Rev Alfred Deniau SM

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Rev

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Alfred

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Deniau

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SM

Date of Birth:

18-Nov-1836

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Chartres

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France

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Date of Death:

08-Apr-1907

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Vanuatu

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Overseas

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Sydney SydneyVisitor1865Linane Vol 2
Sydney Hunters Hill1899Linane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 138:

Deniau, Alfred, SM, French
A Marist of Wide Experience
Marist historian Fr. John Hosie, again comes to the rescue in supplying basic details in respect to Alfred Deniau's career. He was born on 18 November 1836 in the Chartres Diocese and made his Marist profession on 24 September 1861. In 1865 he passed through Sydney on his way to the New Hebrides Vicariate to take up his missionary duties. Fifteen years later we find him in the Prefecture Apostolic of Fiji (1881 Directory), being stationed at Wairiki. Shipping records in Melbourne (now held at Laverton) indicate that he was returning from Marseilles to Noumea on the 'Caledonien' on 26 December 1886. After leaving Waikiri he served at Noumea (1892 Directory), Kandavu Island, Fiji, (1898 Directory). This was followed by a brief stay at Hunters Hill, Sydney, the following year. Malo Island was his station in 1903, and according to the 1906-7 Directories he moved on to Port Sandwich in the New Hebrides Vicariate. The death date is recorded as 8 April 1907 and there is a query on the file as to whether or not this occurred in Sydney. Anyhow the age was 70.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 8)

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Fr. Michael Fitzgerald, SM and Fr. François Grossin, SM, Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province 1836-2011, 4th edition, Suva, 2011, pp 77, 296:

Fr. Alfred Deniau, d. 1907
Fiji - Vanuatu
Born in Eure-et-Loir, France in 1836. He was professed a Marist in 1861. After ordination he went to Oceania arriving in Fiji in 1865, at the age of 29. He was sent to begin the Mission station at Verata on Viti Levu. He began a catechist school there. When he moved to Wairiki on Taveuni, many of his catechists went with him and he continued instructing catechists who then went out throughout Fiji. After 10 years at Wairiki, he went to Vanuatu Mission where he worked in Santo and Malo. After 5 years in Vanuatu, he returned to Fiji journeying out from Loreto on Ovalau as far as the Yasawa. After a few years in France he returned to Vanuatu, and after moving from place to place, he died at Lamap at the age of 71.