Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History


J.J. Therry: Journal Entries. June 1821-March 1822

[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives Ms copy?]

June 1821:

June 1824:

June 1830:

Saturday 31: Sydney. Heard confessions at Dempsey's, went to Parramatta.

July 1821

Sunday 1: Mass at Parra[matta] pro Defunctis [for the dead] and at Sydney pro omnibus [for all the faithful].

Monday 2: Sydney. Parramatta. Attend 2 men in the hospital. Message to Dr. Harris.

Tuesday 3: Parramatta. Attended 1 man in hospital, visited Factory. Went to Liverpool.

Wednesday 4: Liverpool, Baptised a black child, Peter, of the five Islands.

Went to Burnheim, Curran etc to Liverpool and thence at 12 o'clock to Parramatta [Entered]

Thursday 5: visit Parramatta at 10 o'clock. J Kennedy.

Baptised Julia, a black child. Visited the Hospital.

Heard of the death of Hynes and widow, who were attended.

Went to Sydney.

Friday 6: Mass at Sydney pro subscription list Parramatta.

Attended meeting. Spoke to Wardell. Visited and administered to Dr. Martin's Hospital.

Saturday 7: Confessions at Dempsey's [Entered]

 

March 1822

Wednesday: Appin. Bunbury's, Curran at Liverpool

Thursday: Liverpool and Parramatta. Assisted at Burns

Friday 15: Parramatta and Sydney

Saturday 16: Heard confessions. Sydney

Sunday 17: Celebrated at Penitentiary pro omnibus Court House

pro omnibus presented *     *

Monday 18: Heard confessions 3 persons sentenced to death. Went Parramatta then to Breakfast Creek (horse fell under [me] in Richmond Road)

Tuesday 19: Celebrated at Carneys where S.J. Breakfast Creek heard confessions. Went to Windsor, visited the hospital.

Wednesday 20: Celebrated in honor of Saint Patrick at Windsor: Visited Hospital. Went to Pitt town, there 6 Catholics baptised.

John and Jane of *     Nazliere and 5- *

had no ink

Thursday 18: At Nattai heard confessions of old man at Gron's - Pitt Town, Windsor, anointed a man in hospital. Came to Parramatta then to Sydney with the jail at midnight

Deaths 1822

: Patrick Cullen

: Young man, painter in Castlereagh St

: A child in the Rocks

: Mr Cassidy

: Mr *Bronague* Fitzgerald 2 Rocks

: An old man at Windsor Hospital

[Note: The most extensive collection of transcriptions of Fr Therry's correspondence remains Eris O'Brien's The Foundation of Catholicism in Australia; life and letters of Archpriest John Joseph Therry, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1922]

 


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