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4 April 2004
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Ellen Geary’s journey from ‘Irish’ town of Tumut
PIONEER SCHOOL: The Church of St Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Tumut. It was here, in the original church building, that the Mercy Sisters taught Ellen Geary
Ellen Geary who was born in Tumut in August 1871, was the seventh of eight children of Irish immigrants Johanna and Patrick Geary.
Johanna (Mulvihill), born in County Kerry, and Patrick, born in County Limerick, had married in 1857 in Tumut, which was then home to “large numbers of Irish Catholics”.
Ellen spent her early years living a carefree existence with her family. She was educated by the Sisters of Mercy, who had arrived in Tumut in 1882.
She was 20 when she gave herself as a Sister of Mercy at Monte Sant’ Angelo, North Sydney.
Her early career was spent teaching in primary schools in what we know as the ‘inner’ suburbs of Sydney, including Sts Peter and Paul, Tempe; St Vincent’s, Redfern; and, most likely, St Patrick’s, Church Hill.
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