Rev John Daly
Title:
Rev
First Name:
John
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Daly
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Bracna, Co Kerry
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Ireland
Ordination Diocese:
Melbourne
Seminary:
All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Melbourne VIC
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | Mansfield | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Melbourne | North Melbourne | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Melbourne | Kyneton | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Melbourne | Dandenong | 1898 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Melbourne | Flemington | 1898 | Jan | 1899 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 125:
Daly, John, Irish
Victim of a Chill in the Confessional
The Almighty ordained that he should have only 14 years in the active ministry of The Lord, but what zeal and activity he displayed in those brief years! All Hallows Records show that he was born in Bracna, County Kerry, in May 1857, the child of Daniel and Joanna (nee Hartnett). He studied for the priesthood at Killarney Seminary and entered All Hallows in 1879. Ordination was conferred in June 1884 at the transmitting hands of Bishop Woodlock. He arrived in the Melbourne Archdiocese in October of that year to be made 'The Bush Curate' at Mansfield, assisting Fr. Patrick O'Hanlon. There followed a brief stay at North Melbourne and from there he was posted to Kyneton to assist Dean Horatio Geoghegan. With an assignment to care for the country districts away from the town, he set his hand to the building of a church at Tarradale. After a three year fruitful stay he was posted as Parish Priest to Dandenong, an insignificant country centre as compared with the mighty Dandenong spread of today. The main achievements of a zealous priest are those that receive no acclaim from the populace, except perhaps when spruikers have their say at a farewell function. And so it was with Father John, the man constantly on his visitation round. But there was 'glorious hour' in his career on 10 January 1892 when Archbishop Carr congratulated his priest and generous donors (mainly from Berwick) on the "elegant church" being opened on that day. Reward for labour came in 1898 when he was transferred to the important parish of Flemington. But the stay was destined to be short and sweet. While hearing Confessions in January of the following year he sustained a chill which led to rheumatic fever. There was no delaying the end by a shot of penicillin or an equally effective drug in St. Vincent's Hospital of that time, and so Father John passed to his reward on 12 January 1899. The age would appear to be 41, and burial took place in the vault of the Priests' Mortuary Chapel at the Carlton General Cemetery.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 6)
Information: As quoted, and the files of the Melbourne 'Advocate'.