New South Wales Government Gazette, Sydney, 29 February 1856, p 753, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228681611:

The following is a List of Officiating Ministers whose names have been registered at this Office, in conformity with the Provisions of the Act of the Legislative Council, 19 Vic., Nos. 30 and 34, for the Celebration of Marriages in the Colony of New South Wales. [...]
Roman Catholic Church
O'Quinlivan Patrick J., Port Macquarie. [...]

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Catholic Church, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 8 November 1856, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115557999:

St. Patrick's Church, Cundle, Manning River, was opened for Divine Service on Sunday, 12th October, on which occasion a sermon was preached by the venerated Pastor, Rev. P.J.O. Quinlivan, taking for his text "Domus mea domus orationis est." [My House is the house of prayer, Luke c. 19, v. 46.] The Pastor returned thanks to the Cundle Company, for granting a site for the Church, and also for their generous contribution: he begged moreover to thank the Protestant settlers who had contributed to the building of the Church, as his flock is poor, being nearly all new settlers. [...]

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Gloucester and Macquarie, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 1858, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13005739:

[From Our Correspondents.]
Kempsey, Macleay River, 16th January.—In my last I mentioned that Mr. Barker, our worthy member, proposed visiting us, and, at a meeting held the day of my writing, it was resolved to give him a public dinner. [...] After grace having been said by the Rev. Mr. Holland, and justice done to the good things, and the cloth being removed, the Rev. Mr. O'Quinlivan returned thanks, when the usual loyal toasts of "The Queen," "The Prince Consort and Royal Family," and "The Governor-General," were given. [...] Captain Thornton then proposed the "Guests from Port Macquarie," which was duly acknowledged by the Rev. Mr. Holland, who then proposed "The religious and moral interests of the districts" to which the Rev. Mr. O'Quinlivan replied. [...]

Port Macquarie, 19th January.—[...] The Rev. Mr. Quinlivan also made an appropriate speech, expressing his earnest desire to see all the forests of the colony cleared, and his sincere wish that all personal misunderstandings should cease in our little community.

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Pic-Nic, Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, 12 February 1859, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189983660:

On Monday last an excellent pic-nic was given on the Armidale race-course, to the children attending the R.C. school, of which Mr. Brown is teacher, and their friends. The Rev. Mr. McCarthy, as usual, was present, to the gratification of all, but particularly the youngsters engaged in a number of scrambles. The Very Rev. Dean Lynch, on a visit from Maitland, and the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan, from Port Macquarie, were also present, and seemed to participate in enjoying the affair. [...]

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Kempsey, Empire, Sydney, 29 November 1860, p 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60502583:

[From Our Correspondent]
On the 25th of October, the Rev. P. Quinlivan, R.C., laid the foundation of a chapel, in connection with the Roman Catholic Church. The reverend gentleman was attended on the occasion by about 60 of his hearers. The day was fine, and everything was conducted with becoming propriety.

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Deaths, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 July 1862, p 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13231893:

On the 25th April last, at his residence, Ballyurgha, county Clare, Ireland, Mr. Michael Quinlivan, aged 85 years, father of the Rev. M. Quinlivan, P.P. Kilmachdaugh, diocese of Killaloe, and of Rev. P.J. O. Quinlivan, R.C.P., Port Macquarie, New South Wales. Requiescat in pace.

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Payment of Clergymen, Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, 8 August 1863, p 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188134361:

The following items in connection with the Northern Districts are taken from the Ecclesiastical Return for 1862. [...]
Roman Catholic Church.
Paid by Government [...] Brisbane Water—Rev. H. N. Woolfrey—To the 31st October—Transferred to Wellington—succeeded by P. J. Quinlivan, £150 [...]
Supported by Voluntary Contributions [...]
Port Macquarie— Rev. Quinlivan [...]

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Laying the Foundation Stone of the New Roman Catholic Church, "St. Mary, Star of the Sea", The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News, 3 February 1864, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128921313:

Yesterday the foundation stone of the New Roman Catholic Church, "St. Mary, Star of the Sea," was laid in this city.

After divine service had been performed by His Grace the most Reverend Archbishop Polding assisted by the Rev. Father Cusse and other clergymen, a collection was made amounting to £11. His Grace, accompanied by the very Rev. Sheehy, V.G.; the very Rev. — Keating V.G., Rev. — Kenny, of East Maitland ; Rev. Phelan, of West Maitland ; Rev. — Dunn of Raymond Terrace; Rev. — Quinlivan, of Brisbane Water; and the Rev. — Cusse, of this city, then proceeded to the site of the new building [...]

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Missing Friends, Messages, &c., The Argus, Melbourne, 30 December 1864, p 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5736802:

If James M. Quinlivan is alive he is requested to write to his brother, the Rev P.J.O. Quinlivan, of Brisbane Water, New South Wales, or to Rev. M. Quinlivan, Gower-hall, county Clare, Ireland, as he can now get his property in Ireland.

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St Benedict's Young Men's Society, Empire, Sydney, 27 January 1865, p 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60564835:

[...] Alderman Hurley next proposed the health of his Grace the Arch- bishop and the clergy of the arch-diocesc. They were all acquainted with the great Christian goodness of their reverend prelate, and were better able to realise the opinion and love in which he was held than he (Mr. Hurley) was to express it. The clergy of the arch- diocese they held in the highest respect and esteem. The toast was received with all honour, and was res- ponded to by the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan. He hoped that his Grace would be long spared to exercise his able guidance over them, and that his life would be pro- longed to enable him to carry out to a greater extent the good works that he had been engaged in. The Rev. Mr. Quinlivan then proposed the health of the Rev. T. McCarthy, and prosperity to St. Benedict's Young Men's Society.[...]

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Manning River, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 6 April 1865, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18707941:

The Catholic congregation have already made a commencement to build a small church; their treasurer (the Rev P. Quinlivan), now at Brisbane Water, having a small amount of funds collected for the purpose in hand, it is now intended to commence at once. The building will be small, but neat, and an ornament to the town.

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Local Items, The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales, 26 May 1866, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article266383861:

Among the visitors to our sanctum this week, was our old friend, Rev. Mr. Quinlivan, formerly the Catholic clergyman invested with the charge of the Manning district. We were glad to find the old gentleman as fat and as genial as ever. We should be very glad to welcome him back to the Manning, but we believe he is better provided for elsewhere.

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Occurrences on the Manning River during the Year 1866: May, The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales, 5 January 1867, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article266386333:

Rev. Mr. Quinlivan, the late Catholic Clergyman made a flying visit to the Manning. He was warmly welcomed.

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Marriage, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 21 December 1867, p 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18728865:

December the 7th, by special license, at St. Bridget's, Raymond Terrace, by the Rev. P. J. O'Quinlivan, Alexander Brilliant, fourth son of Archibald McPherson, Miller's Forest, to Emily Adline, second daughter of James Bignell, Bandon Grove.

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The Addresses to the Prince, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 26 March 1868, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18727541:

Elsewhere is notified the fact that a number of addresses to the Prince have been published in an Extraordinary to the Government Gazette, issued on Friday, together with a general reply from his Royal Highness. The addresses, together with the signatures appended, cover some thirteen pages of the Gazette. We must content ourselves with mentioning that they include addresses from the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly; [...] from P. J. O'Quinlivan, R.C.C., and the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Raymond Terrace, Miller's Forest, and the surrounding district; [...]

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Raymond Terrace, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 27 June 1868, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119442310:

(From a Correspondent.) It may not be uninteresting to your Catholic readers to know, that Father Mounier of the Marist Fathers opened a Spiritual Retreat in this parish on Thursday, 28th May, which finally closed on Sunday evening, 14th June. One of the objects of his visit was to assist the pastor of the district, Father O'Quinlivan, in instructing those who were preparing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. [...] On Sunday, 14th June, his Lordship the Bishop of Maitland arrived at the Terrace, somewhere about 11 o'clock. The persons who had been preparing for Confirmation were awaiting him at the school house, and on his arrival they walked in procession to meet his Lordship to the residence of Father O'Quinlivan; thence the procession proceeded to St. Bridget's Church, the children as they walked sang some of those beautiful hymns of the Church. [...] The Holy Sacrament of Confirmation was then administered by the Bishop, assisted by Father Mounier to eighty-six persons—forty-five male and forty-one female. [...] At the conclusion the persons who had been Confirmed walked back to the residence of our worthy pastor, in the same order they entered the church, the children again singing on their return in procession, his Lordship with Fathers Mounier and O'Quinlivan, joining as before. [...] June 19th, 1868.

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Visit of Archbishop Polding, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 11 August 1868, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18724983:

The Venerable Archbishop Polding visited Maitland on Friday last, and in company with Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, Fathers Colletti, Phelan, Lennard, Quinlivan, and Welsh, visited St John's School, West Maitland. His Grace expressed himself highly pleased with it. On Saturday the Archbishop returned to Newcastle, where, on Sunday, he administered the rite of confirmation.

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Table Talk, The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales, 17 October 1868, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article266390412:

We are glad to hear that the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan has returned to this district. He replaces Father Coghlan, who has gone elsewhere. So far as we have heard, this change will not be complained of by any of the members of the communion of which Mr. Quinlivan is a minister.

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Shipping. Arrivals—November 20, Empire, Sydney, 21 November 1868, p 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60829405:

Ballina, steamer, 200 tons, Maides, from Macleay River and Port Macquarie. Passengers— [...] Rev Mr. Quinlivan [...]

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New South Wales Government Gazette, Sydney, 12 January 1869, p 49, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228675696:

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Sydney, 11th January, 1869.
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint The Reverend P.J. O'Quinlivan to be Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Gaol at Port Macquarie.
John Robertson.

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Death by Drowning of the Rev Mr O'Quinlivan, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 28 January 1869, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18734528:

A great many of our readers in the neighbourhood of Raymond Terrace, and other parts of this district, will see with painful interest the brief notice in our telegram, that the Rev. Father O'Quinlivan has been drowned at Port Macquarie, while bathing. If we are correct in believing this to be the same Catholic clergyman who was so long stationed at Raymond Terrace, and who left there for Port Macquarie quite recently, we shall no doubt receive a fitting tribute to his virtues from some of our correspondents who knew him well. The leading characteristic we have ourselves heard in connection with Mr. O'Quinlivan's life and habits, was that he was truly a "Catholic" minister, in the sense of being the warm friend of every good man, of every religions denomination. He was, if we have been rightly informed, a man who, had he lived to be old, would have acquired in some wider sphere a character for universal benevolence and charity, united with learning, similar to that borne by the late Venerable Archdeacon McEncroe—who was mourned by all.

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Port Macquarie. Melancholy Case of Drowning, Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales, 30 January 1869, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article266390797:

[From a Correspondent]
Intelligence probably has reached you ere this of the lamented death by drowning of the Rev. P.J.O. Quinlivan, who was I understand well known at the Manning. The circumstances connected with the painful event were as follows:—On last Friday evening, the 22nd instant, the deceased gentleman, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. O'Farrell, went for a ride along the beach, and after passing the windmill for some distance in the direction of Nobbys, Mr. Quinlivan, who had been in the habit of bathing frequently in the sea, for the benefit of his health, suggested to Mr. O'Farrell the desirability of taking a bath. The latter, however, did not feel inclined to enter the water, and leaving the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan to bathe alone, he continued his ride along the beach till such time as he thought Mr. Quinlivan would be ready to rejoin him. Returning therefore, to the place where Mr. Quinlivan had dismounted to bathe, he found his horse tied up and his clothes on the rock where he had undressed, but he himself was nowhere to be seen. Soon the painful conclusion was forced upon him that his reverend friend was drowned! After searching about among the rocks for a time, he returned to town and gave the alarm. The police and a number of the townspeople at once proceeded to the scene of the catastrophe in hopes of finding the body, but without success. The search was continued on the following days, but I regret to say with a similarly unsuccessful result. I need scarcely add that this melancholy event has spread a deep gloom over the town; for, besides the esteem entertained for the deceased gentleman by members of his own persuasion, he was cordially respected by his neighbors of other denominations.

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 58: "Quinlivan (O'Quinlivan), Patrick Joseph / Ir./ Syd. 1855- Drowned Port Macquarie 22.1.'69."