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  • 68

    June 19, 2018
    11 April 1881. Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor co-founder, Rev. Father Edward (Ted) McGrath, is b
  • Burns family lockets

    June 19, 2018
    Co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward McGrath msc, became close friends with the Burns family…
  • Father Edward Gell

    June 19, 2018
    12 January 1915. Most Rev. Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney, meets with Rev. Father Edward Gell (pictured), the parish priest…
  • 88

    June 19, 2018
    28 October 1914. Mrs Ada Holman, wife of the NSW Premier, opens a four-day ‘garden fete on a large and…
  • 110

    June 19, 2018
    “The cause of poverty is nothing to do with you; you don’t ask questions you help the poor.”
  • 67

    June 19, 2018
    10 April 1920. Knowing that her health is fading, Eileen O’Connor commissions a portrait of hersel
  • Captain Rev Father Edward McGrath

    June 19, 2018
    16 June 1921. The Catholic Press reports that co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, Rev. Father Edward McGrath…
  • Eileen's vault

    June 19, 2018
    10 January 2018. Year after year, the faithful have quietly come to Our Lady’s Home each year to pray at…
  • 85

    June 19, 2018
    27 October 1911. Mrs Annie O’Connor and her four children move from ‘St Elmo’ in Neptune St, Coogee, to the…
  • 63

    June 19, 2018
    Charles and Annie O'Connor have four children: Eileen, Mary, Charles and Francis. In 1904, the famil