofre entry had joined the IRA and fought in the War of Independence. He was imprisoned for this and released in the general amnesty. He became disillusioned with the IRA after the Civil War and the death of Michael Collins.

1924-1926: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1926-1930: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, carpenter and mechanic
1930-1931: St Mary’s, Emo, carpenter and mechanic

After leaving he became an active Trade Unionist and a member of the Labour Party.

Born: 07 January 1871, County Tipperary
Entered: 04 November 1888, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: October 1892

1888-1890: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1890-1891: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working
1891-1892: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Assistant Infirmarian

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT Dispensed from Vows, October 1892

Born: 04 June 1908, Charleville Avenue, North Strand, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 18 May 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Final Vows: 02 February 1946, Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 17 August 1948 (from St Ignatius, Leeson St)

Parents, John and Josephine (Rothwell)

1 Brother and 1 Sister.

Before entry was a photographer. Worked with Lafayette, D’Olier St (1929-1931). He then was manager of Dean Art Studios, and also Sackville Studio, O’Connell St.

Baptised at St Agatha’s, Nth William Street, 10/01/1908
Confirmed at St Agatha’s, Nth William Street, by Dr Millar of Dublin, March 1919

1935-1937: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1937-1946: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working
1946-1948: St Ignatius, Leeson St, working

Said to have emigrated to England and was working at the Spanish Church of St James, George Street, London as Sacristan. Then said to have married returned to Dublin, running a grocery shop in Philipsburgh Avenue, Fairview.

Born: 17 June 1910, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 12 March 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1940

1932-1934: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1934-1940: St Mary's, Emo, working

Possibly was working in Dublin and with the Little sisters of the Poor in Roebuck for a while. Reported to have died. (1973)

Born: 10 July 1814, County Meath
Entered: 14 October 1837, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1847

1837-1839: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1839-1843: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working
1843-1844: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working
1844-1847: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate

Born: 23 June 1890, Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1909, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 30 July 1919

1909-1911: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1911-1913: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, working
1913-1916: Belvedere College SJ, working
1916-1919: Sacred Heart College SJ Crescent, working

Born: 01 January 1887,
Entered: 24 March 1908, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 21 July 1920 (from Mungret College SJ)

1908-1910: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1910-1911: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Assistant Cook
1911-1918: Milltown Park, working
1918-1920: Mungret College SJ, working

Born: 15 September 1842, Cullen, Millstreet, County Cork
Entered: 03 November 1875, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 28 June 1890

Extensive correspondence on file between Daniel J Hickey and respective Provincials regarding reimbursement of funds, 1890-1915.

1875-1877: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1877-1880: Coláiste Iognáid SJ, Galway, Cook
1880-1881: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Dispenser
1881-1882: Sacred Heart College SJ Crescent, Limerick, Cook
1882-1883: Mungret College SJ, Cook
1883-1888: Sacred Heart College SJ Crescent, Limerick, Cook
1888-1890: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, working

There is a Daniel J Hickey, Cullen, Millstreet, County Cork (same address as above correspondence) who died of flu 24/11/1918

Born: 17 March 1872, County Limerick
Entered: 07 April 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1912

1895-1897: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1897-1899: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Cook
1899-1902: Coláiste Iognáid SJ, Sea Road, Galway, Cook
1902-1904: Milltown Park, Dublin, working
1904-1905: Sacred Heart College SJ Crescent, Limerick, working
1905-1907: Milltown Park, Dublin, Infirmarian
1907-1910: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working

Born: 07 August 1853, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 30 July 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1885

1873-1875: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1875-1881: Clongowes Wood Colleg SJ, working
1881-1885: Milltown Park, Dublin, working

Born: 28 September 1787, County Offaly
Entered: 07 September 1819, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1833

1819-1821: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1821-1827: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Cook
1827-1833: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working

Born: 06 January 1862, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 02 December 1880, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1888

1882-1884: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1884-1886: Milltown Park, Dublin, working
1886-1888: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin, working

Born: 1587, Baltimore, County Cork
Entered: 25 April 1620, Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 1627

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

James Griffey

He was born at Baltimore, 1587, and he entered the Society as a coadjutor Brother in the Province of Castille.

After his Noviceship he was appointed for duty at the College of Medina, and remained there for the next five or six years, but left the Society in 1611.

Born: 15 October 1934, Balbriggan Road, Skerries, County Dublin
Entered: 06 February 1954, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 September 2021, Rathmeel Lawns, Ballina, County Mayo

Left Society of Jesus: 29 July 1961

Parents John (labourer in England) and Frances (Quigley)

One of four boys

Eduated at local NS, St Kevin’s and Balbriggan Technical School (2.5 years0

Was a carpenter’s apprentice before entry.

Baptised St Patrick’s Skerries, 18/10/1934
Confirmed by Dr McQuaid of Dublin at St Patrick’s Skerries, 11/07/1946

1954-1956: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1956-1961: St Mary's, Emo, Working

Letter on file indicating death in 1964 - as per Sr Perpetua ??? Death notice indicating death actually in Ballina, 09/09/2021

https://rip.ie/death-notice/kevin-greaves-mayo-ballina-455011

The death has occurred of

Kevin Greaves
44 Rathmeel Lawns, Ballina, Mayo / Skerries, Dublin

Kevin Greaves, 44 Rathmeel Lawns, Ballina, Co. Mayo & formerly Skerries, Dublin & Birmingham. 9th September 2021. (husband of Sheila Browne formerly of Bridge Street Crossmolina). Deeply mourned by his loving wife Sheila, sons Christopher & Brian, Brian's fiancé Joanna, grandchildren Jacob, Ellie & Martha, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives & friends.

May he Rest in Peace.

Remains reposing at Hiney's Funeral Home, Crossmolina this Sunday evening from 4pm with removal at 5pm to St. Tiernan's Church, Crossmolina for family & friends. Requiem Mass on Monday at 12 noon. Burial afterwards in Crossmolina Cemetery.

https://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/obituaries-home/50904-kevin-greaves-44-rathmeel-lawns-ballina-co-mayo-formerly-of-skerries-dublin-birmingham

Kevin Greaves, 44 Rathmeel Lawns, Ballina, Co. Mayo & formerly of Skerries, Dublin & Birmingham
Published: Friday, 10 September 2021 14:56
Kevin Greaves,

44 Rathmeel Lawns, Ballina, Co. Mayo & formerly of Skerries, Dublin & Birmingham (9th September 2021).

Husband of Sheila Browne, formerly of Bridge Street, Crossmolina.

Deeply mourned by his loving wife Sheila, sons Christopher & Brian, Brian's fiancé Joanna, grandchildren Jacob, Ellie & Martha, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives & friends.

May he Rest in Peace.

Remains reposing at Hiney's Funeral Home, Crossmolina this Sunday evening from 4pm with removal at 5pm to St. Tiernan's Church, Crossmolina for family & friends.

Requiem Mass on Monday at 12 noon.

Burial afterwards in Crossmolina Cemetery.

Born: 18 December 1894, County Offaly
Entered: 08 June 1919, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 26 March 1923

1919-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,
1921-1922: Sacred Heart College Crescent, working
1922-1923: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, working

Born: 28 April 1922, Loughrea, County Galway
Entered: 05 April 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 03 December 1949

1940-1942: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1942-1947:St Mary's, Emo, working
1947-1949: Mungret College SJ, working

Born: 21 May 1906, Rahan, County Offaly
Entered: 22 July 1924, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 04 August 1932

1924-1926: Loyola Greenwich, Australia, Novitiate
1926-1927: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, working
1927-1929: St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner St, Working
1929-1931: Sacred Heart Church, Crescent, Limerick: working
1931-1932: St Mary’s, Emo, working

Born: 26 February 1819,
Entered: 01 February 1843, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: by 1851 for health reasons

1843-1845: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1845-1851: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, working

Born: 12 March 1914, St Attracta Road, Cabra, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 14 August 1934, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Final Vows: 02 February 1945, Clongowes Wood College SJ

Left Society of Jesus: 12 August 1949

Parents were Patrick, who worked on the railways and Alice (Duignan)

Two brothers and three sisters.

Baptised City Quay, Dublin, 13/03/1914
Confirmed by Dr Byrne of Dublin at St Andrew’s, Westland Row
(at time of confirmation was living at Hanover Street, Dublin)

Educated at St Andrew’s NS, Westland Row, Dublin
At time of entry was working in the plumbing trade working for P E Olin, Pearse Street, Dublin

1936-1938: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1938-1940: Belvedere College SJ, maintenance
1940-1943: St Mary's, Emo, maintenance
1943-1945: Mungret College SJ, maintenance
1945-1949: Clongowes Wood College SJ, maintenance

In 1973 Brother Guidera reports that he called to Tullabeg in 1962 and at the time was working at Dundalk Gas Works. He was then married

Born:
Entered:

Left Society of Jesus: 08 November 1702

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1703 PERU Cat
Novitiate
“Petrus Estrich”

Dismissed 08/11/1702

Born: 07 May 1858, County Galway
Entered: 14 February 1877, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1887

1877-1878: Milltown Park, Dublin, Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1878-1883: Sacred Heart College SJ Crescent, Limerick, Novitiate, then working
1883-1884: University College, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, working
1884-1887: Milltown Park, Dublin, working

Born: 15 August 1862, Australia
Entered: 22 April 1893, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

1893-1895: Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia, Novitiate
1895-1896: St Mary’s, Miller Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, working
1896-1897: St Aloysius College SJ, Bourke Street, Suydney NSW, Australia, working

Born: 01 January 1841, County Kildare
Entered: 22 December 1862, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1866

1862-1864: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1864-1866: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, working

Born: 04 March 1925, Cabra, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 02 July 1943, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Final Vows: 02 February 1957

Left Society of Jesus: 20 June 1960

Address 2000 & 1991: Brook Lodge, Sooreeney, Sixmilebridge, County Clare

Born: 28 January 1876, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Entered: 22 Spetember 1902, St Saviour’s, Jersey, Channel Islands (FRA)
Died: 1921, Hôpital Sainte Marie (Guangci Hospital), Route Père Robert, Shanghai, China

Left Society of Jesus: 1912 from Shanghai, China

Educated at Mungret College SJ

Entered St Saviour’s, Jersey, Channel Islands (FRA) as Scholastic Novice - took Vows as Brother 1904

1902-1904: St Saviour’s, Jersey, Channel Islands (FRA), Novitiate
1904-1905: St Saviour’s, Jersey, Channel Islands, working
1905-1912: Seminary and College, Zi-Ka-Wei, Shanghai, China, language studies and then teaching English in College

◆ The Mungret Annual, 1907a

Letters from Our Past

Brother Willie Doherty SJ

Willie O'Dogherty writes from Zi-Ka-Wei, near Chang Hai:

You ask me to give some account of my surroundings and my work. Not so easy a task - things and ways and customs here are so fundamentally different from every thing you know in the West. There are lots of things and of methods. you never heard of, and of whose existence you do not dream. It is, in fact, another civilization, and one which would, perhaps, throw a great deal of light on the ways and civilization in the East in our Lord's time. I might take you for a stroll and show you the people, the characters and the things we meet with. But I do not know these things well enough yet to give you a true idea. So I will tell you something this time of the college and our boys.

We have no less than fifteen native professors - all former students - the Fathers and Scholastics not being numerous enough. We have two sections in the college - the Christians and the Pagans. Their quarters are mostly distinct, but they attend classes together.

But hear what a noise the lads make as they study their lessons! Strange as it may seem they all study aloud, just as they recite their prayers. But do they not disturb the others ? No, they are so calm; besides, they are accustomed to this method. The study-halls of the two sections are, for the most part, distinct, so are the play-grounds, the dormitories and refectories. The fee for the pagans is consideralily higher than that for the christians, and hence, the former have a better table; but all meet together in class and seem to get on well together.

There is not, as far as I know, any emulation for good places between the two sections as such. You have camps for instance, on the French system—the two sides of the class-room fighting for their respective flags, and when the captains choose their soldiers, there does not appear to be much or any preference for one simply because he is a pagan or a christian. Nor would it be casy to say that the pagans give less satisfaction, and perhaps too, they are even inore docile and politer, due possibly to the fact that they may not be quite so much at home as our own Catholic boys. I wish you could have seen the class-rooms during the inonth of May. There were really splendid decorations in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Formerly, the pagans lpok part in the various exercises of piety, but such is no longer the case. The college was not organised then for the pagans as it is now. They have, however, their own Catechism class. Rarely does a conversion occur; formerly, they were more numerous but not solid. Home influence exercises perhaps too strong a counteracting influence. You grow to like these pagan loys, in part so polite, intelligent and amiable. And, perhaps, you would grow sick at heart to feel that these young souls know no higher worship than Buddha or a family idol, and that their hearts have never known what ours have.

As to their abilities, I should say their memories are brighter than their intellects. The Chinese system of study tends especially to develop imitation and amplifica tion. There is some want of life and energy, due in part to the enervating climate, in part to the phleginatic dispo sition of the Chinese. On the other hand, they have great patience, and you would admire their imperturbable calm.

During the months of July and August, many of the Fathers come to Zi-Ka-Wei from the districts. I wish you could have a chat with them about work done and work to be done. It is especially in the Siu-tcheou-fou where the results have been consoling, and where pros pects are greatest. Here there has been of late a great movement towards Christianity.

Some twenty years ago the Siu-tcheou-fou, I am told, could not boast of a single Christian. Now there are about 15,000, and those preparing for baptism are still more numerous. One district, which has some 1,800 Christians, has do less than 10,000 catechumens. This is portion of a larger district which was divided two years ago. It is now, itself, already ripe for division into three or four parts. But where are the priests? The more numerous the priests, the more systematically and effectually can the work be carried on. In this individual district whole villages are Catholic- and fervent Catholics too. There was not a single defection there amid the troubles of the Boxers, although several villages were burned, not a single house being left standing. This might be expected when men, and even children will come from thirty-five miles to hear Mass.

Again in Pei-hien, a district opened up some ten years ago in the North of Siu-tcheou-fou, the Father has some 1,800 Christians around him now after his ten years labour. Moreover, about 500 or 6oo have died. The district can boast of a church and residence, a school for boys and girls, and a catechumenate for men and women, There are, besides, eleven chapels in the district. The district should be, really, divided, as the work that offer: is far too great for one. The Father makes a visit to different chapels every six or eight weeks, and during hi: litrie trip hears in the week 300 or 400 confessions. Home cares there are too, as the schools and catechumenate at the residence must be attended to. This district has been sorely tried by the Big Knives an Boxers, but the Christians were staunch,

◆ The Mungret Annual, 1908

(published in ◆ Woodstock Letters SJ : Vol 37, Number 3, p 407)

Brother Willie Doherty SJ

CHINA The following extracts are from a very in teresting letter from Rey, Wm Doherty SJ., written from Zi-Ka-Wei, last March :

The town of Yen-t'ou is situated in the district of Sou-tsieu in Kiang-Nan. This town is the centre of a large Christian district, and a missionary father is stationed there. This father, who came there some three years ago, had a good foundation upon which to build his chrétienté, for he found on his arrival some 480 Christians, with 200 catechumens.

He set to work with his whole soul. God so blessed his efforts that last summer he could count 1,600 already baptized and from 8,000 to 9,000 preparing for the sacra ments. He told me he reckoned on having around him in the autumn perhaps some 12,000 catechumens. The number of Christians would be much larger, were it not that the necessity of ensuring constancy and solidity renders a certain delay imperative.

The people of this district are simple and sturdy in character, and afford a splendid field of apostolate for the missionary. Few pagodas are to be seen, few honzes to to be met with ; ancestral worship, together with some other superstitions, are the only obstacles to conversion..

The brigands are numerous in this poor country. We all must live somehow, and so when there is nothing more to eat at home off they go to plunder their neighbours: In some villages everybody is a brigand. It appears to be a habit very difficult to uproot, and presents an almost irresistible attraction to them. All the towns are pro tected with earthen enclosures, frequently too with a trench and battlements. The watchers blow their long horns or beat the tam-tam to let the brigands know they are on the alert. The gates of the town are closed at night; still plundering is of frequent occurrence. Some times the brigands even take advantage of a great fair day and carry off all to be found in the market, including mules, asses, and oxen.

One of our Christians last year found bimself thus set on in his home. He himself killed five of his assailants. All his relatives of the same village had been tied to prevent their coming to his help, Fortunately, the sound of the pistol shots reached the neighbouring village and relief came. The sub-prefect of the town congratulated him on his heroic defence; since then, however, our Christian has lived in dread of a reprisal, As he is in easy circumstances he has erected, like inany of the lead ing men, a tower where he can sleep at night and keep watch over the surrounding country. .

The Fathers are, as a general rule, on capital terms with the leading inen; and often too with the mandarins, who frequently refer to their arbitration disputes between pagans and Christians. Some of the leading men them selves are Christians or catechumens. These latter would be more numerous but for the wretched opium smoking which is the plague of the district. I wish you could see how those good people pass their Sunday here. The Christians often travel distances of between twenty and fifty miles for Sunday Mass; they must set out one or two days beforehand ; often they come in groups of from thirty to one hundred persons travelling on foot over bad roads. They begin to arrive on Saturday afternoon at one or two o'clock. As they come they go and pay their respects to the father, striking their foreheads against the ground; the father, of course, gets from them the news of their district. In case of the more important yillages, the catechists bring the people and give the father. all information as to how things are passing in the villages.

The father passes the evening and on till ten or eleven o'clock thus, receiving those who arrive, and hear ing their confessions. All these good fellows remain up late chatting, and whep at last they are tired out off they go to sleep where best they may. They stretch them selves on straw, in the school, in the shed, in the stable, or in the open air if the weather is fine. About five in the morning the bell is 'rung; all dress; confessions . begin again, and at about 6.30 2. m., morning prayers are recited. Then there is recitation of the catechism - an
interesting thing this recitation. Imagine all the women calling out - “Who made you?” and the men answering, “God made me”. “How many Gods are there?”, “There is but one God”, etc. In this way the whole catechism is gone through in a few Sundays. During Mass which is at seven am, they recite their prayers aloud. Usually the church is too small, and then an altar is hastily erected outside. During the sermon everybody squats down on the floor. When Mass is over at about 8.30 am, the men withdraw and the women remain to greet the father. He enquires how they are getting on, sees if they come regularly, scolds defaulters, etc. After breakfast all come district by district, each district led by its catechist to salute the father. They make two salutations if they have had holy communion, the second one being to thank the father. This defiling past often lasts three or four hours. At about two or three o'clock pm, the father can take dinner. During the evening and oftentimes well into the night, he continues to receive visits, listening to all those who have matters to treat of or difficulties to lay before him. Such are these good people and the life they lead-a people sürely worth triling and suffering for.

◆ The Mungret Annual, 1922

Obituary

Brother Willie Doherty SJ

William Doherty, who was in Mungret from 1897 to 1902, and who took his BA Degree in the Royal University with distinction, was a native of Nova Scotia, where he was born in 1877.

Being desirous of embracing the China Mission, he joined the Paris Province of the Society of Jesus, and spent some years as a scholastic at Jersey. Later on he laboured in Shanghai, being engaged in part in catechetical work. He was very earnest and fervent in his religious life. But finding the life in the Society unsuitable to his nervous and highly strung temperament, he was at his own request ultimately released from his vows. He obtained a position in the University of Pekin as a professor of English. The political complications due to the Revolution brought this to an end. He passed some time in Canada, we understand, engaged in teaching, and finally returned to China, Falling ill last summer, he came to Shanghai, where he was cared for in St Mary's Hospital by the good Sisters of Charity. Here he made a very Christian end after having received the last rites of Holy Church. It was another pupil of Mungret, his former fellow in religion, Fr John Croke SJ, who ministered to him in his sickness.

Mr W Doherty showed remarkable gifts in several ways, he was naturally of a very religious disposition, and was generous and self-sacrificing to an exceptional degree. His many friends who knew him in Mungret and had experience of his high character and noble ideals will, while regretting his early death, have little doubt that his death was holy even as his life had been blameless. RIP

Born:
Entered: 1817, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1821

Not in any Catalogues of the time

Born: 07 March 1899, Australia
Entered: 10 September 1924, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1927

Leaving has something to do with monies

1925-1927: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1927-1928: Loyola Greenwich, Australia , working

Born: 29 June 1797, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1181, Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1832

◆ The English Jesuits 1650-1829 Geoffrey Holt SJ : Catholic Record Society 1984
Born 29/06/1797 Galway
Entered 07/09/1718
??LEFT 1832??

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary

by Geoffrey Holt

Daly, Peter. Laybrother.
b. June 29th, 1797, Galway, Ireland.
S.J. September 7th, 1818-32.
Hodder (nov) 1818-20.
Hodder 1820-7.
Stonyhurst 1827-32.
St Mary's Hall 1832.

(115).

1818-1820: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England (ANG), Novitiate
1820-1827: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England, working
1827-1831: Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England, working
1831-1832: St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England

Born: 07 February 1907, Bray, County Wicklow
Entered: 02 July 1938, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 06 April 1943

Baptised Robert Patrick Curley

Father was Robert. Mother was Margaret (Loughman)

Before entering he had worked as an upholsterer with his father. Initially after school he worked with a bookmaker.

Baptised at Holy Redeemer Bray, 11/02/1907
Confirmed at Holy Redeemer Bray by Dr Donnelly of Dublin, 14/05/1918

1938-1940: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1940-1943: Rathfarnham Castle, Maintenance

It is believed that he married after leaving.

Born: 24 January 1894, County Galway
Entered: 01 September 1918, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 31 May 1927

Born: 1641, Ireland
Entered: 20 November 1671, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1675

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent Nov 1671

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent Nov 1671 and in pencil (21) 20/11/1671

◆ Old/16 has : “C James Clarke”; DOB 1641 Ireland; Ent Nov 1671 Watten; Coad temp

◆ CATSJ A-H has a “Clark” an Irishman; DOB 1641 Ireland; Ent 20/11/1671 Watten
1672 at Watten
1675 Infirmarian at St Omer

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1641 Ireland; Ent November 1671 Watten as Brother

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1672 ANG Cat
Watten
Entered 20/11/1671
Brother Novice

1675 ANG Cat
Seminarium Audomarense (St Omer)
“Jacobus Clarck”
Aged 34
Entered 20/11/1671
Infirmarian

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CLARKE, JAMES, Temporal Coadjutor, a native of Ireland, born 1641; entered the Society at Watten, November 20, 1671

Born: 28 November 1899, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 March 1920, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Final Vows: 02 February 1933, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 22 December 1943 (from SFX Gardiner St)

1922-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate and then Infirmarian, and some time at1923 at Lowe House,St Helen’s, Lancashire (ANG) working
1931-1933: Milltown Park, Infirmarian
1933-1934: Clongowes Wood College, Infirmarian
1934-1943: SFX Gardiner Street, Infirmarian

(1972) Br Edward Keogh says he is married with a good job and living at Westfield Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin

Born: 08 August 1910, Rowan Terrace, Newbridge, County Kildare / Navan, County Meath
Entered: 18 May 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 24 February 1944

Educated at Dominican College, Newbridge, and the at Cosgroves Medical Hall, Newbridge to 1932.

Had been a chemist’s assistant before entry. Left school in 1929 and apprenticed to a pharmacist.

Baptised: St Conleth’s, Newbridge, 09/08/1910
Confirmed: Dr Patrick Foley of Kildare and Leighlin, at St Conleth’s Church, 31/07/1923

1935-1937: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1937-1938: St Mary's, Emo, Infirmarian
1938-1939: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Informarian
1939-1941: Milltown Park, Infirmarian and Library Assistant
1941-1944: Rathfarnham Castle, working

Sought re-entry in 1947.

Br Edward Keogh in 1972 said that Michael Byrne had since died. He had been married.

Born: 30 December 1907, Australia
Entered: 02 March 1928, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1938

1928-1830: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1930-1932: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), working (ASL from 1931)
1932-1938: St Aloysius, Sevenhills, South Australia, Australia, working

Born: 24 July 1871, Australia
Entered: 27 December 1892, Loyola, Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

1892-1894: Loyola, Greenwich (HIB), Novitiate
1894-1896: St Aloysius College SJ, Bourke Street, Sydneu NSW, Australia, working
1896-1897: St Mary’s, Miller Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, working

Born:
Entered: pre 1829

Left Society of Jesus: 1834

1829-1833: Clongowes Wood College SJ, working

Born: 31 January 1911, Clones, County Monaghan
Entered: 21 October 1939, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Final Vows: 02 February 1950, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 16 June 1955

Parents Patrick Beattie and Rose McCabe

Educated at Coranny Primary School, Clones, County Monaghan

Baptised at Sacred Heart, Clones County Monaghan, 31/01/1911
Confirmed at Sacred Heart, Clones County Monaghan by Dr McKenna of Clogher on 31/05/1925

1939-1941: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1941-1942: Rathfarnham Castle, assists in house
1942-1947: St Mary’s Emo, assisting in house and grounds
1947-1951: St Stanislaus College Tullabeg, assisting in house and grounds
1951-1955: Rathfarnham Castle, assisting in house and grounds

Address before leaving for Scotland in 1936 was Scotshouse, Clones, County Monaghan
Was living at Buchan Street, Crosshill, Glasgow at time of application for entry working as a labourer and involved in the Legion of Mary there. Had left school at 16 and worked as a labourer in Clones.