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Rev Jeremiah Murphy

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Jeremiah

Middle Names:

J

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Murphy

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Date of Ordination:

07-Jun-1873

Place of Ordination:

Carlow

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Maitland-Newcastle

Seminary:

Carlow College, Carlow, Ireland

Date of Death:

Place of Death:

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Biographical Notes

Dungog, Tamworth, Waitara, Broken Hill, etc, NSW

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ANZCC note: The information below may relate to two priests, one being Rev J Murphy, the other being Rev Jeremiah Murphy, one who arrived in November 1873, the other possibly in December 1875.

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English Shipping. Passengers, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November 1873, p 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13326888:

Per William Duthie, For Sydney. [...] Rev. J. Murphy, [...]

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Solemnisation of Marriages, Empire, Sydney, 14 January 1874, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60983205:

It is notified that, in conformity with the provisions of the Acts of Council, 19 Victoria, Nos. 30 and 34, the undermentioned officiating ministers have been registered at this office for the celebration of marriages: Roman Catholic Church (diocese of Maitland): The Rev. Denis English, Maitland; the Rev. Jeremiah Murphy, Raymond Terrace; the Rev. Michael Baron, Muswellbrook; the Rev. Timothy O'Neil, Newcastle. [...]

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Sydney Morning Herald, 26 January 1881, p 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13481635:

The following passengers are booked per the R.M.S. Hydaspes, which sails on Thursday next, at noon:—For Southampton: [...] Rev. J. Murphy, [...]

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Miscellaneous, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 5 February 1881, p 208, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161882393:

We understand that the Rev. J. Murphy, who was for nearly five years the resident pastor of Dungog, ministering to the wants of the Catholics of the Williams, Paterson, and Stroud, and later still of Muswellbrook, left the colony by the Hydaspes for England, with the object of recruiting his health. On leaving the above mentioned places the Rev. Father received handsome testimonials.

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New South Wales Government Gazette, Sydney, 14 November 1881, p 6165, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221697540:

Registrar General's Office,
Sydney, 22nd November, 1881.
IT is hereby notified, that in conformity with the provisions of the Acts of Council, 19 Victoria, Nos. 30 and 34, the undermentioned Officiating Minister has been registered at this office for the Celebration of Marriages:—
Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Jeremiah Murphy, West Maitland.
E. G. Ward,
Registrar General.

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Marriages, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 3 December 1881, p 953, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161919076:

The Rev. J. Murphy, of the Roman Catholic Church, West Maitland, has been registered for the celebration of marriages.

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Government Gazette. Trustees, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 14 July 1883, p 67, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162026625:

Trustees of the land at Conjola, county of St. Vincent, set apart for a Roman Catholic burial ground:— The Most Rev. Roger Bede Vaughan, the Rev. Jeremiah Murphy, [...]

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Murphy, Jeremiah

Date and place of birth unknown. Place of education unknown. Studied at St Patrick's College, Carlow. Ordained at Carlow for the diocese of Maitland on 7 June 1873. Arrived in Melbourne on passage to his diocese on Greensborough, December 1875. He was assigned to Dungog, where he remained until 1881 when transferred to Tamworth. His movements after Tamworth are unknown. Date and place of death unknown. Place of burial unknown.
(Sources: Campbell, FJ 7 Jan 1882 p 9, MDHC A-Z M168).

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)