[SYDNEY] Convent of the Good Samaritan, Pitt Street South. The Rev. Mother & Sisters of the Good Samaritan Convent present their Compliments to Mr and Mrs J. G. O’Connor, and request that they will ki

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[Sydney : s.n., 1890]. Duodecimo card, 75 x 115 mm, printed recto only in black on buff card; the O Connors names recorded in manuscript; toned, roughened along left edge, verso with some paper adhesions and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. A report on the ceremony, published in the Australian Star (Sydney), 28 June 1890, noted that The two young ladies who went through the ceremony of the first profession are both the daughters of well-known parents, and about 21 years of age each. Miss Kathleen Guy takes the religious name of Sister Gertrude, and Miss Esther Howard that of Sister Mary Ligouri . Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From the ADB: Joseph Graham O Connor (1839-1913), journalist and politician, was born at Dareen House, King s County, Ireland, son of Stephen O Connor, tanner and currier, and his wife Ann, née Graham. At 2 he went with his parents to New South Wales. Educated by the Christian Brothers and at the Sydney College, he was apprenticed to a wood engraver and printer. In the late 1850s O Connor began business as an engraver and printer and in 1860 produced the short-lived Sunbeam for the Catholic Young Men s Society. In 1864 he joined W. B. Dalley, W. J. Macleay and J. J. Harpur in bringing out the unsuccessful Sydney Times, devoted to the promotion of Australian literature and the advocacy and

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