Creagh, Edward Barry, 1716-, Jesuit Priest

Person

Creagh, Edward Barry, 1716-, Jesuit Priest

19 August 1716-

Born: 19 August 1716, County Cork or County Limerick
Entered: 11 September 1735, Bordeaux, France - Aquitaniae Province (AQUIT)
Ordained: 17 September 1746, Bordeaux, France
Died: post 1769, Ireland
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) RIP after 1740
◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 11/09/1735 RIP after 1758

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Edward Creagh or Edward Barry Creagh” - must have been Cork or Limerick; DOB 19 or 25/08/1718; Ent 11/09/1735 Bordeaux (AQUIT)
First Vows 12/09/1737 in AQUIT
1737-1739 Taught Grammar at Poitiers. Was Minister and procurator in Nov 1739
1739-1740 Professor of Boarders at Irish College Poitiers (Michael Fitzgerald was Rector) and possibly at the same time as Br James Gillam?)*
1741-1743 Teaching Humanities and Rhetoric, and also Humanities at Pau College
1744-1748 Read and taught Theology and Philosophy also worked as a Missioner
1755 at Royal College Pau for 7 years
1761-1762 Teaching Theology at Bordeaux

*No Date - Rector College Hibernorum (Archive Coll Hib Rom LV 149)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
First Vows 12/09/1737 in AQUIT (in pen top of p 74)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda III Catalogi of Irish Mission 1700-1735 & 1735-1752 (Finegan)
1739-1740 Irish College Poitiers

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770

1737 AQUIT Cat
Novitiate Bordeaux
“Eduardus Creagh”
Born Irish
Entered 11/09/1735
Novice

1743 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Palencia
“Eduardus Creagh”
Born 25/06/1718; Irish
Entered 11/09/1735
Teaching Humanities 6

1754 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Palencia
“Eduardus Creagh”
Born 25/01/1718; Irish
Entered 11/09/1735
Professed Four Vows
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology 4; Teachin junior students 7, Teaching Philosophy 6; Missionarius 1; Doctor of Arts from Academy Palencia

1758 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Palencia
“Eduardus Creagh”
Born 25/01/1718; Irish
Entered 11/09/1735
Professed Four Vows
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology 4; Teachin junior students 7, Teaching Philosophy 6; Missionarius 1; Doctor of Arts from Academy Palencia; Socius Rector at Novitiate

1761 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Bordeaux
“Eduardus Creagh”
Teaching Theology; Confessor

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Ireland, August 19, 1716, and was received into the Society at Bordeaux, September 11, 1735, having already begun his ecclesiastical studies.

After his Noviceship, he spent seven years of Regency in the Colleges, at La Rochelle, Périgord, Pau and Agen. During this period, though not yet a priest, his name occurs with that of Father Michael Fitzgerald in the instrument of acceptance of the Ó Meagher burses bequeathed to the Irish College of Poitiers. He began his Theological course at the Grand Collège, Poitiers, but completed it at Bordeaux, where he was ordained Priest, September 17, 1746.

At the end of his studies he was appointed to the chair of Philosophy at the Royal College of Pau, and after six years there was appointed Professor of Theology at Bordeaux, where he remained up to the dissolution of the Society in France.

His name then disappears from all records until December 1, 1768, when he became Rector of the Irish College, Rome. He was replace in that office a year later, December 6, 1769.

The date and place of his death cannot be traced.