William Coffey | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev William Coffey Title: Rev First Name: William Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Coffey Order: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 23-Dec-1889 Place of Death: Country of Death: Ireland Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Ireland 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, pp 57-58: Coffey, William, Irish Origin and family background are unknown. One suspects he was just another of the many who were despatched here with a rasping cough, in the hope that the sunshine in the Antipodes might prolong the days, so often cut short by tuberculosis. As to education he is certainly not on the All Hallows list of students who graced its halls. A note on the file held by the writer states he was ordained in April 1878 at Goulburn by Dr. Lanigan, and may therefore have been a brother of Michael J .Coffey who was born at Toomavara in the diocese of Killaloe and the County of Tipperary. (But that is just a conjecture). There is no indication that he worked in Goulburn. Our Directory tracing reads: Liverpool (1886), Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay (1886)(1889). Rose Bay Sisters in reply to my request have stated: "He was the third priest appointed as Chaplain since foundation in 1882. A very delicate man, often too ill to say morning Mass. He couldn't sleep in the gardener's cottage which was too damp, so quarters were arranged for him in the Primary School nearby ..." The 1890 Directory has the entry: sick leave. Certainly he was present at the opening of Manly College on 23 January 1889, and sailed for Ireland on the 'Moynera' in March. Irish newspapers in the Dublin Library have recorded his death as taking place on 23 December 1889. (Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7) Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay, per Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

William

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Coffey

Order:

Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

23-Dec-1889

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

FindaGrave - Person Photo

FindaGrave - Grave Photo

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, pp 57-58:

Coffey, William, Irish
Origin and family background are unknown. One suspects he was just another of the many who were despatched here with a rasping cough, in the hope that the sunshine in the Antipodes might prolong the days, so often cut short by tuberculosis. As to education he is certainly not on the All Hallows list of students who graced its halls. A note on the file held by the writer states he was ordained in April 1878 at Goulburn by Dr. Lanigan, and may therefore have been a brother of Michael J .Coffey who was born at Toomavara in the diocese of Killaloe and the County of Tipperary. (But that is just a conjecture). There is no indication that he worked in Goulburn. Our Directory tracing reads: Liverpool (1886), Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay (1886)(1889). Rose Bay Sisters in reply to my request have stated: "He was the third priest appointed as Chaplain since foundation in 1882. A very delicate man, often too ill to say morning Mass. He couldn't sleep in the gardener's cottage which was too damp, so quarters were arranged for him in the Primary School nearby ..." The 1890 Directory has the entry: sick leave. Certainly he was present at the opening of Manly College on 23 January 1889, and sailed for Ireland on the 'Moynera' in March. Irish newspapers in the Dublin Library have recorded his death as taking place on 23 December 1889.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay, per Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay.

Rev William Coffey

Biographical Notes