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Rev Henri Chetail MSC

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Henri

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Chetail

Order:

MSC

Date of Birth:

17-Jul-1859

Place of Birth:

Mars, Lyons

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

29-Mar-1884

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

France

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

16-Mar-1904

Place of Death:

Campbell Town TAS

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1904

Place of Burial:

St Michael's, Campbell Town TAS

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/221104736

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Sydney BotanyParish Priest18941903Linane Vol 2
Hobart Campbell Town1903Mar1904Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 37:

Chetail, Henry, MSC, French
Pastor of Botany Bay for Ten Years

The response from Religious Orders in registering this list of names has been generous - and no Order has been more generous in providing help than the Sacred Heart Order. Fathers William McCormack, John McMahon and Ted Lambert have been the main helpers. One of the above three has sent along this summary of the life of Father Henry Chetail: Born at Mars in the Diocese of Lyons on 17 July 1859. Professed 15 February 1878. Ordained 29 March 1884. Apparently he did not come to Australia until 1894 - no mention being found in the Directories of the late 80s and early 90s. He was Parish Priest of Botany, Sydney, from 1894 to 1904. If not the first he must have been one of the first MSCs to go to the Hobart Mission. In his book 'Planting a Faith in Hobart', author Father W.T. Southerwood writes: "The M.S.C. saga in Tasmania stretches back to the turn of the century. The priests of the Sacred Heart came to work in the vast parish of Campbell Town in 1903...Father Henry Chetail became a legendary figure. He made a lasting impact on scores of isolated Catholic families. He is buried in the Churchyard Cemetery at Campbell Town". Perhaps it was in 1903 that Chetail went there, and not in 1904 as inferred above. Death date is recorded as 16 March 1904.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4)
Ref.: MSC Archives, Canberra, and Fr. W.T. Southerwood, Archivist, Hobart Archdiocese.

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