Born: 18 January 1752, Antigua, West Indies
Entered: 07 September 1769, Ghent Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained: 1776
Died: 04 November 1806, Trinidad, West Indies - Angliae Province (ANG)

Brother of John Nihill (ANG) RIP date and place not recorded, but likely in West Indies

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Note from Bishop Laurence Arthur Nihell Entry
There were three other Nihell’s SJ. One was the brother of the Bishop, John and Edward who DOB at Antigua, and entered the Society at Ghent in 1768 and 1769. Edward died a victim of charity attending negroes at Trinidad in 1826 (cf Foley’s Collectanea)

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet
◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 1769 (cf Cat Chr and Foley p546)

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
NIHELL,EDWARD, born in Antigua, the 18th of January, 1752 : in the 17th year of his age embraced the pious institute of St. Ignatius. At the time of the expulsion of his English Brethren from Bruges, he was one of the Masters; and subsequently at Liege, filled the same employment. Here he was ordained Priest, and said his first Mass, on the 6th of June, 1776. Twelve years later, he succeeded the Reverend Charles Forrester, as the Missionary at Wardour. After discharging his functions for 14 years, so as to endear his memory for ever, to that Congregation, he left for Trinidad, and there fell a victim of Charity, on the 4th of November, 1806, in attending the poor Negroes. He was truly a man of much merit, esteemed for sound sense, and an amiable temper; “full of kindness and goodness”.

Born: 24 June 1750, Antigua, West Indies
Entered: 07 September 1768, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained: c 1775
Died: West Indies
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 07/09/1768

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 07/09/1768 (CAT 1768)
“John and Edward were brothers and both Irish (Hogan)”

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 24/06/1750; Ent 07/09/1768;

At the date of the Suppression in 1773 he was in Second year of Theology, and he went home to Antigua on family business, intending to return.

Note from Bishop Laurence Arthur Nihell Entry
There were three other Nihell’s SJ. One was the brother of the Bishop, and John and Edward who DOB at Antigua, and entered the Society at Ghent in 1768 and 1769. Edward died a victim of charity attending negroes at Trinidad in 1826 (cf Foley’s Collectanea)

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
NIHILL, JOHN, Scholastic, elder brother of Edward, born June 24, 1750; entered the Society September 7, 1768. At the date of the suppression, 1773, he was in his second year's theology; he went home to Antigua on family business intending shortly to retum. ((Records S.J., vol. V. p. 187.)

◆ The English Jesuits 1650-1829 Geoffrey Holt SJ : Catholic Record Society 1984
NIHILL or NIHELL
Brother of Edward RIP
Born 24/06/1750 Antugua, West Indies
Educated Bruges College 1763-1768
Entered 07/09/1768 Watten
1771-1773 Liège Philosophy
1773 Bruges College
1773-1775 Liège and Liège Academy
Ordained 1775
1775 To West Indies

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary

by Geoffrey Holt

Nihill or Nihell, John. ?Priest.
b. June 24th, 1750, Antigua, West Indies.
br. of Edward. e. Bruges College 1763-c.8.
S.J. September 7th, 1768.
Watten (nov) 1769.
Liège (phil) 1771-3,
Liège (theol) 1773.
Liège Academy 1774, 1775.
To West Indies 1775.
?Ordained priest.
Date and place of death not recorded.

(Fo.7; CRS.69; 91; AHSJ.42/293; Hu. Text 2/704; 54 f.37v; 113; 51 ff.304, 306; Chad.363).

Born: 28 March 1735, Ireland
Entered: 07 February 1754, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained: 1759
Final Vows: 02 February 1770
Died: 05 March 1807, Newhall, Chelmsford, Essex, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Readmitted to Society 1803

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :

Two Entries
Brian or O’Brien or Briant
DOB 28 March 1735 Ireland; Ent 07 February 1754 Watten; FV 02 February 1770; RIP 28/02 or 05 March 1807 Newhall, Chelmsford aged 72
1766 He was a Missioner in Liverpool.
He spent ten years in the West India Mission, and in 1773 was in Antigua. Returning to England on account of ill health, he was sent to Newhall, Chelmsford, and died there 18/02 or 05 March 1807 aged 72
He had re-entered and renewed his Vows in the Restored Society when he died.

◆ In Old/15 (1) and Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Briant alias O’Brien”; DOB 28 March 1735; Ent 1754 pr 1752
In ANG Cat of 1763
1767 Missionary

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
O’BRIEN, PETER, was born on the 28th of March, 1735, and entered the Novitiate at Watten, on the 7th of September, 1754, after defending Philosophy with great credit. Losing sight of him for many years, I renew acquaintance with him at Newhall, Essex, where the venerable Father rendered his soul to God, in July, 1807, or as another account in forms me, on the 28th of February, that year.