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About Help Contact login Patrick Claffey SM Title: First Name: Patrick Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Claffey Order: SM Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 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 Evening Post, Wellington, 22 May 1876, p 2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18760522.2.11: At the Roman Catholic churches of this city yesterday, after the celebration of high mass, the "Te Deum" was sung in honor of the safe arrival in the s.s. Easby, on last Monday, of three Roman Catholic clergymen, the Revs. Fathers Claffey, Carrigan, and Halbwachs, and four Christian brothers. The Rev. Father Halbwachs preached in the morning at St. Mary's Church, and in the evening at the Cathedral, both being very eloquent sermons. --- Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 42: Claffey, Patrick, SM, French, Visitor, Left Order Again the information is meagre. He came from the Diocese of Armagh, and sailed from London for New Zealand on 29 January 1876, passing through Sydney on his way. The name is not found on the 1886 list of priests, and we can only take the assurance of Marist Historian, Father Hosie, that "he left the Order". (Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4)

Patrick Claffey SM

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Evening Post, Wellington, 22 May 1876, p 2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18760522.2.11:

At the Roman Catholic churches of this city yesterday, after the celebration of high mass, the "Te Deum" was sung in honor of the safe arrival in the s.s. Easby, on last Monday, of three Roman Catholic clergymen, the Revs. Fathers Claffey, Carrigan, and Halbwachs, and four Christian brothers. The Rev. Father Halbwachs preached in the morning at St. Mary's Church, and in the evening at the Cathedral, both being very eloquent sermons.

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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 42:

Claffey, Patrick, SM, French, Visitor, Left Order
Again the information is meagre. He came from the Diocese of Armagh, and sailed from London for New Zealand on 29 January 1876, passing through Sydney on his way. The name is not found on the 1886 list of priests, and we can only take the assurance of Marist Historian, Father Hosie, that "he left the Order".
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4)