Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 131:

Davy, Owen (Eugene), Rt. Rev., D.D., Irish
Grand Record in Sandhurst Diocese
To the Irish Owen must equal Eugene for Owen Davy often signed himself Eugene in baptism records. He came from Swineford, County Mayo, and was born in 1843. The name appears as No. 1706 on the list of Maynooth Ordinations and Students that appeared about ten years ago in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record: Matriculation 15.11.1862; Ordination 18.5.1869. Before coming to Australia he was in charge in the parish of birth. Arriving in Victoria in 1876 with a group of Mercy Sisters, who later came to Benalla, Owen was quick to show his talent and receive favour from his bishop, Dr. Martin Crane. On appointment as an assistant at Benalla in 1880 he was made an honorary Doctor in Divinity. After four years in Benalla he was recalled to Bendigo and made a Dean in February 1885. A year later he went on an overseas holiday and on return in 1887 was sent to Benalla as Pastor. The twenty years that followed, with a break in 1903-4, would appear to mark a great advancement in the equipping of the parish. A church was built in Violet Town in 1899 and schools were built at Benalla and Dookie. The old presbytery, 'Vaucluse', on the Mansfield Road, was replaced by something more comfortable next to St. Joseph's Church. As a reward for consistent service and for introducing the F.C.J. nuns he was created an Archdeacon in November 1901. It was at this stage that he became Vicar General of the Diocese. The bringing of a famous church bell in 1904, the building of a new St. Joseph's Church in 1907, the raising of funds for a Bishop's House in Bendigo — these and many more achievements are recorded in a Benalla centenary publication of 1976. Death came to the zealous servant in January 1908. Some records give the date as the 21st; others as the 23rd. The age was 65. In a Will dated 19.2.1903 he left £3,988 to religious, charitable and educational purposes in the parish that he'd brought to a high status. His remains were interred in the local cemetery, but transferred to St. Joseph's Church in June 1909. And the items in the M.D.H.C. file at Torquay are largely due to the painstaking researcher on the Benalla scene, Mrs Freda Aughertson.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 7)