Rev James Casey
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Rev
First Name:
James
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Surname:
Casey
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Scotland
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Place of Death:
Bathurst NSW
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Australia
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Bathurst NSW
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Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bathurst | Rockley | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Bathurst | Dubbo | 1876 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Bathurst | Bathurst | Teacher, St Stanislaus' Colllege | Mar | 1881 | Aug | 1881 | Linane Vol 2; Sydney Daily Telegraph | ||
| Bathurst | Mudgee | Freeman's Journal, 6 August 1881 |
Biographical Notes
New South Wales, Sydney Daily Telegraph, 5 August 1881, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238308184:
Bathurst, Thursday.
The funeral of the Rev. Father Casey, which took place this morning, was very largely attended. The deceased, who came from Rockley about four months ago to act as one of the professors at St. Charles' College, was much esteemed in the community. He died on Tuesday evening after bursting a blood vessel during a severe fit of coughing.
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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 30:
Casey, James, Scotch
Saintly Man of Aesthetic Tastes
James was born in Edinburgh - but beyond that fact we have no information about his background and education. He appears on the passenger list of the 'John Dickie' which arrived in Melbourne on 10 December 1875. He went as a reliever to Rockley for a few months, where he commenced a Presbytery for the parish that had been separated from Bathurst in 1870 under Father Patrick Davern. Early in 1876 he was transferred to Dubbo, and the introduction of the Josephite nuns in that centre would seem to be to his credit. After service in Dubbo he appears to have been enlisted as a Professor for St. Stanislaus College, Bathurst. Described in the history St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst by Father Mark Hall C.M. as "a man of delicate health, saintly, and a man of aesthetic tastes", we can add very little else about him. He died suddenly on 2 August 1881 , and is buried in the Mortuary Chapel at Bathurst.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 3)