Rev John Cunningham

Title:

Rev

First Name:

John

Middle Names:

William

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Cunningham

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Date of Ordination:

Dec - 1865

Place of Ordination:

Melbourne VIC

Country of Ordination:

Australia

Ordination Diocese:

Sydney

Seminary:

St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Sydney Parramatta18661868Linane Vol 2
Sydney Darlinghurst1872Linane Vol 2
Sydney Mount Carmel/WaterlooFeb1878Linane Vol 2
Sydney CamdenFeb1878Evening News, 13 February 1878; Linane Vol 2
Sydney ShoalhavenLinane Vol 2
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Biographical Notes

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. J. Cunninghame, Mount Carmel to Camden; [...]

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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, pp 113-114:

Cunningham, John William, Irish
A Pioneer in Mount Carmel, Waterloo Parish
In Footprints Vol. 3, No. 2, Father Keaney in an account of 'Melbourne's First Seminary' lists John Cunningham as one of six who had completed priestly studies before being ordained in Melbourne. This event took place at the hands of Bishop Goold in December 1865. John was co-opted for the Dublin Diocese and entered Maynooth as a rhetorician in August 1855. Circumstances of delay in completing studies and his being ordained for Sydney are unclear. First appointment was to Parramatta, 1866-8. Then to Darlinghurst until 1872. Probably he was the first resident in what was to become a flourishing parish, Mount Carmel, Waterloo, where he remained until 1878. He built a small presbytery in 1874 which was to become later a home for the Sisters of Mercy. A school was also built, the stone being laid on 29 January 1876. The 1878 and 1879 lists place him at Camden, and a note on the file states that he was transferred from there to Shoalhaven (Nowra) where he built a presbytery. The trail ends in the mid 80's and it's presumed that he returned to the Diocese of Dublin.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 4)