Rev William O'Regan

Title:

Rev

First Name:

William

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

O'Regan

Order:

Date of Birth:

30-Jun-1898

Place of Birth:

Finuge, Listowel, Co Kerry

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Jan - 1924

Place of Ordination:

Kilkenny

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, Ireland

Date of Death:

16-Jan-1967

Place of Death:

Tralee, Co Kerry

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

1967

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Ireland

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Townsville InghamCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville Railway EstateCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville Charters TowersCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville CathedralCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville ProserpineCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville Magnetic IslandCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
Townsville West EndCatholic Leader, 16 February 1967
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Biographical Notes

Irish birth record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1898/02067/1789973.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Listowel, Registrar's District Ballyhorgan. Births Registered in the District of Ballyhorgan in the Union of Listowel in the County of Kerry. No. 40. On 30 June 1898 at Finuge, birth of William, M, father Michael Regan of Finuge, labourer, mother Johanna Regan formerly Deenihan; informant: Bartholomew Regan his mark, occupier, Finuge; 30 July 1898; Morgan O'Connor, Registrar."

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Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1967/04209/4076254.pdf: "1967. Deaths Registered in the District of Tralee No. 2 in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Tralee in the County of Kerry. No. 367. On 16 January 1967 at Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee, death of William O'Regan, c/o Thomas O'Regan, 12 Church Street, Listowel, male, bachelor, 66 years, Retired Australian Parish Priest; of respiratory infection, congestive cardiac failure, auricular fibrillation, certified; informant: Mary Sheahan, present at death, of Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee; 21 January 1967; Denis Buckley, Registrar."

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Father W. O'Regan dies in Ireland, Catholic Leader, Brisbane, 16 February 1967, p 30:

Townsville.—News has been received of the death in Ireland of Father William O'Regan who is remembered well in many parts of North Queensland.

Father O'Regan was born in Ireland in 1898 at Finuga Lenman, Kerry, and educated to the priesthood at St. Kieran's Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood by the Archbishop R. Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, on January 1924 at Kilkenny.

He worked in most parts of the Townsville Diocese, at Ingham, Railway Estate, Charters Towers, the Cathedral, Prosperpine, Magnetic Island, and West End.—R.I.P.