Rev William Corcoran CSSp

Title:

Rev

First Name:

William

Middle Names:

Henry

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Corcoran

Order:

CSSp

Date of Birth:

3 - 1865

Place of Birth:

Ballinasloe, Co Galway

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

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Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

18-Dec-1957

Place of Death:

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Auckland Puhoi19001905Linane Vol 2
Dunedin South Dunedin19061907Linane Vol 2
Auckland Ngaruawahia1907Linane Vol 2
Geraldton Mount Magnet1909Linane Vol 2
Geraldton Northampton1910Linane Vol 2
Dunedin Dunedin19121915Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Irish birth record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/cert_amends/cert_1865/2306253a.pdf: "Births Registered in the District of Ballinasloe in the Union of Ballinasloe in the County of Galway. No. 285. On 3 October 1865 at Dunlo St, B'sloe, birth of William Henry, male, father William Corcoran of Dunlo St, grocer, mother Maria Anne Corcoran formerly Burke; informant: Wm. Corcoran, father, of Dunlo St, Ballinasloe; 30 October 1865; Patrick Horne, 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 86:

Corcoran, William Henry, Irish, Left Order?
Of Whom Not Much Is Known
Date and place of birth are given as 3 October 1865 at Ballinasloe in County Galway. The father's name was William and a question mark accompanies the mother's name as Marianne Banks. If we could assume that Banks was meant to read Burke, and that his parents had moved from Tipperary to Galway it could be inferred that he was a brother of Thomas Vincent Corcoran OSA. What is certain is that he was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, by the Holy Ghost Fathers and after joining their ranks was professed in 1896. Ordination followed, and for some reason he became secularised in 1899. A note before me suggests that he came to Tasmania in 1900, but this appears dubious. Certainly he was in Puhoi in the Dunedin Diocese in 1900 remaining until 1905 - the longest stay in any one place. The Directory tracings then suggest a man constantly on the move or being moved: South Dunedin (1906)(1907); Ngaruawahia (Auckland Diocese) (1907); Mount Magnet (Geraldton Diocese)(1909); Northampton (ditto)(1910); then back to Dunedin (1912)(1915). According to Fr. John Ryan CSSp, Blackrock College, Dublin, he died that year in England. But this seems contradicted by the Dunedin Necrology of Priests drawn up by Fr Peter Mee, Archivist and Chancellor. In that document the year of death is assigned as 1957 (18 December). If that information is correct, the age at death was a fulsome 92. So the present writer rejoices in not attempting to trace movements between 1915 and 1957.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 11)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay, per Fr John Ryan, Blackrock College and Fr Peter Mee, Dunedin.

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ANZCC note: Possible grave: Fr William Corcoran, died 8 December 1957, aged 83; buried at Bansha, Co Tipperary, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/241216207. There is no Irish death record for this date, so this person may have died in England.

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Possible Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1958/04382/4138779.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Tipperary, Registrar's District Bansha. 1958. Deaths Registered in the District of Bansha in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Tipperary in the County of Tipperary. No. 198. On 18 December 1957 at Ballycarron, Golden, death of Rev. William Corcoran, male, bachelor, 82 years, priest; cause of death: cerebral haemorrhage, certified; informant: Harry Moloney, present at death, of Ballycarron; 23 January 1958; James Russell, Registrar."