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About Help Contact login Rev Thomas O'Connor Title: Rev First Name: Thomas Middle Names: F. Preferred Name: Surname: O'Connor Order: Date of Birth: 1914 Place of Birth: Tralee, Co Kerry Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Jun - 1938 Place of Ordination: Dublin Country of Ordination: Ireland Ordination Diocese: Rockhampton Seminary: All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland Date of Death: 08-Mar-1939 Place of Death: Stillorgan, Dublin Country of Death: Ireland Date of Burial: Mar - 1939 Place of Burial: All Hallows, Dublin Country of Burial: Ireland Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/269563210 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1939/04752/4272945.pdf: Superintendent Registrar's District Rathdown, Registrar's District Stillorgan. 1939. Deaths Registered in the District of Stillorgan in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Rathdown in the County of Dublin. No. 174: On 8 March 1939 at Lourdes Hospital, Kill O'Grange, death of Rev Thomas O'Connor from 4 Rea[?] St, Tralee, Co Kerry, male, single, 25 years, Catholic Priest; of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, certified; informant: Wm. J. Wills, occupier, Lourdes Hospital, Kill O'Grange, 11 March 1939. --- Requiescat in Pace. The Rev. Father Thomas O'Connor, Catholic Leader, Brisbane, 6 April 1939, p 15: At All Hallows' College, Dublin, in June, 1938, the Rev. Father Thomas O'Connor was ordained a priest for the diocese of Rockhampton (states The Review). He was to have arrived in Rockhampton last December, but shortly before the time arranged for his departure from his native land, he took ill. It was an illness from which he did not recover. With great patience and resignation, he suffered until his Divine Master accepted the sacrifice of the young priest's life. Father O'Connor died on March 10. In St. Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton, on Tuesday, March 22, the Solemn Office for the Dead was chanted for the repose of his soul, followed by a Requiem Mass. The Very Rev. Father Dolan, Adm., was the celebrant of the Mass; the Rev. Fathers T. Page and M. O'Connell were deacon and sub-deacon respectively. The Rev. Father M. Sheeran was master of ceremonies and the Rev. Fathers R. Gibbs and D. Keneally were the chanters. In the sanctuary also were the Very Rev. Deans J. Rowan and P. J. O'Keeffe, the Rev. Fathers E. J. Hayes and A. O'Dwyer. His Lordship the Bishop, who presided, requested the prayers of the people for Father O'Connor, who being ordained for the diocese, was one of their own. They had a duty in charity to pray for him and in turn they could rest assured that he would not forget them. It was sad to see a young priest taken from them, one on whose hands the ordination oils were hardly dried. Yet God's Holy will be done in this as in all things. The Bishop extended the sympathy of all to the sorrowing relatives and to the professors and students at All Hallows' College.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Thomas

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

O'Connor

Order:

Date of Birth:

1914

Place of Birth:

Tralee, Co Kerry

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Jun - 1938

Place of Ordination:

Dublin

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Rockhampton

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death:

08-Mar-1939

Place of Death:

Stillorgan, Dublin

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

Mar - 1939

Place of Burial:

All Hallows, Dublin

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/269563210

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Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1939/04752/4272945.pdf: Superintendent Registrar's District Rathdown, Registrar's District Stillorgan. 1939. Deaths Registered in the District of Stillorgan in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Rathdown in the County of Dublin. No. 174: On 8 March 1939 at Lourdes Hospital, Kill O'Grange, death of Rev Thomas O'Connor from 4 Rea[?] St, Tralee, Co Kerry, male, single, 25 years, Catholic Priest; of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, certified; informant: Wm. J. Wills, occupier, Lourdes Hospital, Kill O'Grange, 11 March 1939.

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Requiescat in Pace. The Rev. Father Thomas O'Connor, Catholic Leader, Brisbane, 6 April 1939, p 15:

At All Hallows' College, Dublin, in June, 1938, the Rev. Father Thomas O'Connor was ordained a priest for the diocese of Rockhampton (states The Review). He was to have arrived in Rockhampton last December, but shortly before the time arranged for his departure from his native land, he took ill. It was an illness from which he did not recover. With great patience and resignation, he suffered until his Divine Master accepted the sacrifice of the young priest's life. Father O'Connor died on March 10.

In St. Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton, on Tuesday, March 22, the Solemn Office for the Dead was chanted for the repose of his soul, followed by a Requiem Mass. The Very Rev. Father Dolan, Adm., was the celebrant of the Mass; the Rev. Fathers T. Page and M. O'Connell were deacon and sub-deacon respectively. The Rev. Father M. Sheeran was master of ceremonies and the Rev. Fathers R. Gibbs and D. Keneally were the chanters. In the sanctuary also were the Very Rev. Deans J. Rowan and P. J. O'Keeffe, the Rev. Fathers E. J. Hayes and A. O'Dwyer.

His Lordship the Bishop, who presided, requested the prayers of the people for Father O'Connor, who being ordained for the diocese, was one of their own. They had a duty in charity to pray for him and in turn they could rest assured that he would not forget them. It was sad to see a young priest taken from them, one on whose hands the ordination oils were hardly dried. Yet God's Holy will be done in this as in all things. The Bishop extended the sympathy of all to the sorrowing relatives and to the professors and students at All Hallows' College.

Rev Thomas O'Connor

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