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Rev Bonaventure Curr OSB

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Henry

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Bonaventure

Surname:

Curr

Order:

OSB

Date of Birth:

1821

Place of Birth:

TAS

Country of Birth:

Australia

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

07-Jun-1888

Place of Death:

Subiaco NSW

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1888

Place of Burial:

Subiaco NSW

Country of Burial:

Australia

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Appointments Table

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Sydney SubiacoChaplain to Benedictine Convent18761888Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Darlinghurst, Parramatta, etc, NSW

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, pp 114-115:

Curr, Henry Bonaventure, O.S.B., Australian
Tasmanian Born Benedictine

Correspondence about this priest has already been published in Footprints, coming from the researcher of Benedictine personalities, Sister M. Gregory O.S.B., Pennant Hills. It can be taken for granted from the correspondence that Sister has had with Mrs. Sholte Douglas, great-grandaughter of the Tasmanian pioneer, Edward Curr of the V.D.L. Company, that Henry Bonaventure was the fourth son of John Curr, who was a brother of Edward. Several of the Curr families were sent to Stoneyhurst (a Jesuit College) to study and it's presumed that H.B. was such a one. There is no record of his being educated at Lyndhurst. A 'George Bonaventure' joined the Benedictines at Mount St. Bernard's Abbey , Leicestershire, and it's supposed that G.B. and H.B. are identical. From 1876 onwards Henry Bonaventure appears consistently on Directory lists as Chaplain at Subiaco Convent. When that institution was sold to get away from the hustle and bustle of suburbanism and industrialism, the remains of priests and religious who were buried there were transferred apparently to the nearby North Rocks Cemetery (A statement subject to correction!). Father Curr died at Subiaco Convent on 7 June 1888.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 4)
Information: As quoted.

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