Fr Frank Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants: Recalling the Spirit of the Deceased Priests of the Diocese of Port Augusta and Port Pirie 1888-2008, 2008:
Parsch, Alois, SJ

Born: 5/10/1843 in Austria.
He was a diocesan priest before entering the Jesuits at age 29.
Came to SA from Hamburg arriving in June, 1882. From 1889-1900 he was stationed at Georgetown and served Gladstone; Laura; Beetaloo; Narridy; Redhill and Mondoora. He later spent a period at Sevenhill. In 1903 he went to Norwood until his death.
Died: 8/11/1910 in Adelaide. Aged 67.
A small silver box suitably inscribed was presented to him by the children of Redhill. It was last seen in the monastery at Sevenhill.
For the story of 'the box' see the Diocesan History Centre, Peterborough.

(Reproduced with the approval of Sister Mary Cresp RSM)

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Parsch, Alois

Pastor; born Brunzejf, Moravia, 5 October 1843; died Adelaide, 8 November 1910, aged 67.

Alois Parsch entered the Society, aged 29, as a diocesan priest, 21 September 1872, at the noviciate at Tyrnau. He studied philosophy at Posen, 1875, and theology at Innsbruck, 1876-77 before teaching and prefecting at the Kalksburg College, 1878-1881.

He left Hamburg on 6 April 1882, arrived in Adelaide on 11 June, and at Sevenhill on 19 June 1882. From 1889-90 he was stationed at Georgetown, and was a missionary in the districts of Gladstone, Laura, Beetaloo, Narridy, Redhill, and Mundoora. For the following two years he worked at Georgetown and then ministered in the Sevenhill area until 1903 when he went to Norwood until his death.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)