1805 - 1894
Catherine Coffey
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1804
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| Birthplace |
County Kerry, Ireland
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| Died |
31st August, 1894
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| Place of Death |
Creswick, Victoria
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| Occupation Text |
Catechist, School teacher
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Catherine Brosnaham Coffey (1805 – 31 August 1894) was an Irish-born Australian pioneer in the Port Phillip District who was the first Catholic school teacher in Melbourne and the first sacristan of the first Catholic church in Victoria, St Francis. She taught catechism classes to children in colonial Melbourne prior to the arrival of the colony's first Catholic priest in 1839. Coffey’s contribution to Catholic education was celebrated in a St Patrick’s Day pageant at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1930 and she was singled out by Archbishop Justin Simonds in 1939 in a requiem for pioneers as “an outstanding Catholic personality”.
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