Rev Joseph Clery SJ
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Joseph
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Clery
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SJ
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
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| Sydney | North Sydney | May | 1880 | 1882 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Government Gazette, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 1 July 1882, p 27, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161925745:
Marriages.— [...] the Rev. Joseph Clery, S.J., St. Leonards; [...] have been registered for the celebration of marriages.
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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, pp 50-51:
Clery, Joseph, SJ, Irish, Left Order
Departure From Jesuit Ranks
The Jesuits came to Sydney to take over the North Shore Mission from Dean John Kenny in April 1878. Previous foundations had been made in Seven Hills and Melbourne, and Fathers Dalton and Kennedy were the Sydney initiators who came from Melbourne at the invitation of Archbishop Vaughan. All of this is well recounted in the history of St. Mary's Parish, North Sydney, by Fr. Henry Johnston SJ. in 'A Seed That Grew'. For the first years there was no clear delineation between the pastoral work of attending to an extensive parish and teaching duties at St. Kilda House (the first teaching assignment). So whether Joseph Clery was a teacher or a parish assistant or both when he came in May 1880 is not clear. His stay was fairly short, being recalled to Ireland in 1882, compelled to part company with the parish founder, Fr. James Kennedy, and the preacher with "strange Pentecostal powers", Fr. William Kelly. Apart from recording that Clery later left the Jesuits, and that his birthday is recorded (17 February 1837), there is naught to be said.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 6)