Peter Cogan | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev Peter Cogan Title: Rev First Name: Peter Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Cogan Order: Date of Birth: 1867 Place of Birth: Co Meath Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: 1892 Place of Ordination: All Hallows, Dublin Country of Ordination: Ireland Ordination Diocese: Maitland-Newcastle Seminary: All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland Date of Death: 15-Feb-1935 Place of Death: Balbriggan, Co Dublin Country of Death: Ireland Date of Burial: 1935 Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Ireland Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1935/04830/4301912.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Balbriggan, Registrar's District Balrothery. 1935. Deaths Registered in the District of Balbriggan in the Union of Balrothery in the County of Dublin. No. 368. On 15 February 1935 at Balbriggan, death of Peter Cogan, male, bachelor, age 68 years, Catholic priest; cause of death: myocardial degeneration, syncope, certified; informant: Anthony J. Joyce, Catholic Priest, present at death, of Balbriggan; 13 March 1935; Philip Fleurran, Interim Registrar." --- Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 58: Cogan, Peter, Irish Pastor of Scone, Maitland Diocese Peter Cogan was born in County Meath and studied for the priesthood at All Hallows, Dublin. Ordained at the College in 1892 he set out to take up his duties in the Maitland Diocese at the end of the same year. Directory tracings show: assistant at Muswellbrook 1893-6, assistant at Branxton 1896-9. Parish priest in Murrurundi 1899-1916. Murrurundi had as outposts Haydonton and Blandford - both with churches. A parochial school in the parish centre held its attendance of 70 pupils during Father Cogan's stay. Transferred to Scone in 1916 he served that parish, while living with a retired P.P. incapacitated with rheumatism - Fr. Edmond McGrath. At the same time that the latter died in 1919, Cogan fell into ill-health himself and went on leave. At least that is how he is listed in later directories. Later his name disappears from the clergy list, and Maitland records show that he died in Ballinlough, County Meath "among his own", on 22 February 1935. (Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7) Ref.: History of Maitland Diocese, by Fr. Harold Campbell.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Peter

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Cogan

Order:

Date of Birth:

1867

Place of Birth:

Co Meath

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1892

Place of Ordination:

All Hallows, Dublin

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Maitland-Newcastle

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death:

15-Feb-1935

Place of Death:

Balbriggan, Co Dublin

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

1935

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

FindaGrave - Person Photo

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Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1935/04830/4301912.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Balbriggan, Registrar's District Balrothery. 1935. Deaths Registered in the District of Balbriggan in the Union of Balrothery in the County of Dublin. No. 368. On 15 February 1935 at Balbriggan, death of Peter Cogan, male, bachelor, age 68 years, Catholic priest; cause of death: myocardial degeneration, syncope, certified; informant: Anthony J. Joyce, Catholic Priest, present at death, of Balbriggan; 13 March 1935; Philip Fleurran, Interim Registrar."

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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, p 58:

Cogan, Peter, Irish
Pastor of Scone, Maitland Diocese
Peter Cogan was born in County Meath and studied for the priesthood at All Hallows, Dublin. Ordained at the College in 1892 he set out to take up his duties in the Maitland Diocese at the end of the same year. Directory tracings show: assistant at Muswellbrook 1893-6, assistant at Branxton 1896-9. Parish priest in Murrurundi 1899-1916. Murrurundi had as outposts Haydonton and Blandford - both with churches. A parochial school in the parish centre held its attendance of 70 pupils during Father Cogan's stay. Transferred to Scone in 1916 he served that parish, while living with a retired P.P. incapacitated with rheumatism - Fr. Edmond McGrath. At the same time that the latter died in 1919, Cogan fell into ill-health himself and went on leave. At least that is how he is listed in later directories. Later his name disappears from the clergy list, and Maitland records show that he died in Ballinlough, County Meath "among his own", on 22 February 1935.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7)
Ref.: History of Maitland Diocese, by Fr. Harold Campbell.

Rev Peter Cogan

Biographical Notes