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About Help Contact login Rev Pierre Chauvel SM Title: Rev First Name: Pierre Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Chauvel Order: SM Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1867 Place of Birth: Loire-Atlantique Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 08-May-1933 Place of Death: Port Vila, Vanuatu Country of Death: Overseas Date of Burial: 1933 Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Overseas Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 36: Chauvel, Pierre, SM, French, Visitor Born on 14.4.1867 in Nantes Diocese. Professed on 15.8.1892. Arrived in Melbourne on the 'Australien', ex Marseilles to Sydney. He gave service in Samoa and in the New Hebrides. The last CD placing is given for Ambrim Island in the N.H. Prefecture in 1907. Seemingly he then returned to France where he died on 3.5.1933 at the age of 66. (Not listed previously in Footprints) Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Appendix to 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (M.A. Thesis, Sydney, 1971). --- Fr. Michael Fitzgerald, SM and Fr. François Grossin, SM, Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province 1836-2011, 4th edition, Suva, 2011, pp 102, 295: Fr. Pierre Chauvel, d. 1933 Samoa - Vanuatu He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1867. He was professed a Marist in 1892 and in the following year, aged 26, he went to Samoa, where he worked mainly in Aleipata. Seven years later, ill health forced him to go to New Zealand for a year. In 1900 he was appointed to Vanuatu where he worked in most of the missions in spite of poor health, which forced him to go to New Caledonia in 1915 for tuberculosis treatment. He then resumed his work in Vanuatu. For the last 7 years of his life he took charge of the diocesan printery at Port Vila. He died there, aged 66.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Pierre

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Chauvel

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Date of Birth:

14-Apr-1867

Place of Birth:

Loire-Atlantique

Country of Birth:

France

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Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

08-May-1933

Place of Death:

Port Vila, Vanuatu

Country of Death:

Overseas

Date of Burial:

1933

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Overseas

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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, p 36:

Chauvel, Pierre, SM, French, Visitor
Born on 14.4.1867 in Nantes Diocese. Professed on 15.8.1892. Arrived in Melbourne on the 'Australien', ex Marseilles to Sydney. He gave service in Samoa and in the New Hebrides. The last CD placing is given for Ambrim Island in the N.H. Prefecture in 1907. Seemingly he then returned to France where he died on 3.5.1933 at the age of 66.
(Not listed previously in Footprints)
Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Appendix to 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (M.A. Thesis, Sydney, 1971).

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Fr. Michael Fitzgerald, SM and Fr. François Grossin, SM, Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province 1836-2011, 4th edition, Suva, 2011, pp 102, 295:

Fr. Pierre Chauvel, d. 1933
Samoa - Vanuatu
He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1867. He was professed a Marist in 1892 and in the following year, aged 26, he went to Samoa, where he worked mainly in Aleipata. Seven years later, ill health forced him to go to New Zealand for a year. In 1900 he was appointed to Vanuatu where he worked in most of the missions in spite of poor health, which forced him to go to New Caledonia in 1915 for tuberculosis treatment. He then resumed his work in Vanuatu. For the last 7 years of his life he took charge of the diocesan printery at Port Vila. He died there, aged 66.

Rev Pierre Chauvel SM

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