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Mary Reiby
Mary Reiby is one of the most famous early convict women in the colony of New South Wales. -
Caroline Chisholm
was born near Northampton, England, daughter of William Jones, a well-to-do farmer. -
Sisters of Mercy
Roman Catholic religious congregation founded in Dublin in 1831 by Catherine Elizabeth McAuley. -
Sisters Of Charity
The sisters performed their own domestic and farm work, made clothing for the students of nearby St. Thomas's Seminary, visited the sick, and did other religious work. In 1814 they opened Nazareth Academy. Meet extraordinary women who dared to bring gender equality and other issues to the forefront. -
christian brothers
Besides teaching in elementary, secondary, and teacher-training schools, the brothers administer and staff colleges; agricultural schools; welfare or corrective schools; technical, trade, and commercial schools; and houses of retreat. -
Fr Julian Tenison Woods
London-born Julian arrived in Tasmania in 1855, aged 23. He was ordained just two years later and appointed parish priest of Penola in rural South Australia. -
Good Samaritan Sisters
They are involved in social work, nursing, respite and residential care, education, parish work, centres of spirituality and administration. -
Establishment of the Sisters of St Joseph
The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart are a religious order of women, originally founded in South Australia in 1866, by Sister Mary MacKillop. They ran a number of children's homes in New South Wales as well as Catholic schools, throughout New South Wales. -
Mary Mackillop
Mary suffers the first of many bouts of serious illness, as the order she founded has 300 sisters working in nine dioceses in Australia and New Zealand. -
Presentation Sisters
The Presentation Sisters' mission is to help the poor and needy around the world. Historically, the Sisters focused their energies on creating and staffing schools that would educate young people, especially young ladies.