Rev John O'Connell
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O'Connell
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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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| Bathurst | Bathurst | Jul | 1866 | Freeman's Journal, 21 July 1866 | |||||
| Brisbane | Maryborough | Jul | 1867 | Maryborough Chronicle, 2 July 1867 |
Biographical Notes
Bathurst diocese, NSW
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Summary for Some, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 21 July 1866, p 463, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115452497:
The Rev. J. O'Connell has lately been appointed to the mission of Bathurst in the western district.
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Registered Clergyman, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 25 August 1866, p 538, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115452602:
The Rev. John O'Connell, lately appointed to the parish of Bathurst, has been registered as an officiating minister for the celebration of marriages.
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Bathurst, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 10 November 1866, p 706, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115451513:
(From our own Correspondent.) His Lordship Dr. Quinn left here on Saturday morning for the metropolis, on urgent business. Before his departure, however, he made the following appointments:—Father O'Connell, senior priest at the Cathedral; assisted by the Rev. J.P. Byrne; [...] The rev. gentlemen above mentioned will leave during the week for their respective destinations. [...]
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Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 2 July 1867, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148327283:
It will be seen from our advertising columns that immediate steps are about to be taken by the Catholics of the town and district for the erection of a new church in Maryborough. To assist the Rev. Father Tissot during the progress of the work, in collecting funds, and other matters, the Rev. John O'Connell has arrived from Sydney, he having had large experience in this kind of business, and will stay here until the church is erected.
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Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 31 July 1867, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148329544:
A meeting of the members of the Catholic Church was held in the temporary church on Sunday last, for the purpose of considering and adopting the plan of a new church, and for devising the best means of raising funds for the erecting thereof. The Rev. Father Tissott was elected to the chair, and the Rev. Father O'Connell to the vice-chair. A plan gratuitously supplied by Mr. C. Tiffin, Colonial Architect, through the courtesy of Mr. R. B. Sheridan, was submitted to the meeting, and, after some discussion of a conversational kind, adopted, the next resolution, viz., "that the intended new church be built of brick and stone foundation" having been considered was carried, and the Rev. Father O'Connell then rose and proposed the third resolution, that the following gentlemen, namely, Rev. Paul E. Tissott, Rev. J. O'Connell, and Messrs. [...], with power to add to their number be appointed a collecting committee, that the subscriptions obtained through the agency of the said committee be published from the altar monthly, and that this system be kept in operation till the new church is completed. [...]