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About Help Contact login Rev Henry Woolfrey OC Title: Rev First Name: Henry Middle Names: Norbert Preferred Name: Surname: Woolfrey Order: OC Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 13-Mar-1872 Place of Death: Country of Death: Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes New Norfolk, Hobart, Tas; Sydney Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, History of the Catholic Church in Australasia, 1895, p 419: Two other smaller contingents of missionaries to the aboriginals from religious bodies set out from Europe at a later period, but as the missionaries in these cases never reached the black tribes, but were all employed by the Bishops on the ordinary mission amongst the white men, their history offers but small information in the matter of which we treat. The first small contingent came from the Cistercian Order in England. It consisted of Father Odillo Woolfrey, Father Norbert Woolfrey, and a postulant. They landed in Tasmania in 1846, and after a little intercourse with the remnant of the blacks of that island (only sixteen survived out of the race, which was a totally distinct race from the blacks of the continent of Australia, and once numbered tens of thousands: all sixteen are long since dead and the race extinct), the missionaries came to the Archbishop, in Sydney, who located them at Brisbane Water, but the Superior, Father Odillo Woolfrey, soon after died. Father Norbert Woolfrey joined the clergy engaged in the mission among the white population. The postulant, afterwards Father Johnson, was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese. Both these missionaries served the Archdiocese long and well. Both died in the year 1872.

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New Norfolk, Hobart, Tas; Sydney

Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, History of the Catholic Church in Australasia, 1895, p 419:

Two other smaller contingents of missionaries to the aboriginals from religious bodies set out from Europe at a later period, but as the missionaries in these cases never reached the black tribes, but were all employed by the Bishops on the ordinary mission amongst the white men, their history offers but small information in the matter of which we treat.

The first small contingent came from the Cistercian Order in England. It consisted of Father Odillo Woolfrey, Father Norbert Woolfrey, and a postulant. They landed in Tasmania in 1846, and after a little intercourse with the remnant of the blacks of that island (only sixteen survived out of the race, which was a totally distinct race from the blacks of the continent of Australia, and once numbered tens of thousands: all sixteen are long since dead and the race extinct), the missionaries came to the Archbishop, in Sydney, who located them at Brisbane Water, but the Superior, Father Odillo Woolfrey, soon after died. Father Norbert Woolfrey joined the clergy engaged in the mission among the white population. The postulant, afterwards Father Johnson, was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese. Both these missionaries served the Archdiocese long and well. Both died in the year 1872.

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