Hobart, Ross, Tas; Adelaide

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Shipping Intelligence. Arrivals, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 1848, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12901814:

February 6. - St. Vincent, ship, 629 tons, Captain Young, from Liverpool the 7th October. Passengers - Most Rev. John Bede Polding, D.D., Roman Catholic Archbishop, Rev. Peter Magagnotto, Rev. John Gowrbeillon, Rev. Ruggiero Emanuele, Roman Catholic Priests ; Rev. Mr. Luckie, Rev. Mr. P. Ryan, Deacons; Messrs. E. Caldwell, B. Caldwell, and E. Moore, Sub-Deacons; Messrs. Counery, Sheridan, Neville, and Morin; Mrs. Mary Magdalen Leclerc, Miss Mary Scholastica Gregory, George and Henry Thurkell, and William Tyrer.

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Archdiocese of Sydney, Sydney Chronicle, 9 Sep 1848, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31757361:

The Rev. Father Peter Magagnotto will be stationed at Windsor, and will be assisted by the Rev. Mr. E. Caldwell.

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The Church, Sydney Chronicle, 23 September 1848, p 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31757428:

THE Bishop of Adelaide quitted Sydney a week ago, to return to his diocese, by the brig Phantom; but owing to contrary winds the vessel was detained until yesterday. The departure of his lordship was much regretted by those with whom he has abided during his sojourn in Sydney, and by the many residents in this city who have on former times experienced his pastoral care; but the affairs of his diocese imperatively demanded his presence. The Bishop has been accompanied by the Rev. Mr. E. Caldwell, who was originally to have been stationed at Windsor.

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, pp 14-15:

Caldwell, Thomas Edmund, OSB, English
Two Aged Women and One Lame Dog Came to My Church
The Caldwell Brothers, Thomas Edmund and John Bernard, came to Australia in the company of other clerics and nuns, leaving Liverpool on 7.10.1847. They were the sons of Peter Caldwell and Margaret Taylor of Warrington, England. Already professed as Benedictines they were seemingly sub-deacons when they arrived in Sydney at the end of 1847. John Bernard does not come into the reckoning in this list, for he returned to England for Ordination on 24 June 1850 and, after a faithful service in many Benedictine Houses in England and Wales, died on 3 May 1908. Reverting to the trip from Liverpool to Sydney with Dr. Polding, I recently read a Diary of the voyage by one of the Benedictine Nuns in the party in an old Downside Review. The food and conditions aboard were appalling, yet Polding insisted on a strict routine in study and prayer by all monks and nuns on board. Possibly the Caldwell brothers got a poor impression of their spiritual master, for neither stayed long at St. Mary's Monastery in Sydney. As stated John Bernard left shortly for Douay where both had been educated, and Thomas Edmund made his way to Adelaide. I am indebted to Mr. Frank Roache of Brooklyn Park, Adelaide, for sending me extracts of a diary that Thomas Edmund kept while in the Adelaide Diocese. To quote therefrom: 25 July: Ordained priest by Bishop Murphy. Aug 5: Feast of Our Lady of the Snow. Said my first Mass. And so the entries go. The first months were spent on duty in Adelaide and T.E. was then appointed first Pastor of Willunga. From the Diary we learn that the Church of St. Joseph was blessed by Murphy on May 5, 1850, a few days after the Pastor had taken up residence. And after recording parish happenings of less importance the Diary ends on a rather despairing note: 1852 (exact date not recorded): "I left Willunga because nearly all my congregation went to the Victorian gold diggings. The finale came one Sunday morning when only two aged women and one lame dog came to my church. So I set out for Hobart Town; others had left their missions also..." The Hobart stay was brief also. After a term at the main church in the town he was appointed chaplain in turn of the Penal Stations at Ross and Peter's Pass. In either '54 or '55 he returned to England and gave service, like his brother, in many Benedictine Houses, recalling no doubt 'life in the raw' on the voyage to Australia, in Willunga, and in crude penitentiaries of Van Diemen's Land. He died at St. Malvern Monastery, England, on 1 March 1897 at the age of 77.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 12)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay per Mr. Frank Roache, Brooklyn Park, Adelaide; Sister Gregory, Pennant Hills.