Born: 1657, Lille, France
Entered: 07 September 1678, Watten, Belgium - Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained: 1687, Liège, Belgium

Left Society of Jesus: 08 October 1689

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 07/09/1678

◆ Old/17 has “Morphie” Dimissi 08/10/1689 (ANG)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1657 Lille; Ent 07/09/1678 Watten; Ord 1687 Liège;

Studied Theology at Liège College and was ordained there 1687.

1687 Sent to Lancashire Mission.
1689 At Bruges, and is entered in the ANG CAT with many others on the Continent, as expelled from England in consequence of the Orange invasion.

No further trace

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
MURPHY, or MORPHY, JOHN, Father, born at Lille 1657 ; entered the Society at Watten, September 7, 1678; studied theology at Liege College, and was ordained Priest there in 1687, and sent to the Lancashire mission the same year, In 1689 he was at Bruges, and is entered in the Catalogue with many others on the Continent, as expelled from England in consequence of the Orange invasion. We do not trace him further.

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).