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Rev Hugh Brady

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Hugh

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Brady

Order:

Date of Birth:

Jan - 1830

Place of Birth:

Castletara

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1864

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death:

17-Oct-1901

Place of Death:

Perth WA

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1901

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Australia

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
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End Year
Source
Perth BunburyLinane Vol 1
Perth SubiacoLinane Vol 1
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 30:

Brady, Hugh, Irish
Hardy Pioneer in Bunbury and Elsewhere, W.A.

b. Castletara, Kilmore Dioc. in Jan. 1830; ed. AH; ord. '64; arr. in W.A. '66. Most of his career was spent in Bunbury between the '70's and 90's. A hardy traveller, he was sent on visitation to the Kimberleys in 1888-9, saying Mass and giving ministrations in lonely camps and settlements. He enumerates the places and poor results in a report furnished to his bishop. (Perth Cathedral Archives). The harsh situation would have daunted a man of lesser strength and Faith. Brady figures prominently in Ponsoby Cammilieri's 'Memoirs of a Kimberley Prospector, 1886-9' and published in the 'Journal of the W.A. Historical Society', (Perth 1964). Extracts are quoted in Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 7, p 29. In the '90's Father Hugh was the genial pastor of Subiaco. When he died on 17.10.1901 at the age of 71, historian Reilly later paid the glowing tribute: "There are few priests who have done better work ... there is certainly none less modest or less desirous of what is generally called popularity." His grave is in the Wembley Orphanage grounds (probably now in other hands and serving a different purpose than that of an orphanage).
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 7)
Ref.: Perth Cathedral Archives through the courtesy of the late Fr. Senan Moynahan, Archivist.

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