Rev John McCaughey
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Rev
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John
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McCaughey
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Ireland
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Dublin, Co Dublin
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Ireland
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Glasnevin, Dublin
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Ireland
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Biographical Notes
Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1914/05301/4474179.pdf: Superintendent Registrar's District N. Dublin, Registrar's District the City, No.1, West. 1917. Deaths Registered in the District of the City, No.1, West in the Union of N. Dublin in the City of Dublin. No. 194: On 21 February 1917 at 33 Eccles St, death of John McCaughey, Carmelite Monastery, Gayfield, male, bachelor, 74 years, Roman Catholic Clergyman; of asphyxia, broncho-pneumonia, certified; informant: Brigid Fowler, present at death, of 33 Eccles St, 22 February 1917.
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The church in New Zealand. Historical Notes, New Zealand Tablet, Dunedin, 31 May 1917, p 26, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT19170531.2.34:
As will be seen by a reference to the Irish News Column in last week’s issue of the Tablet, the death is announced in Ireland at the advanced age of 75 years of the Rev. Father J. McCaughey. He will be remembered by those of the old Catholic community of the Lower and Upper Hutt who still survive as being for a time in the late 'seventies or early 'eighties in charge of that Mission. Father McCaughey later did duty at Ross and elsewhere in the Westland portion of what was then the diocese of Wellington, which embraced all the territory subsequently merged into a new diocese with Christchurch as its episcopal centre. A bright, spirited young Irishman, fresh from college and seminary, his apparently frail and delicate constitution did not lead one to predict such a lengthy life as has been enjoyed by the recently deceased priest. In those days, the present writer, then a small boy, was his server at Mass, and on occasions his companion in some thrilling driving experiences. As a gift from Mr. Frank Mountain, an "identity" of the time, and a generous benefactor to the priests, Father McCaughey became the happy possessor of a pair of Shetland ponies of startling activity and a light, four-wheeled buggy. With less skill than fear, some perilous journeys were essayed, and by special providence safely accomplished, regardless, however, of all established rules of the highway, the ponies meanwhile having matters pretty well their own way. On his return to Ireland he joined the Carmelite community, and was professed at Loughrea Abbey in 1884, and ministered at Loughrea, Dublin, and Donnybrook. In the death of Father McCaughey another interesting link with the good old missionary days in New Zealand is severed, but the memories associated with the Fathers who ministered to the sparse population with such zeal and devotion amid privations and discomforts in by-gone days will endure.