Born: 03 April 1694, France
Entered: 07 September 1711, Watten, Belgium (ANG)
Ordained: 1729
Died: post 1737

Left Society of Jesus: 01 August 1724, Ghent, Belgium (ANG) Re entered ordained priest 1729 and LEFT 14 September 1737

Originally entered 07 September 1711 and left 1724

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
NUGENT,WILLIAM I meet with two Members of this name. The second was born in Ireland on the 13th of April, 1692, and promoted to the Priesthood on the 7th of September, 1729. He died the 14th of December, 1737; but I doubt if he continued in the Society. Q. Was not his name Birmingham?

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 07/09/1711 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/16 has : “P William Nugent”; DOB 03/04/1694 France; Ent 07/09/1711; RIP post 1723

◆ Old/17 has “Lynch” Dimissi 01/08/1724 Ghent (ANG)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 03/04/1694 in France of Irish parents; Ent 2nd or 07/09/1711 Watten BELG;
1720 At la Flèche
1723 At Ghent called simply “HIB” in CAT 1714

(References to him in ANG CAT 1714 and 1730

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Two Entries

DOB Ireland or France 3rd or 13/04/1692 or 1694; Ent 07/09/1711; RIP post 1723

1723 In Ghent

LEFT 14/09/1737

Real name “Birmingham”

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1714 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Nugent”
03/04/1694 Irish
Entered 07/09/1711
Studying Logic

1720 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Nugent”
03/04/1694 Irish
Entered 02/09/1711 Watten
Studying Philosophy 3, Theology 3

1720 FRA Cat
Collegium La Flèche
“Gulielmus Nugent”
03/04/1694 Irish
Entered 02/09/1711 Watten
Studying Philosophy 3, Theology 3

1723 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Nugent”
03/04/1694 France (Irish)
Entered 07/09/1711 Watten
Studying Philosophy 3, Theology 3; Taught Mathematics at St Omer for many months, now at Ghent

1727 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Nugent”
Dismissed August 1724 Ghent

1730 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Birmingham Nugent”
Born 1694
Entered 07/09/1711
Dismissed 01/08/1724
Entered 1729 (Re entered; ordained 1 month by now)
Admitted in Ireland 07/09/1729

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
NUGENT, WILLIAM, Father (No, 2), (Irish), bom in Ireland, April 13, 1692, or 1694. His real name was Birmingham. He left the Society September 14, 1737.

Born: 24 September 1724, Munster, Ireland
Entered: 03 October 1741, Paris, France
Ordained: 1753,
Final Vows: 02 February 1759

Left Society of Jesus: 1768

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) has RIP after 1768

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 03/10 or 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 Paris;
1746 At Tours College FRA teaching Grammar
1757 At Rouen College
1760-1761 At Irish College Poitiers - “Desig” for Irish Mission
1761-1762 In Ireland
1766-1768 Rector of Irish College Rome (07/01 or 12/11)
1768 Leaves Rome

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 FRA;

1746 Teaching Grammar at Tours (FRA CAT 1746)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda III Catalogi of Irish Mission 1700-1735 & 1735-1752 (Finegan)
1751-1752 Scholastic at Irish College Poitiers

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1743 FRA Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Rhetoric 1

1746 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 1

1749 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 02/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 3, Humanities 1

1754 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 24/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Humanities 5

Ordained 1753

1757 FRA Cat
Collegium Rouen
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741 Paris
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4

1761 FRA Cat
In Ireland
“Andreas Ryan”

1767 ROM Cat
Irish College Rome
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 10/10/1741
Final Vows 02/02/1759
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4, Theology 2; Missionarius 5; Rector from 11/06/1766

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Second Appendix
RYAN, ANDREW (Irish). He was born September 23, 1724; entered the Society October 3, 1741, and was teaching grammar at Tours in 1746. (Catal. Prov. Fran., 1746.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Munster September 24, 1724, and he entered the Society at Paris October 3, 1741.

After his Noviceship e studied Philosophy for two years at La Flèche, and was then sent in 1545 to Tours for his Regency. On September 25, 1750, he arrived in Poitiers from Tours. Here he studied Theology for the next four years at the Grand Collège* and resided at the Irish College. he was ordained Priest c 1753; At the end of his studies he made his Tertianship at Rouen, 1754-1755.

He was then appointed Professor of Philosophy at the College of Rouen, and later, Professor of Moral Theology at the College of Nevers.

On October 21, 1760, he arrived once more at Poitiers, this time on his way to the Irish Mission, but does not seem to have arrived in Ireland until the spring of the following year. No record of his missionary work in Ireland has survived.

He was summoned to Rome in 1766, and appointed Rector of the Irish College on June 11. He held that office until December 1, 1768. Some weeks previous to his departure from Rome, he had petitioned Pope Clement XIII for certain indulgences in view of his return to the Irish Mission. His name then disappears entirely from the records.

It has been suggested that he may be identical with a Father Andrew Ryan living at Tullybrackey (Bruff) in 1766, according to a census of the Catholic and Protestant populations made that year (no precise date given). This Andrew Ryan became PP of Fedamore in 17745 and died in 1814.

(Note: the name of Andrew Ryan does not appear on the list of Irish Jesuits who accepted the Brief of Suppression)

• It is possible that Ryan finished Theology in Paris, as he is mentioned in a triennial Catalogue, 1754, as at the Collège Louis le Grand. The difficulty of locating him is increased by the fact that between 1750 and 1754 he was in Aquitaine, and then in Paris, and the yearly Catalogue (brevis) are wanting between 1752 and 1754.