Obituary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 26, 5 July 1923, Page 45

Obituary

MR. DANIEL O’BRIEN, ADDISON’S FLAT. tv +° n . ®® turda - v » the 9th Mt., there passed away at the District Hospital, one of Westport’s most respected identities 111 the person of Mr. Daniel O’Brien (writes a correspondent). Deceased was born at Killaloe, Ireland in he year 1849, and came to New Zealand 47 years ago, making his home at Addison’s Flat. During life he gave evidence of his strong Faith by devotedness to his religions .. 1 S ,‘ , , le ” US ®J* d was drawing near he was constantly < ended by Rev. Father Sweeney, who gave him all the consolations of Holy Church, while the Sisters of the local convent visited him', frequently. He was predeceased by bis wife twenty-three year ago, and his youngest daughter -—(Katie), Mrs. Keogh-Peters two years back. Two daughters—Miss Maggie O’Brien (Westport) and Mrs. McNamara (Cambridge) are the surviving members of his family, to whom ,s extended the deep sympathy of the community. On Monday morning (June 11) Requiem Mass 1 i the repose of his soul was celebrated at St. Oanice’s mrch, and later Ins remains "’ere laid to rest beside his "ires in the Addison’s Cemetery.—R.l.R. MRS SARAH JANE McGILLIGAN, CHRISTCHURCH On June 3 a very early settler anti an old and regular a tendant at the Catholic Cathedral in Barbadoes Street paSSed «' vay ’ in the person of Mrs. Sarah Jane McGill, widow of the late James McGilligau (" rites a correspondtn). The deceased was a native of the North of Ireland, and the eldest daughter of the late Ta iffe „TT 1 %? ~d ' firSt “»*'« of the late Count hm’v Gof Austria. She and her family arrived in Cantermiy from the land of her birth in the very early days of the l.ov nee, and soon settled down in Wilson's Road Linwood, where she had resided up to the time of her demise. Tins part of the city was then nearly in its primeval state, and thus the late Mrs. Gilligan had "•itnessed t the city’s growth in this section until it has ached its present large extent and importance. Shortly after her arrival in this new land she suffered the loss'of her husband, by whose early death she was left, when finite a young woman a widow 'and the ■ mother of six' young children four girls and two hoys. She was, how over, a woman of courage, sense, and niety, and by her o"" exertions, brought up her family, some of whom married and comfortably x settled near her. The deceased tome a part in all parochial and charitable matters and as she had been present almost from the time of the first establishment of the Church in Barbadoes Street * her mind was well stored with many interesting , reminiscences of the pioneer days of what is now the large and snlendid Cathedral parish The late Mrs. McGilligan, who was widely known and respected, was attended during her last illness by Lev. Father Healy, at whose hands she received all the consoling rites of Holy Church. She was interred in thb public cemetery at Bromley, Rev. Father Bonetto officiating at the graveside.—R.Lß.