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? The following children were to James and Catherine:Hi again Peter
If you wanted more information on Catherine who became Mother Mary Imelda at Lochinvar, I'm sure whoever is the current archivist there would be able to help.
Are you in Australia? The phone number of the Congregational Office at Lochinvar is
(02) 4930 9650.
When I read your post initially I wondered why the surname was familiar to me. Now I know - I went to school at Lochinvar so must have seen or been told about Mother Mary Imelda at some time
But she was a bit before my time!
Dawn M
Yes I visited the Lochinvar site and read the Archive report.
She is buried in the nuns (sisters) area SW of the Church on the opposite side as the School.
JAMES AND CATHERINE (NEE MOONEY) FLOOD
Written by Patrick Murphy 2011
James Flood was a native of Allen (Isle of Allen or Rathernan), Co. Kildare, Ireland (spelling
on documents tendered in Australia is Allan based on accent of informants) and the son of
James, a labourer and May McCabe his wife. James’s calling was a farm labourer and was
30 years old on embarkation in June 1841. The person certifying the baptism was Rev G.
O’Reilly PP stated as June 1810 who was a Roman Catholic - both James and Catherine
were Roman Catholics. The persons certifying the character of James were Richard
Fitzgerald, Landholder and Peter Mooney, Landholder.
Catherine Flood was the daughter of John Snr and Biddy (Elizabeth) Mooney, also from
Allen, Co. Kildare, Ireland. John’s calling was a farm labourer. Her age on embarkation was
27 years old, sworn by G. H. Midheoff J. P. The same persons certified as to her character
with both being in good ”State of bodily health strength and probable usefulness”.
“Rathernan1 or the Isle of Allen was a parish in the union of Naas, barony of Connell, county of Kildare
and the province of Leinster, 5 ¾ miles (NE) from Kildare. It contained 977 inhabitants in 1844. This
parish comprises 5140 ½ statute acres. It is situated on the bog of Allen by which it and the parish of
Kilmacgue are entirely insulated forming what is called the Isle of Allen, its chief feature is the Hill of
Allen. On its northern border are the ruins of Ballyteigue Castle. At the northern extremity of the hill
about a quarter of a mile distant, is a slight eminence called the leap of Allen, composed of red sandstone
conglomerate, arranged in beds varying in thickness. The greenstone of the hill combined with greenstone
porphyry, appears all round the base on the sides and on the summit in protuberant masses without any
stratification. Rathernan is a rectory and vicerage in the diocese of Kildare. In the Roman Catholic
divisions the parish is part of the district of Allen and Milltown.”
James Flood married2 Catherine Mooney on 5 May 1833 at Allen, Co Kildare, Ireland. Both
are stated as being from the parish of Allen. The witnesses were Henry Dempsey and
Catherine Ivory. The church nor their parents are named in the records. There is no Mauriey
or Morrissey registered in the Parish of Allen.
The church in which James and Catherine were married is likely3 to have been at
Kilmeague, Nass and ‘The Church of St Maedhoc or Mogue.’ It is not certain to which saint
of that name the old church of this place is dedicated.
James and Catherine Flood arrived in Australia on the ship “Eliphinstone” on 8th October
18404 with their family of John, aged 4 in May 1840 and born on 12 April 1836, Thomas,
aged 2 in August 1840 and born on 2 September 1838 and Bridget, aged 6 in May 1840 and
born on 18 May 1834. William Capper bought out the “Eliphinstone”.
Having arrived in Sydney in October 1840, they immediately made their way to Bathurst and
Kings Plains where they had their first child, James, in Australia on 14th November 1841.
James was baptised on 1 January 1842 at Bathurst when they were living at Kings Plains. It
was three years later in 1844 when they had another child, William born on 12 February
1844 and baptised on 28 July 1844. Tragedy struck soon after with the death of James in
1844. Another son was born in 1846 and again named James after their dead son of the
previous 2 years.
It was another two years when James and Catherine had another child, Patrick on 8
February 1848 followed by Mary a further five years on, born on 7 March 1853.
Hi again Peter
If you wanted more information on Catherine who became Mother Mary Imelda at Lochinvar, I'm sure whoever is the current archivist there would be able to help.
Are you in Australia? The phone number of the Congregational Office at Lochinvar is
(02) 4930 9650.
When I read your post initially I wondered why the surname was familiar to me. Now I know - I went to school at Lochinvar so must have seen or been told about Mother Mary Imelda at some time
But she was a bit before my time!
Dawn M
Yes I visited the Lochinvar site and read the Archive report.
She is buried in the nuns (sisters) area SW of the Church on the opposite side as the School.
Hi again Peter
If you wanted more information on Catherine who became Mother Mary Imelda at Lochinvar, I'm sure whoever is the current archivist there would be able to help.
Are you in Australia? The phone number of the Congregational Office at Lochinvar is
(02) 4930 9650.
When I read your post initially I wondered why the surname was familiar to me. Now I know - I went to school at Lochinvar so must have seen or been told about Mother Mary Imelda at some time
But she was a bit before my time!
Dawn M
Subject: RE: FW: Hotels of James Flood TRAVELLERS REST 1872Subject: Re: Travellers RestSome of the 1891 NSW Census Householder Summaries are imaged and available at Ancestry, provided in Association with the NSW State Records.
It is my understanding that not all the Householder Returns survive. Does your copy of that 1891 record actually state that Catherine Flood was the wife of James Flood?
Cheers, JM
HERITAGE
Founding Sisters at Lochinvar
MOTHER MARY IMELDA FLOOD Daughter of THOMAS JNR Son of JAMES AND CATHERINE
Catherine Flood, the eldest of the children of Thomas Flood and Julia Cullen, was born at Blayney in Western New South Wales in August 1862. In March 1881, she entered St Joseph's Convent Perthville, and was professed in January 1883. Later that year she was to leave the "Vale" as one of the four sisters from Perthville to make the foundation at Lochinvar. There she taught the junior classes in the school at Lochinvar till she was appointed superior of the new foundation at Quirindi in 1885. She was there in Quirindi till she was withdrawn to make another new foundation at Burwood in Newcastle in 1888.
In 1889 she was appointed Novice Mistress but in June 1890 she was appointed Sister Guardian, an office she held till June 1893. During her term as leader, foundations were made at Knockfin and Krambach. Eight sisters were professed and thirteen postulants entered. Courageously, she initiated a building program to provide an adequate and substantial Mother House for the congregation.
After resigning as sister guardian she went to Burwood and later to Largs. She was appointed congregational bursar in 1899. Her health began to fail and she was confined
The 1891 record DOES NOT state that Catherine Flood was the wife of James Flood
I do have a record of the marriage of Catherine Mooney and James Flood on 05.05.1833. The only other details on the entry are that they were from Allen and the witnesses were Henry Dempsey and Catherine Ivory. Their children were as follows:
Bridget Flood, baptised on 18.05.1834
John Flood, baptisedon 06.04.1836
Thomas Flood, baptised 02.09.1838
Only the dates of Baptism were recorded but, as you know, babies were generally baptised within a day or two of birth at that time.
Peter
Rising Sun - here are all the references I have to the "Rising Sun"
The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal advertised on 2 April 1862 “RACES, RACES will take place on Easter Monday The 21st of April, 1862, at Mr James Flood’s Rising Sun Inn between Carcoar and Cowra
1875 Had breakfast. Made another start and reached Carcoar at 3 o’clock. Rained all the way. We stayed at Fagan’s Royal Hotel all night. We started before daylight next morning and came to Flood’s ‘The Rising Sun’ for breakfast.
1875 Cowra. I got a fresh horse and went to work at Liscombe Pools the next day. The next morning I started and went to the ‘Rising Sun’ on the Carcoar road
Followed the Carcoar road nearly to the ‘Rising Sun’. Took the left hand track to Egan’s public house on the Carcoar and Canowindra road
1. "Travellers Rest" Euroka, Carcoar District Licensing Year 1/7/1872 Govt Gazette 20/9/1872 p. 2409
2. that is after the RISING SUN, 1865-1868
3. Public House SHEARERS ARMS in Carcoar 1860, before the Rising Sun
Subject: Re: Travellers RestSome of the 1891 NSW Census Householder Summaries are imaged and available at Ancestry, provided in Association with the NSW State Records.
It is my understanding that not all the Householder Returns survive. Does your copy of that 1891 record actually state that Catherine Flood was the wife of James Flood?
Cheers, JM
HERITAGE
Founding Sisters at Lochinvar
MOTHER MARY IMELDA FLOOD Daughter of THOMAS JNR Son of JAMES AND CATHERINE
Catherine Flood, the eldest of the children of Thomas Flood and Julia Cullen, was born at Blayney in Western New South Wales in August 1862. In March 1881, she entered St Joseph's Convent Perthville, and was professed in January 1883. Later that year she was to leave the "Vale" as one of the four sisters from Perthville to make the foundation at Lochinvar. There she taught the junior classes in the school at Lochinvar till she was appointed superior of the new foundation at Quirindi in 1885. She was there in Quirindi till she was withdrawn to make another new foundation at Burwood in Newcastle in 1888.
In 1889 she was appointed Novice Mistress but in June 1890 she was appointed Sister Guardian, an office she held till June 1893. During her term as leader, foundations were made at Knockfin and Krambach. Eight sisters were professed and thirteen postulants entered. Courageously, she initiated a building program to provide an adequate and substantial Mother House for the congregation.
After resigning as sister guardian she went to Burwood and later to Largs. She was appointed congregational bursar in 1899. Her health began to fail and she was confined
The 1891 record DOES NOT state that Catherine Flood was the wife of James Flood
I do have a record of the marriage of Catherine Mooney and James Flood on 05.05.1833. The only other details on the entry are that they were from Allen and the witnesses were Henry Dempsey and Catherine Ivory. Their children were as follows:
Bridget Flood, baptised on 18.05.1834
John Flood, baptisedon 06.04.1836
Thomas Flood, baptised 02.09.1838
Only the dates of Baptism were recorded but, as you know, babies were generally baptised within a day or two of birth at that time.
Peter
Rising Sun - here are all the references I have to the "Rising Sun"
The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal advertised on 2 April 1862 “RACES, RACES will take place on Easter Monday The 21st of April, 1862, at Mr James Flood’s Rising Sun Inn between Carcoar and Cowra
1875 Had breakfast. Made another start and reached Carcoar at 3 o’clock. Rained all the way. We stayed at Fagan’s Royal Hotel all night. We started before daylight next morning and came to Flood’s ‘The Rising Sun’ for breakfast.
1875 Cowra. I got a fresh horse and went to work at Liscombe Pools the next day. The next morning I started and went to the ‘Rising Sun’ on the Carcoar road
Followed the Carcoar road nearly to the ‘Rising Sun’. Took the left hand track to Egan’s public house on the Carcoar and Canowindra road