Rev Edmund Walsh

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Edmund

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Walsh

Order:

Date of Birth:

1823

Place of Birth:

Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

St John's College, Waterford, Ireland

Date of Death:

30-Jul-1894

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1894

Place of Burial:

Rookwood NSW

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229735765

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Biographical Notes

Shipping Intelligence. Arrivals, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 5 March 1853, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article685214:

March 2.—Thomas Chadwick, barque, 461 tons, Captain Richardson, from the Downs 4th November. Passengers—[...]Very Rev. Dr. Gregory, Rev. Dr. Grant and servant, Rev. Messrs. Murphy, McCarthy, Welsh, Phelan, Tworney, Rockliff, [...]

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Roman Catholic Clerical Changes, Evening News, Sydney, 13 February 1878, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107944745:

The following changes have recently been made:—[...] Rev. G. Walsh, Appin and Picton to Araluen.

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Walsh, Edmund

Born Tinnokilly Ahenny, Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, 1823. Details of education unknown. Studied at St John's College, Waterford. Date and place of ordination unknown. Arrived in Sydney on 2 March 1853. He was assistant to Fr Tim McCarthy in Armidale from January 1855 to late 1855. He then returned to Sydney and was based in Sydney and number of other locations. He died at Granville on 30 July 1894, and is buried at Rookwood. A brother, Martin Walsh, was at one time a priest of the Sydney Archdiocese, but was living in Rome at the time of Edmund's death.
(Sources: Farrell, Foley, FJ 4 Aug 1894 p 15, MDHC A-Z W7).

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)