Rev John Collins

Title:

Rev

First Name:

John

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Collins

Order:

Date of Birth:

1870

Place of Birth:

Newtownsandes (Moyvane), Co Kerry

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1893

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Melbourne

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death:

30-Nov-1926

Place of Death:

Melbourne VIC

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1926

Place of Burial:

Melbourne VIC

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/286693860

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Melbourne Dandenong18941895Linane Vol 2
Melbourne Brunswick18961897Linane Vol 2
Melbourne West Melbourne18981899Linane Vol 2
Melbourne St Francis'18991900Linane Vol 2
Melbourne Clifton Hill1900Linane Vol 2
Melbourne Geelong19001902Linane Vol 2
Melbourne Woodend19031905Linane Vol 2
Melbourne Trentham19051911Linane Vol 2
Melbourne South YarraParish PriestLinane Vol 2
Melbourne Northcote1913Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Trentham, South Yarra, Balaclava, North Brunswick, Flemington, etc, Vic

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 67:

Collins, John, Irish
First Pastor of Trentham, Victoria
An account of Father John's life and death can be read in the files of the 'Melbourne Advocate' 2.12.1926. He was a generous man, leaving his worldly estate to establish bursaries in All Hallows and Corpus Christi College, Werribee. Further he gave service in no less than fourteen places in the Melbourne Archdiocese. If he did have a weakness (as reputed) the One who admitted His thirst on Calvary, will no doubt understand. John was born at Newtownsandes in County Kerry in 1870. The All Hallows records say nothing of his family origins, but the Melbourne 'Advocate' records the death of his mother Mary, in November 1901 at the age of 57. Education was obtained at the Parish School, Listowel and at All Hallows. He was ordained in mid 1893 and arrived in Melbourne on the 'Curzo' in October in the same year. The list of Directory tracings is lengthy: Dandenong (1894)(1895); Brunswick (1896)(1897); West Melbourne (1898)(1899); St. Francis' (1899) (1900) ; Clifton Hill (1900); Geelong (1900)(1901)(1902); Geelong (1903); Woodend (1903)(1905). The curate at Woodend was apparently given that part of the parish where the Irish and the 'praties' were predominant - to wit, Trentham. He appears to have settled down there for a six year stay, from 1905 to 1911. After a trip to his homeland in 1911 he started to get on the move again (or was it the Archbishop making the swift shifts?). First, P.P. of South Yarra, then temporary charge of Northcote (1913). From there to Flemington (1915)(1916). Balaclava in 1918. Then, in turn, Adm. Carlton and P.P. of North Brunswick in 1919. He would then seem to have gone back to Balaclava as P.P. (1919)(1922)(1925). A second time P.P. of South Yarra (1926) would seem to be the end of "life's fitful fever" . He died in Coonara Private Hospital on St. Kilda Road on 30 November 1926. The age was 56 and the Mortuary Chapel in the Melbourne General Cemetery holds his remains.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 8)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay.