Rev Gilbert Buisson MSC

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Gilbert

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Buisson

Order:

MSC

Date of Birth:

31-Jul-1862

Place of Birth:

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

12-Jul-1885

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

31-Oct-1927

Place of Death:

Narellan NSW

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1926

Place of Burial:

Randwick, reinterred 1947: Douglas Park NSW

Country of Burial:

Australia

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
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End Year
Source
Lismore BowravilleLinane Vol 1
Hobart Campbell TownLinane Vol 1
Sydney NarellanChaplain, Good Samaritan SistersLinane Vol 1
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Biographical Notes

Deaths, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 1927, p 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16415437:

Buisson.—October 31, 1927, at Mater Dei Orphanage, Narellan, Rev. Father Gilbert Buisson, M.S.C., aged 65 years. Requiescat in pace.

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 37:

Buisson, Gilbert, MSC, French
Friend of the Thursday Island Pearlers
b. 31.7.1862; professed 1880; studied philosophy and theology in Rome; ord. 12.7.'85. Arr. in B.N.G.(Papua) in Oct. '88. Served under Bp. Navarre as P.P. of Thurs. Is. On returning to Syd. he did pastoral work in the Lismore Dioc. (Bowraville CD '06) and in Tas., eventually becoming Chaplain to the Sisters of the Good Samaritan at Narellan, NSW. He was an accomplished scholar in sacred and profane literature and wrote some of his letters in Latin hexameters. d. in his sleep at Narellan on 31.10.1926; age 64. Burial: first at Randwick. Remains transferred to Douglas Park in June 1947.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 9)
Ref.: MSC Archives, Canberra per Fr. J. McMahon MSC.