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