Showing posts with label St Johns. Show all posts
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Thursday, 27 March 2014

St Johns Research - Part Two

This page includes a list of people interred in the lower St Johns Cemetery
The list is incomplete as the cemetery is still in use.

 
 1936

The Advertiser

Tuesday 6 October 1936

CHURCH SERVICES AT KAPUNDA
Light-Hearted Back To School Incidents KAPUNDA, October 5.
A visitor to Kapunda for the Centenary celebrations was the Archbishop of Adelaide (Most Rev. Dr. Killian). who attended the street carnival on Saturday night.
Yesterday he celebrated first mass at St. Rose's Church, and afterwards administered the sacrament of confirmation to 75 candidates. In the afternoon a procession of motor cars was formed at St. Rose's, and traveled to St. John's Cemetery, where Dr. Killian unveiled a monument to the first parish priest in Kapunda, the Rev. John Fallon, who was in charge in 1849.
The pilgrimage also visited the grave of the first Vicar-General of the Archdiocese, the Rev. Michael Ryan. Six priests are buried in St. John's Cemetery, and all the graves were visited. Among the 'visitors was Mrs. Meggins, aged 93, who was a parishioner in Father Fallon's time.
The Archbishop and Father Maloney, the present priest, addressed the assemblage. Special services were held at the other churches, at which there were large congregations. Including many old time residents. Among the visiting clergy were the Revs. C. P. Hall (Glen Osmond), P. C. Eckersley (Wesley College), and A. E. Bell (chairman of the Congregational Union).
In the afternoon a combined national thanksgiving service was held in the Soldiers' Memorial Hall, the arrangements for which were in the charge of the Rev. A. E. Kain (Anglican). An address was given by the Rev. Mr. Hall, a former minister of Christ Church, who spent part of his childhood in the Kapunda district.
Others who assisted in the service were the Rev. G. H. Cleaveley (Congregational), S. Bowering (Baptist) Adjutant Peek (Salvation Army). A combined choir under the baton of Mr. George Anderson, led the singing, and the Kapunda Brass Band supplied the accompaniment.
This morning about 150 people attended the primary school for the back to school celebrations. Several foundation scholars attended, and a number were in school attire.
Mr. J. Langdon, the Mayor of Thebarton, acted as teacher, and during the recess flew a kite promised him by Mr. J. H. Sampson 55 years ago, and just handed over. The classrooms were crowded, and the old scholars sang lustily part-songs of 50 years ago.
The visitors were welcomed by the Mayor (Mr C H. Branson), who also recited "The Old Grey Hen." Addresses were given by Messrs. W. J. C. Cole, Fred Bennett, T. S. Davie (one of the first teachers), and W. T. Truscott. The "Song of Australia" concluded the proceedings.
In the afternoon a school demonstration was held at Dutton Park.
The Kapunda school and all the district schools joined forces in marches, drills, maypole and other dances, all combining to form the word Kapunda on the oval. This evening the Kapunda and District Old Scholars' Association gave a repeat performance of "Snapshot Follies of 1936" in the Memorial Hall, which was crowded. The takings at the barriers for the street carnival on Saturday night amounted to more than £60. The picnic race meeting, which was to be held on Wednesday, has been abandoned owing to insufficient entries.



 
Photo "The Risen" by Allen Tiller (c) 2009

The names of those interred in
St Johns Cemetery
 This is an incomplete list as the cemetery is still in use and there is also
many unmarked, unregistered burials

ANDERSON, Kathleen Gertrude & Robert John
AREND, Veronica Mary
ASCIONE, Joseph
BAGALINI, Antonio
BAIRD, Elizabeth
BAIRD, James & Margaret
BAIRD, Mary Ann
BAIRD, Thomas
BANEY, Peter
BEECHMAN, Catherine
BENEKE, Gordon Herbert & Irene Gladys
BLAND, Ruby Olive
BOYLAN, Patrick Peter & Ursula Margaret
BREEN, Elizabeth
BRENNAN, Martin & Eliza & Ellen & Benjamin
BROADBENT, William J & Mary E
BROCK, Catherine & William & William
BROCK, William Harold & Elizabeth Margaret
BRODIE, Margaret & Joseph
BROGGY, Richard & Mary
BROOKS, Dulcie V

BROWN, Emily & Edward & Marguerite
BROWN, Jonathan & Margaret & Margaret
BROWNE, James & Elizabeth
BURGESS, Bridget Rose & Joseph Edwin
BURGESS, Doreen Patricia & Mary Jane
BURGESS, Mary I
BURGESS, Susan Betty
BURGESS, Susan
BURKE, Helen
BURKE, Helena & John
BURKE, John (2)
BURKE, John
BURKE, Matthias & Mary & James
BURKE, Michael
BYRNE, John & Walter & Kate & Mary & Margaret
BYRNE, Patrick & Kate
BYRT, Michael & Mary
CABEY, Ellen & Thomas
CAHALAN, Margaret T M
CAHALAN, Michael & Ellen
CALLANAN, Bridget & Michael
CALLANAN, Margaret & John
CANNY, Thomas
CAREY, Johanna & Daniel
CAREY, John & Honora
CAREY, William P & Maria A
CARROLL, Bridget
CARROLL, John
CARTER, Ernest W
CASH, Patrick & Ignatius
CLANCY, Margaret
CLANCY, Thomas
CLOHESY, Bridget
CLOHESY, Kate
CLOHESY, Mary & Annie
CLOHESY, Patrick James
COADY, Henry
COFFEE, Patrick Joseph & Margaret Anne
COFFEY, Michael & Patrick & Mary
COGHILL, William
COLBERT, James & Sara Ann
CONNOLLY, John
CONOLAN, Minnie & Patrick John
COSTELLO, Agnes & Patrick
COSTELLO, Elizabeth & Francis & Francis Michael
COSTELLO, Joseph & Thomas & Hanorah & Annie
COSTELLO, Kathleen Elizabeth
COSTELLO, Laurence Martin
COSTELLO, Margaret & Francis
COSTELLO, Patrick & Catherine
COSTELLO, Vincent Joseph
COSTELLOE, Mary
CRAIG, Catherine
CROWLEY, Simon & Maria Teresa & Agnes & Margaret Ann
CROZIER, Billie
CULLINANA, Michael & Elizabeth
CUNNEEN, Ann & Michael & Maria
CURTIN, Patrick & Bridget
CURTIS, William & Mary
DALEY, James & Mary
DALY, Honora & Elizabeth & Michael
DALY, Mary
DAVAREN, Anne
DAVOREN, John
DAVOREN, Thomas & Nora & Austin
DEEN, Margaret
DERMODY, Cornelius
DERMODY, John & Elizabeth Anne
DERMODY, Mark Danien
DERMODY, Michael & Margaret
DERMODY, Michael Eugene
DERMODY, Michael
DERMODY, Rose
DERMODY, Thomas & Honora
DEVLIN, John & Rose
DIEKMAN, Anthony Rees
DIEKMAN, R W
DOECKE, Geoffrey
DOHERTY, Mary & Ida
DONNELLAN, John & Bridget & James & Thomas & Michael
DRAPER, Phyllis Ann
DRISCOLL, Lillian & Thomas Maurice
DRISCOLL, Mary & John
DRISCOLL, Patrick & Hanorah & Catherine
DRISCOLL, Patrick Howard & Frances Mary
DRISCOLL, William & Mary Jane
DUFF, Michael Joseph
DUFF, Patrick & Mary
DUFF, Patrick John & Margaret
DUFF, William & Rose
DUNDON, Catherine & Edward & Mary
DUNDON, Michael & Margaret
DWYER nee DRISCOLL, Catherine
DWYER, Margaret & Patrick
EDGINTON, Mark
FAHY, Edward & Margaret
FALLON, John
FISHER, Mary
FISHER, Thomas & Ann
FITZGERALD, Hilda
FITZGERALD, Patrick & Mary & Clara & Sheila
FITZPATRICK, Hannah
FITZPATRICK, Mary
FITZPATRICK, Patrick
FITZPATRICK, Thomas William & Gwendoline Beryl
FITZPATRICK, William & Honora & Sarah
FLANNAGAN, John
FLANNAGAN, Margaret
FLYNN, Hannah & John
FLYNN, Mary
FOOTE, John Francis & Anna M
FUDGE, Edward Thomas & Susan
FUDGE, Ellen Laura
FUDGE, Mary Jane
FUDGE, Sarah & Edward
GARRIHY nee BURKE, Mary & John
GEIER, Bridget & Carl Louis
GEPP, William
GILLICK, Ellen
GILLICK, Katherine
GILLICK, Simon Doil
GILLOW, John
GLEESON, Hanora
GLEESON, James
GLYNN, Eugene M M
GOODFELLOW, Patric John
GOODFELLOW, Sarah Elizabeth & Edward Patrick
GOORTY, John & William
GOORTY, Thomas & Elizabeth
GRAHAM, Leslie
GURRY, Elizabeth & Margaret & Elizabeth Mary & James
GURRY, Jane & Richard & Jane
GURRY, John
HAMBOUR, Nicholas Saleem & Edna Mary
HANSBERRY, Annie & Rodger
HANSBERRY, Bertrand & Maire Wilmer
HANSBERRY, Bridget & Matthias
HANSBERRY, Francis Thomas
HANSBERRY, Jessie Mary
HANSBERRY, John & Honorah
HANSBERRY, John Louis & Myrtle
HANSBERRY, Joseph & Olive
HANSBERRY, Joseph David & Veronica (McCarthy)
HANSBERRY, Julia
HANSBERRY, Luke & Andrew Joseph
HANSBERRY, Margaret Mary
HANSBERRY, Margaret
HANSBERRY, Mary & Martin
HANSBERRY, Mary & Michael Patrick
HANSBERRY, Mary
HANSBERRY, Mathias Rodger & Thomas  & Mary Eileen
HANSBERRY, Michael Cyril
HANSBERRY, Nora
HANSBERRY, Olive Anne & Thomas Luke
HANSBERRY, Rodger William & Phyllis Madge
HANSBERRY, Rodger
HANSBERRY, Thomas & James
HARE, Catherine
HARLOW, Peter Damien
HARTMAN, Mary Katherine
HARTNOTT, Mary
HATCH, James
HATCH, Joshua G
HATCH, Joshua
HATCH, Mary
HATCH, Thomas & Elizabeth
HAYES, Ellen
HEALEY, Alice & John
HEALEY, Jane F & Alice
HEALY, Joseph
HEHIR, Maria
HEHIR, Mary
HEHIR, Patrick
HENDERSON, Lizzie Mary
HENIHAN, Michael
HENIHAN, William & Margaret
HEUZENROEDER, Marguerita
HEUZENROEDER, Mary Catherine
HIGGINS, Bryan Dominic
HIGGINS, Ellen & Patrick
HIGGINS, John & Marie Raymond
HIGGINS, Raymond Thomas
HIGGINS, Thomas Joseph
HIGGS, Alfred & Bridget Anne
HINES, Dinnis
HINES, George James
HINES, John Thomas
HINES, Mary
HINES, Matilda Emma & Edward
HINES, Ruth & John Thomas
HINES, Terence & Bridget
HINES, Terence & Robert Charles
HINES, William Henry
HOGAN, Catherine A & Timothy Augustine
HOGAN, Elizabeth
HOGAN, John & Johanna
HOGAN, Timothy
HORGAN, Annie & John Vincent & Michael
HORGAN, Johanna (2)
HORGAN, Johanna (3)
HORGAN, Johanna
HORGAN, John & Honora
HORGAN, Thomas & John
HYDE, Sydney C
HYLAND, Thomoe
HYNES, Bridget & Daniel & Matthew
ISBELL, Alice
JACKSON, Elizabeth & Angus F
JORDAN, Bridget & Kate & Michael
JORDAN, Kate & Thomas & Margaret
KALINOWSKI, Czeslaw & Janina
KEANE, Mary Stella
KEANE, Patrick Joseph
KEANE, Simon & Honor
KEANRE, Michael
KEARIN, Elizabeth & John J
KEARNE, John & Maria
KEARNE, Patrick James
KEARNE, Thomas & Frieda Agnes
KEARNE, Timothy
KEARNES, William S & Emelda & Hanora Laura
KEARSE, Michael
KELLETT, James Kevin
KENEALEY, James
KENNARE, Mary Ann & Michael & Katherine & Margaret
KENT, C N
KERIN, Edith Isobel & James
KERIN, Honora & Patrick
KERIN, James
KERIN, John Michael
KERIN, Michael & Margaret
KERIN, Michael Joseph & Mary Sarah & Margaret
KERIN, Mortimer & Mary & Agnes
KERIN, Patrick Joseph & Alice Ada
KERIN, Peter & Mary
KERIN, Peter & Muriel
KERIN, Thomas & Norah
KERSLAKE, Terence James
KIDNEY, Mary A
KIERGE, Francis
KILDEA, Bernard & Margaret Ann & Bernard John
KILDEA, James & Margaret
KILDEA, James Bernard & Mary Agnes & Margaret Theresa
KILMARTIN, Ellen
KITSCHKE, John
KNIGHT, Mary & John
KRUGER nee GEIER, Carrie
LAINTOL nee WHITE, Catherine
LAINTOLL, Catherine
LAINTOLL, James & Catherine
LAINTOLL, Peter
LAINTOLL, Thomas Ambrose & Ellen
LANGDON, Imelda Annie
LAWRENCE, Marie & Perce
LAWRENCE, P H
LEAHEY, Katherine
LEAHY, Cornelius & Catherine
LIIHRMANN, Bellinda
LOVE, Annie M
LOW, Frances Teresa & Geoff
MacFARLANE, Staturn Nike
MACKAY, Nelly
MADRILL, F R & Leo
MAGUIRE, Annie Margaret
MAGUIRE, Bernard & Mary
MAGUIRE, Frank
MAGUIRE, John
MAGUIRE, Unknown & Jane
MAGUIRE, Vincent
MAHONEY, Edward
MANGAN, John M
MARGAR, Unknown
MARTENS, Martha Violet & Harry
MARTIN, James
MATHYS, Frank
MAYGER, Teresa & Harry Thomas & Raymond James
McCAFFERTY, Albert
McCAFFERTY, Annie
McCAN, Timothy
McCARTHY, Bridget
McCARTHY, Martin
McCARTHY, Mary & Honora & Catherine & Jopseph Francis & Bridget Anastasia & Ellen Agnes 2
McCARTHY, Mary & Mary & Honora & Catherine & Joseph Francis & Bridget Anastasia & Ellen Agnes & Martin
McCARTHY, Mary
McCARTHY, Peter & Honora
McCORMACK, Anne & Delia
McCULLOCH, Leo S
McDONALD, John
McEWEN, Edmond Corlett & Mavis Thelma
McGARRON, Elizabeth
McGEE, Damien
McGEE, Greg
McGUIRE, Fransis & Mary  Francis
McINERNEY, Anne
McINERNEY, Timothy & Catherine
McINHERNEY, James & Mary & Patrick J & Mary
McMAHON, C W
McMAHON, Christopher
McMAHON, Cornelius Ambrose & Bridget
McMAHON, Lorna Betty
McMAHON, Martin R & Mary Catherine
McMAHON, Martin
McMAHON, Mary & Martin
McMAHON, Mary (2)
McMAHON, Mary (3)
McMAHON, Mary Ann May & William John
McMAHON, Mary
McMAHON, Maurice John
McMAHON, Sheila Margaret & Mary Katherine
McNAMARA, James
McNAMARA, John
McNAMARA, Joseph & Ellen Violet
McNAMARA, Patrick & Mary
MEANEY, Bridget
MEANEY, Catherine & Thomas John
MEANEY, ellen
MEANEY, Emily Teresa & John
MEANEY, James
MEANEY, John Thomas
MEANEY, John
MEANEY, Mary & Patrick
MEANEY, Mary Ellen & Albert Michael & John James
MEANEY, Mary Margaret (2)
MEANEY, Mary Margaret
MEANEY, Michael
MEANEY, Nora Ellen & Thomas William
MEANEY, Patrick Joseph & Thomas James
MEANEY, Thomas & Mary
MEANEY, William Sylvester
MEGGINS, James Bernard
MEICS, Caroline
MENZIES, Margaret
MICHALANNEY, John J & Elizabeth M & William J
MICHALANNEY, Ron & Reta
MINAGALL, C F
MINAGALL, Charles Francis & Ada Esperanza
MODYSTACK, Bernard Leon & Doreen Eira
MODYSTACK, Bernard Leon
MODYSTACK, Henry P
MOLLOY, Annie & Timothy
MOLLOY, Jessie
MOLLOY, Johanna
MOLONY, John & Mary & Flora
MOORE, Michael
MORAN, Margaret & Susan
MORAN, Patrick Joseph & Michael James & Thomas Francis & Lucy Alice
MORRISSEY, Patrick
MOSEY, William & Kathleen Dorothea
MOSEY, William Steward & Ellen Modesta
MOYNAHAN, Jeremiah
MULLEN, Mary & Robert
MURPHY nee RODGERS, Elizabeth & Edward
MURPHY, Agnes
MURPHY, Cicly & Francis
MURPHY, James & Annie & Mary & Joseph & Benjamin
MURPHY, James F
MURPHY, John & Mary Margaret
MURPHY, Joseph Daniel
MURPHY, Mary & John
MURPHY, Mathew Peter & Myra Muriel
MURPHY, Patrick & Rose & Matthew
MURPHY, Rose
MURPHY, Thomas
MURPHY, William & Agnes & William & Alice Una & Imelda Clarice
NAUGHTON, Ann
NEINDORF, Ellen P & Roy Douglas
NEWMAN, Patrick
NIXON, Bridget Cathrine
NIXON, Gordon B
NIXON, Jack
NIXON, Zita Agnes
NOONAN, Cornelius & Sarah & Peter Francis
O'BRIEN, Bridget Gertrude & Michael Joseph & John Andrew
O'BRIEN, Daniel
O'BRIEN, Edward & Susan
O'BRIEN, Edward
O'BRIEN, Ellen & Michael
O'BRIEN, Ellen Teresa & Henry
O'BRIEN, Johanna & James
O'BRIEN, John Alexander & Clara Mary
O'BRIEN, Michael
O'BRIEN, Norman James
O'BRIEN, Patrick Joseph
O'BRIEN, Thomas & Mary
O'BRIEN, Thomas Michael & Edna
O'CALLAHAN, Mary & Martin & Michael & Annie
O'CALLAHAN, Michael & Mary & Michael Matthew
O'DONNELL, Louisa & Joseph
O'DONOGHUE, Nora
O'KEEFFE, Michael
O'LEARY, Michael
O'LOUGHLIN, Ann Theresa & Mary
O'LOUGHLIN, Anne
O'LOUGHLIN, Elizabeth
O'LOUGHLIN, Thomas & Mary & Thomas & John & Bedelia & Anne
O'SHEA, Patrick Thomas & Philip & Martin
O'SULLIVAN, Hannah Catherine & Hannah M
O'SULLIVAN, James John
O'TOOLE, Catherine
O;SHEA, Hannah & Joseph Laurence & Joseph Phillip
PERRY, Ann T
PERRY, William
PETERSON, Vera
PHELAN, Edawrd Francis
PHELAN, Edward & Lily & Leo
POPE, Peter Francis
RANDALL, Teresa Eileen
RAWADY, Brian Trevor
RAWADY, E
RAWADY, George Michael
RAWADY, Kathleen Mariam & Helena
RAWADY, Michael & Nazerra
RAWADY, Mitri E
RAWADY, Nazeera & Edna & Michael
READE, Mary Helen & Agnes Alma Annie
REES, Agnes Mary & Enid Marie
REYNOLDS, Charles William
RICHARDS, Gregory E
RICHTER, August & Winifred
ROACH, Anna Maria
ROACH, Thomas
ROBERTSON, David William
ROBERTSON, Murray David & Anna Christina
ROBERTSON, William Arthur & Jane Catherine
RODGERS, Bridget Cecilia
RODGERS, Catherine & William
RODGERS, James & Ann & Mary & Thomas
RODGERS, John & Elizabeth 2
RODGERS, John & Elizabeth
RODGERS, John T C
RODGERS, Phillip
RODGERS, William  James
ROLFE, John
RONAN, Martin
RONAN, Mary & Michael & Mary A
RONAN, Patrick (2)
RONAN, Patrick 2
RONAN, Patrick
RYAN, Beatrice & Luke James
RYAN, Bernard James
RYAN, Dennis & Mary Elizabeth
RYAN, Dennis M
RYAN, Ellen
RYAN, Eugene Joseph
RYAN, Graham John
RYAN, James & Joseph & Joseph
RYAN, James & Mary 2
RYAN, James Sylvester & Hilda Veronica
RYAN, John & Anna Elizabeth & Leonard John
RYAN, John D
RYAN, John F
RYAN, Kathleen Mary & Patrick Clement (2)
RYAN, Kathleen Mary & Patrick Clement
RYAN, Lawrence James
RYAN, M
RYAN, Martin & Bridget
RYAN, Mary (2)
RYAN, Mary Aileen & Kevin William
RYAN, Mary
RYAN, Maurice Patrick & Kathleen Veronica
RYAN, Michael
RYAN, Olga F M & Clyde
RYAN, Patrick & Helena
RYAN, Raymond Michael & Audrey Maybelle
SACHSE, Lorraine Mary & Brian Harold
SANDLAND, Mary
SCHEID, Augustine & Winifred
SCHEINER, Ferdinand & Barbara Elizabeth
SCHELL, Kate & Rose
SCHNEINER, Johannes Ferdinand
SCHROEDER, Mary Anne
SCHULTZ, Geoffrey Emil
SEXTON, Patrick
SHEEHAN, John Thomas & Mary & Kevin Edward & Michael John
SILVY, James Joseph
SLATTERY, Ann & Patrick
SMITH, Bridget & William & Joseph
SMITH, Cecily
SMITH, Frank
SMITH, Imelda Elizabeth
SMITH, Mary Ann
SOCHACKI, Stanislaw John & Sophia
SULLIVAN, W J
SWANN, Frederick Washington
SWANN, John Robrert & Irene Immaculate
SWANN, Mary Immaculate & Margaret Kathleen
TALIS, George
TAYLOR, Benjamin John & Elizabeth Marie nee KERIN
TAYLOR, Benjamin Thomas & Eileen Eugenie
THOMPSON, Florence Maud & George Francis
TIMENS, Michael & John & Ellen & John & Catharine & Jane
TIMLIN, Aaron James
TIMLIN, James
TOBIN, Michael & Unknown
TRANTER, Lucy E & Francis
TRANTER, Mary & Ezechiel
TRAVERS, James & Mary
TRAVERS, John Thomas & ellen Teresa & Ellen Gertrude & Mary Agnes
TRAVERS, Margaret
TRAVERS, Owen & Anne
TRAVERS, Owen
TYRELL, Bridget & Patrick
UNKNOWN, Philip
UNKNOWN, Rose
UNKNOWN, Unknown 1
VARDY nee TORRY, Josephine Emily
VARDY, William Bell
VAUGHAN, Norah
VROOMEN, Freddie
VROOMEN, Johanna & Godfrey
WALSH, Edward Joseph & Claire Catherine
WALSH, Elizabeth
WALSH, John Joseph & Teresa Mary
WALSH, Joseph Murray & David Malcolm & David
WALSH, Mary & Hugh & Jane
WALSH, Mary & Kathleen
WALSH, Matthew Edward
WARREN, George
WARRICK nee TRANTER, Lucy E
WARRICK, Benjamin Roger
WHITBREAD, Elizabeth
WHITE, Charles
WHITE, Elfrieda & Hillary Francis
WHITE, Elizabeth Therese
WHITE, John James & Gwendoline
WHITE, John
WHITE, Margaret Gemma & Helen Elizabeth & Brian Patrick
WHITE, Margaret
WHITE, Mary & Honorah
WHITE, Mary & John & Mary Ann
WHITE, Mary Teresa & Batwick John & Mary Elizabeth
WHITE, Mary Teresa
WHITE, Maurice James
WHITE, Patricia
WHITE, Patrick & Maria
WHITE, Richard Rupert
WHITE, Thomas
WHITE, William Thomas & Mary Agnes
WILLIAMS nee CONNELL, Margaret & Raymond John
WILLIAMS, Catherine & Roy
WILLIAMS, George Michael
WILLIAMS, John Henry & Susan
WILLIAMS, Margaret Anne
WILSON, Unknown
WOODS, Beryl E M & Margaret Ann
WOODS, Gary
WOODS, James & Harvey James
WOODS, John
WRIGHT, William & Adelaide & William 2
WRIGHT, William & Adelaide & William


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Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Eidolon Investigation - St Johns (Various Years)


Photo of St Johns Cemetery Gates © 2010 Allen Tiller

Saint Johns Reformatory, Presbytery and Cemeteries

Investigation Status: Ongoing
Location: South Australia
Location type: Catholic Cemetery
Location status: Open during daylight
Closed after dark
(Trespassers can be prosecuted)
For newspaper stories relating to the reformatory please visit:  "St Johns History"

Recent History

Kapunda, a country town north of Adelaide, once famous for being a copper mining town, and the home of Australia's richest pastoralist, Sidney Kidman. Now a farming community, and possibly the most haunted town in Australia.
 In 2001 a television film crew, headed by host Warwick Moss, of "The Extraordinary" fame conducted an (ongoing) investigation into the hauntings of Kapunda called "Kapunda: The Most Haunted Town in The Western World" 
In the Documentary he covered The Old Kapunda Court House and Police Station which stand next to each other, numerous houses in the area and of course St. Johns Reformatory and Cemetery. The script for the documentary was based on research written by Kevin McNeil and members of a prominent South Australian paranormal group of the time, however some liberties were taken with the stories for filming purposes and much of the research has now been found to be either exaggerated or totally wrong. Since the release of the documentary many of the "facts" within the film have been disproved, some by Eidolon Paranormal, simply by asking the one man who knows more about the cemetery than anybody else, Mr Peter Swann, Author and local historian, and caretaker of St Johns Cemetery ..
 Warwick famously spent the night alone in the reformatory ruins, filming on a handy-cam the whole time, when the film crew returned the next day Warwick was in tears and swore he would never do anything like that again!
 The History of St. Johns is long and interesting. However, a lot of what you will read online about the happenings at the Reformatory during its operational years are grossly distorted and quite often, completely wrong (as stated above). It is however very easy to access documents and history related to St. Johns and the former town which stood on the site.
 Numerous Paranormal groups visit St. Johns, as do thrill-seekers, hoons and vandals - it is very hard place to conduct a serious investigation due to the constant traffic and the weather conditions.
We here at Eidolon visit the ruins and Cemetery often and log the constant damage caused by vandals, reporting it to the curator and police. We will also report anyone we find their doing the wrong thing.
 Below we are presenting a brief history of the site and the facts (that are publicly available) to you. We aim to present the truth without descending into hearsay and speculation. We will also publish some of the rumours here as a representation of just how far-fetched the stories are becoming...



"Kapunda: The Most Haunted Town In The Western World" ...So rang the title of Warwick Moss's television documentary about Kapunda, which included a trip to the historic reformatory and cemetery- a night Warwick soon won’t forget!
5 kms South East of Kapunda, the town of Johnstown was established by a large Irish Catholic community. They established the church of Saint John the Evangelist with the corner stone laid on April 2nd 1850, by Bishop Francis Murphy.
A presbytery was built at the same time as the church and a graveyard was established some 70 metres from the church entrance.
Father Fallon was appointed the first parish priest and remained living in the presbytery until his death, on 25 March 1860. Father Fallon was succeeded by Father Michael Ryan (died 24-08-1865). Others who served as parish priest, included: Father Jeremiah Moynahan (died 21-12-1867), Father Hyland (died 13-04-1868), Father Byrne and lastly, (and most famously), Father James Martin (who died in 1921).
A new cemetery was established close by (Saint John's Catholic), in 1861. The bodies of the priests were removed from the original cemetery and re-interred in the new cemetery in 1891.
In 1869 the church was converted into a school and convent, after the completion of a new Catholic Church within Kapunda (St Rose of Lima). This Reformatory was run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, which included  St. Mary MacKillop (who stayed in Kapunda for three months). During this time, in a letter, she wrote about her experiences with a local ghost at the site.
The Girls’ Reformatory was closed in 1909 by Arch Bishop O'Rielly. The remaining girls were transferred to Burra - the buildings were then used as private dwellings until the 1950s. The church was demolished in 2002 after constant vandalism.

                                                                                                

A Time Line of events at St. Johns
 For a list of burials please click Here

1849:
 Government grants land 5kms south east of Kapunda
     Father Fallon ordained
          July 1849 Father Fallon appointed to St. Johns
Father George Michael Williams Born in Mauritius 

1850:
 2nd April The foundation stone of St John the Evangelist Church was laid by  Bishop Francis Murphy
 presbytery built

1854:
 30 April 1854 that the church was finished and officially opened

1857:
 Father James Martin born in County Galway Ireland

1859:
School opened

1860:
 25th March Death of Father Fallon,  died suddenly aged 40
          Father Michael Ryan appointed parish priest
          All church services moved to a small barn on site of future St. Roses Church Kapunda
     
1861:
 Lower cemetery opened
  "St. Johns church" graveyard closed

1862:
13th July The Saint Rose of Lima foundation stone was laid in Kapunda
8th Feb First church service held at St. Roses newly completed church

1864:

          3rd April Father Ryan performs wedding ceremony for Horace McKinley and Martha Craig
          10th Oct. Father Carew performs wedding ceremony for Joseph J. Walsh and M.A. Carley.

1865:
24 August Death of Father Michael Ryan who died from apoplexy

          Father Jeremiah Moynahan appointed parish priest

1867:
 post office opened
     21st December death of Father Jeremiah Moynahan

1868:
Sisters of St.Joseph start teaching at school
    13 April death of Father Thomas Hyland
     
1869:
 presbytery converted to a convent and school

1878:
 Dr. Eugene McMahon Glynne born in County Galway Ireland

1879:

post office closed

 1881:
 New school built in Kapunda - children from St. Johns school transferred to new school

1890:
 James Martin becomes ordained priest and arrives in South Australia

1891:
 Father Fallons remains removed from graveyard and re-interred in Cemetery
          Ruby Olive Murray Bland born near " Lake Victoria"

1895:
 Act proclaimed by State Children's Council to place Catholic State Children in private institutions, as long as they were away from Adelaide.

1897:
 Mary MacKillop arrives at St. Johns to oversee renovations - stays 3 months
          Church site opens as Girls Reformatory under the supervision of Sisters of St. Joseph
      4th June Mary MacKillop installs  Miss Mary O'Brien (Sister Helena) as first head matron of Reformatory

1899:
reformatory extended to include cells

1901:
 Annual Council report states that the reformatory is kept in splendid order,girls well cared for, receiving good religious, moral and practical training.
 1903:
News Story 
1908:
 June Sister Helena transferred to Victoria
          Miss Mary Coxs (Sister Berchams) appointed Head Matron

1909:
 Aug: Father O'Rielly approves the closure of reformatory
         15th Nov.Ruby Bland admitted to the Kapunda Hospital with suspected stone in the bile duct from the liver
           Ruby Bland operated on by Dr. Eugene McMahon Glynn, head of surgery at Kapunda Hospital
          16th Nov Mr Gray, the Secretary of the Children's Department arrives at Reformatory. announces in the "Kapunda Herald" that St. Johns reformatory will be closing down.
         28th Nov Death of Ruby Bland from Cholithiasis Operative Shock in Kapunda  hospital
          29th Nov. Reformatory closed by Archbishop O'Riely
          29th Nov. Ruby Bland buried at St. Johns cemetery
          Girls transferred to Redruth girls reformatory in Burra

1914:
 death of Dr. Eugene McMahon Glynn aged 48 years

1920:

13th Feb: Death of Monsignor George Michael Williams (aged 71)

1921

 Jan: Death of Father James Martin

1936:
 Headstone erected on Father Fallons grave
      4th Oct Headstone revealed by Father Killian

1938:
 Window removed and placed in St. Rose's church Kapunda

 2001:
Sept. Warwick Moss films "Kapunda: most haunted town in Australia"

2002:
 Catholic church demolishes Reformatory after constant vandalism
      Peter Swann, St. Johns Curator, finds grave monument to Ruby Bland buried under a pile of dirt and begins restoration of her grave
Vandals break Father Fallons grave stone

2010
Curator, Peter Swann erects memorial to children buried at St. Johns
Blessed Mary MacKillop is Canonised to be Australia's first Saint

2011
Trees along fence line, near entrance are felled
Broadband lines are laid along reformatory road from Moppa to Kapunda

2012
New trees planted along front  fence line
Graves in rear section restored (see photo below)

2013
University of Adelaide Students begin study into the site, including mapping of the former graveyard, Church and presbytery. They find a number of interesting artifacts and raise a few new puzzles about the usage of the site.
 New rear entry gate is installed by the Church, plus fence repairs

Photo © Allen Tiller, Eidolon Paranormal March 2012

 Many thanks to local historian Peter Swann for all the information he has passed on to us over the years.

         



The Myths of St Johns
The cemetery and ruins have attracted a great deal of attention over the years, from ghost stories in "True Barossa Ghosts (gathered with good spirit)" by Valerie Laughton, to documentaries by Warwick Moss, plus websites, facebook pages, you-tube videos and even newspaper stories.
Research is still being conducted by many paranormal teams, genealogist, independent researchers, paranormal enthusiasts and a myriad of journalists, reporters and authors..Many of the stories currently found, particularly on the internet are grossly distorted, personal points of view or plain lies. It isn't hard to dig for the truth about the place or its people, one only needs to venture into the Kapunda Public library or record archives, or simply contact the curator himself, who has a vast knowledge of the site.
One thing Eidolon Paranormal is trying to achieve is sorting the fact from fiction. It is our goal to educate the masses of people interested in this location with facts not rumours, innuendo or fiction.
Here are some of the rumours and fiction we have come across on the internet and through hearing stories from the public at the Cemetery.
  • Father Martin Murdered Ruby Bland
  • Father Martin Got Ruby Bland Pregnant
  • Babies were thrown in the reformatory furnace
  • Ruby hung herself
  • Vera was in the reformatory
  • A girl hung herself from the palm tree
  • A girl hung herself on the large tree in the field
  • The Girls were placed in the reformatory for being pregnant
  • Father Martin and nuns conducted abortions
  • Father Martin became crazed and killed everyone on site, then himself
  • Nuns were killed
Obviously some of these rumours are far fetched, some plain ridiculous, but all fuel the urban legend being created by misinformed individuals. We believe it is part of our job as Paranormal Investigators to educate people about  the truth of this, and other locations, and to instate a feeling of respect for the cemetery and the people buried inside, who all once lived, and now only have a tombstone to mark their life story.

The Truth:


 - Father Martin did not kill Ruby Bland - Ruby died in the Kapunda Hospital from complications of what equates today to "gall bladder stones"

  - No Girls died whilst in the reformatory

  - No babies were killed by Nuns at the reformatory, for the people who say "conspiracy", do you think a Nun would kill a baby, and break all her vows with God?

  - Ruby DID NOT die from hanging

 - Vera was born after the reformatory had closed, and was a local celebrity of sorts whose life can easily be traced in the Museum.

 - No-one was hung from the palm tree - it would be mighty difficult to do so....think about it.

 - The large tree in the middle of the field has been estimated to not be old enough to have been there in the time of the reformatory, this rules out that particular tree being a "hanging tree"

 - There are no records of girls being placed in the reformatory for being pregnant, girls in such a state would have been placed in the Women's Asylum ( now the Migration Museum), instead, girls in the Reformatory were usually incarcerated for breaking curfew and petty crimes.

 - Father Martin, and The Sisters of St Josephs Nuns, being good Catholics would never allow abortion to happen, it goes against everything the Catholics religion says - this is purely a rumour that has popped out over the last 15 years or so since the Warwick Moss Documentary

 - Father Martin died of Senile Inertia, meaning, he became so senile he could no longer fend for himself, letters held by Peter Swann show that the Father lived on in the Presbytery of the Reformatory for another ten years after it closed, Former interns (girls) often came to check on him and help feed him, he died alone in his bed. He killed no-one, although his State of Mind is questioned in newspaper reports, it is because if his senility, not because he was a crazed schizophrenic madman, he was a man slowly losing who he was...

 - Nuns were never killed at the reformatory, however at least one Nun is buried in the Cemetery who had worked at St John's, but she died of natural causes and also worked at St Rose of Lima and the local Nunnery.

If you hear of any other crazy rumours or stories, please let us know by emailing Allen@eidolonparanormal.net and we will get to the bottom of it!
We seek to bring you the truth of what really happened at St johns, and it is nothing remotely like what was said in the Documentary, or the what you will find on other paranormal websites .

        

A Ghost Story

This is a similar story, but not the same as, the one published in Valerie Laughton's book, "True Barossa Ghosts"

"In 1980 fourteen students from Kapunda went to Saint Johns Cemetery and reformatory at night. They heard a rumbling, bumping sound; they saw a marble slab move back from one the graves. they could not see any ropes or wires attached and saw nothing emerge. The vases began to move and the flowers were flung into the air. The students saw a semi-transparent girl with a long white gown, with long dark hair carrying a hurricane lantern that had a yellowish glow moving through the cemetery. Gravestones could be seen through her. the figure glided through a fence and headed towards the old reformatory ruins. She entered the ruins moving through the rooms and passageway and could be seen by the students through the broken windows. After a period of time  the figure headed back down the hill and back to the cemetery. She rose from the ground and her feet could be seen, she thinned into a yellowish-white light and spun herself and drove speedily into the earth. The students worked up the courage and slowly moved into the area were the ghostly figure disappeared. They found a circular spot with strange markings imprinted into the soil."


References and further info can be found at:
 
St. Johns - Facebook Group
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/johnstown.htm
References:
Trove.nla.gov.au
"Kapunda: Most haunted Town in Australia"- Warwick Moss
Kapunda Town Library

Books
 Kapunda and the Mary MacKillop Connection - Peter Swann
Curiosities of South Australia - Russell Smith
True Barossa Ghosts - Valerie J. Laughton
The History of Kapunda - Rob Charlton
History of the Catholic Church in South Australia -  F. Byrne

© Eidolon Paranormal

 

Investigations
Eidolon Paranormal has been investigating St Johns cemetery since the foundation of our paranormal group, but Allen has been visiting the site since the late 90's when he first heard about the ghost stories associated with it. Eidolon Paranormals investigators have all experienced strange phenomena at times in this location, much of which we have debunked as natural causes, abnormal influences and over-active imagination.
Almost all of South Australia's Paranormal teams have at some stage in their careers investigated this site, with varying results, unfortunately, some now choose to display information they know is not true, is misleading or is false, this raises a few concerns for us as we try to remove the images that are promoted to people via the misleading or inaccurate information.
We would like to see ALL paranormal teams posting the correct information, and abolishing the stories of rapes, teenage Mothers etc, as the evidence suggests these things never happened...
 We continue to return to the site in the hope of capturing some solid evidence, but the more we investigate, the more we believe natural explanations are the cause of evidence and personal experiences being reported. 

© 2007 - 2014 Allen Tiller

www.eidolonparanormal.com.au


St Johns History:The Reformatory in Newspapers

St Johns History
The Reformatory in Newspapers
Photo (c) Eidolon Paranormal: No use without prior written permission 


This page is intended to be a supplement to our "St. Johns Timeline" on another page on this website found Here:

Links and references will be given when available.

It is our aim to provide as much information as possible to the general public about this site and deliver an accurate representation of life and death at the reformatory. It is also our desire to expel many of the myths, rumours, inaccuracies and lies that have spread throughout Australia, and the world, on various forums and paranormal websites.

Our research has been extensive, with the purchasing of official government documents, such as birth and death certificates, and books written by members of the clergy who served at St Johns and Kapunda. 
 
Newspaper article dated 2002 - Photo (c) Eidolon Paranormal: No use without prior written permission


 Below we present a selection of newspaper articles detailing goings on at the Reformatory.

1897:

South Australian Register

  Thursday 21 January 1897


The Reformatory Schools - The Government is considering some proposed new arrangements in reference to the Reformatory School children. It is stated that the Magill institution for boys is becoming crowded, and that extra accommodation will soon be required, while the feeling exists that the Reformatory for Girls at Edwardstown is not answering its purpose to the extent desired!
The idea now receiving attention is that the girls should be removed from Edwardstown to some available public building in the country —possibly at Redruth— and that the structure at present occupied by them should be utilised for boys. An important offer made by Archbishop O'Reilly is also under consideration. The Archbishop asks that the Catholic girls in the Reformatory should be handed over to him, to be placed in an institution under the charge of three Sisters of St. Joseph.
Dr. O'Reily is ready to convert the St. John's Church and manse, situated near Kapunda, now disused. into an establishment for the purpose, and to comply with all the State requirements for the care of the girls. Of course he would expect to receive a proper allowance from the State for the maintenance of the girls.
 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/54486218?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189


GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
THURSDAY, JUNE 10. PROCLAMATIONS.
 Miss Mary O'Brien (Sister. Helena) as matron of-the Reformatory School for Girls of the Catholic Religion at St. John's,- near Kapunda.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/35081442?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189

From the New Zealand House of representatives 1897
 http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1897-II.2.2.3.9&e=-------10--1------0--

1898:

The Advertiser

  Tuesday 25 January 1898

STATE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.
The new arrangements for the housing of the children in the care of the State which were planned some time ago have now been carried into effect. The Protestant girls from the Edwardstown Girls' Reformatory have been transferred to the disused gaol at Redruth, which bas been specially fitted up for their use. The last contingent went up last week and are now settled there. The Catholic inmates of the institution were sent to St. John's Reformatory, near Kapunda, some months ago. The Edwardstown buildings are now used for the children from the Industrial School at Magill, which was be coming crowded, and will now be used solely for a reformatory school for boys
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/35103527?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189


The Advertiser
Wednesday 29 June 1898
Gawler June 1898
Two girls who absconded from the St. John's Reformatory at Kapunda were arrested here on Sunday and taken back to Kapunda yesterday
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29410663?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189


  Wednesday 13 July 1898
The monthly meeting of the State Children`s Council was held on Monday, July 11  Mr. Thomas Rhodes, president;
Present
Lady Bonython, Mrs. Brown, Miss Baker, Miss Clark Miss Spence,Dr. Robertson , Mr. E. W. Hawker, and the secretary, Mr. J. B. Whiting. The Secretary reported the admission of 12 children,
9 having been received at the Industrial School, Edwardstown,
1 at the Boys' Reformatory, Magill,
and 2 at St. John's Reformatory, Kapunda
 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29411995?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189

1899
The South Australian Register
  Saturday 21 October 1899


KAPUNDA, October 20.— At the last committee meeting of the Kapunda Institute it was decided to become affiliated with the Library Association of Australasia.— A bazaar in aid of St. Rose's' Church was opened in the Institute hall on Tuesday by Mr. Evan James the Mayor, and was continued during Wednesday and Thursday. The takings were in aid of liquidating a debt on the mission, and a substantial sum was realised. The display of fancy work was excellent, some by the Dominican nuns being very much admired, as also was that done by the girls from St. John's Reformatory. The flower and produce stalls were well patronised
 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/54845903?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=189


 1900:
The Advertiser
Friday 13 July 1900

ST. JOHN'S REFORMATORY, KAPUNDA.
Kapunda, July 12.
A few months ago extensive improvements were effected at St. John's Reformatory for Catholic girls, Kapunda. These have enabled the girls to be divided into first and second classes, according to conduct. This system has been attended with very satisfactory results. Since the school opened in May, 1897. 27 girls have been received; 12 of these have been sent to service, others have been sent home or else where, and there are now-11 inmates at the institution. The old Church of 'St. John, which is a landmark on the eastern side of the River Light, Was been thoroughly renovated, a portion of it now 'being used as a first-class dining-room for the girls, and the remainder has been appropriately furnished as a church.
A handsome stained glass window has been given by a few friends, and the Rev. Father Healy, of New Thebarton, has just sent up a valuable oil-painting of the Virgin of the Sacred Heart for the further decoration of the sanctuary. Mrs. R. 'Barr Smith of Adelaide, Was been amongst "The most generous friends of the institution . ArchBishop O'Riely has spent some 'hundreds of -pounds in the erection' of the reformatory premises. The State pays 10/ per week per child,but does  not contribute towards the cost of the building. With one exception, the whole of the girls sent to the institution have come from Adelaide.
The girls are thoroughly instructed   in all household duties, and the method adopted ensures every girl being made familiar with the complete routine. Some of the girls show special aptitude for artistic work, but,whilst "this is encouraged, the more useful of ordinary house work is not subordinated.
Religious instructions is daily imparted , as is also secular education, but the former is not made unnecessarily prominent. A good moral training is aimed at, and in this  direction the first three years' Work has been successful. Persons who have girls from the school in their service speak well of them.
 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36963247?searchTerm=st%20john%27s%20reformatory%20kapunda&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-decade=190|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-year=1900

1901:
 The Advertiser
4 September 1901

The number of inmates in the Reformatory for Roman Catholic Girls at Kapunda on July 1, 1900 was 11. During the year there were received - 6 girls newly committed, 4 absconders readmitted, and 3 girls transferred from the industrial school.
One girl was sent to service. The number in the school on June 30th was 19.
The accommodation is strained, rather, to provide for 19 girls.

The number would not be so high were it not for the difficulty of obtaining situations for the girls in Roman Catholic homes, for there are several girls - who could go out to service if places could be found for them. There has been very little sickness among the girls, who, on the whole, have behaved very well indeed. The institution is kept
in splendid order, and the inmates are well cared for, and receive-good, religious, moral, and practical training.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4854530?searchTerm=catholic%20%20Kapunda&searchLimits=l-decade=190 

 1902:

The Advertiser
Wednesday 12 March 1902

 State Children
A Council Meeting
The secretary reported that since the last meeting 20 children had been admitted to the Industrial School, 2 to the Girls' Reformatory, Redruth, 3 to the Boys' Reformatory, Magill, 1 to the, Boys' Reformatory, Brooklyn Park, and 1 to the Mount Barker Probationary School.
The dismissals had been 11 on service, 30 on subsidy, 9 absconded,
1 discharged from Girls' Reformatory, Kapunda, to Supreme Court for trial,
3 released on petition to parents, to hospital from Industrial School 2,
1 sent to Melbourne from Girls' Reformatory, Kapunda,
and 1 released term expired; 14 transfers had been made, 11 to service, 2 on subsidy, and 1 from service to Lying-in-Home.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4866343?searchTerm=sentenced%20to%20kapunda%20reformatory&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=190 




1903:
10th September - "The Register"
Reformatory for Catholic Girls—
On July 1 there were 17 inmates at the reformatory for Catholic girls at Kapunda. During the year there were 6 new admissions, 1 transfer from the Industrial School, 1 transfer from the Girls' Reformatory, Redruth, and 3 readmission's There were 14 discharges -  8 to service, 2 to Abbotsford Convent, 2 released 'term expired,' 1 to the lying-in-home, 1 absconder, who was re arrested and returned; leaving 14 inmates on June 30, 1903. This institution is excellently managed by the sister in charge, and its whole appearance is creditable to all concerned.   

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60007105?searchTerm=catholic%20%20Kapunda&searchLimits=l-decade=190

1906:

The Advertiser
Wednesday 15 August 1906
TIRED OF LIBERTY.
KAPUNDA, August 14.A. couple of girls ran away from St. John's Reformatory on Saturday evening. They were recaptured on Sunday at Freeling. They had a cold time of it on Saturday night, and took refuge in a chaff shed near Freeling. The freedom experienced was not what was anticipated, and they said they had intended to give themselves up if they were not overtaken on Monday.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5092767?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=190|||l-year=1906

1907:
The Advertiser
Wednesday 16 January 1907
Mrs. Crompton reported on a visit of some members of the council to St. John's Reformatory, at Kapunda. Everything had been found in good order, and cleanliness and quiet reigned. The visit was enjoyed, and the opinion was expressed that such visits tended to encourage the workers and the children. '
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5052798?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=190|||l-year=1907 


1909:
The Register
Thursday 24 June 1909
 
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57859125?searchTerm=carrie%20agnes%20kruger%20glenelg&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-title=89|||l-australian=y 

The Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday 12th October 1909

The Register
12th October 1909
THE ARCHBISHOP AND STATE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL.
The Archbishop of Adelaide (Most Rev. Dr. O'Reily) has just published in pamphlet form certain official correspondence which has named between himself and the State children's Council relative to the Fullarton Refuge and the Girls' Reformatory.
In a foreword the Archbishop states that the two institutions are managed by Catholic Sisters. 'These Sisters try to do their best for the helpless committed to their care. They are willing to go on doing their best. But if officialdom will insist on hampering them by busybody intermeddling they think it better to cease their striving and let officialdom do the work in its own way.'
The correspondence was opened on January 25, 1908, by the State Childrens Council complaining that twins had died in the Fullarton Refuge 'in consequence of improper feeding, if not of actual starvation,' and that the doctor's instructions and the rules of the department; had been neglected.
In the course of a long reply in denial of the accusation the Archbishop showed that the rules had not been for warded till five days after the deaths, that the doctor's instructions had never been disobeyed, and that everything humanly possible was done for the infants by the trained Sisters.
He notified that while the department had statutory power in relation to the lying-in-home, it had no legal control over the nursery. Subsequently, acting under legal advice, He refused admission to the latter branch to the council's inspectress, and stated that if a certain clause in the State Children's Amending Bill should be passed he would close the nursery altogether The clause was later amended in the Upper House, so as to exclude from its operation benevolent institutions.
During the past 14 years the debt of the Refuge has increased from £773 to £12,080. The other institution dealt with in the correspondence is the Kapunda Girls' Reformatory School, which 'has cost the Catholic body at the very least £2,700.' The State Children's Council alleged 'that a priest was residing at the reformatory, and that his mental condition was, to say the least unstable, while his physical frame is powerful.'
The Archbishop denied that the priest's frame was powerful, but admitted that mentally he was not robust. He still thought him equal to and fit for the light work he had to  perform at the Girls' Reformatory. However, he notified that the institution would be closed so far as he was concerned. As the result negotiations, he agreed to keep it open till the end of November next, and then to transfer the premises to the department for £1,000, which does not quite cover the amount of the debt on it.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/58290512?searchTerm=catholic%20%20Kapunda&searchLimits=l-decade=190 


 The Register

TRANSFERENCE OF STATE GIRLS.
KAPUNDA. November 29.
Mr. James Gray (Secretary to the State Children's Department), accompanied by three attendants, arrived this morning to supervise the final act in the transfer of the State girls from St. John's Roman Catholic Reformatory' to the institution at Redruth.
They drove out to St. John's, which is three miles from the town, in three cabs, and into these vehicles the 11 inmates and their belongings were packed . From the reformatory they were driven straight to Tarlee, where a special carriage on a goods train was met. They were thus taken to Burra, and from the railway station there will be conveyed in traps to Redruth. Everything was carried out with as much secrecy as possible. To-morrow Sister Berchmans and her two assistants will return to the community house at Kensington, and the work of dismantling the place will begin in order that the arrangements for the auction sale on December 8 may be carried out.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57868244?searchTerm=catholic%20%20Kapunda&searchLimits=l-decade=190 

1910:

The Register
Friday 18 February 1910


Abolishing A Reformatory
There follows from Dr. H.H.E. Russell, of Unley, a report on the health of the inmates of the Fullarton Refuge during 1909. It states that illness has been very slight, and pays a tribute to the work and oversight of the Sisters in charge. Following documents deal with the question of the official closing of the Kapunda Reformatory. His Grace comments:— 'I objected to the word 'abolish' in connection with that closing. In my solicitors opinion, however, my objection did not hold. The word 'abolish' is clumsy and crude, and to my view rude; but the statute prescribes its use. and in that use I had, whether I willed or no, to at acquiesce. My objections to the reasons proposed to be alleged for the abolishing are stronger, and in my objections my solicitors concur. Even The Government Gazette, despite all its dignity, is not above the moral law. and ought, as a rule, to try and be truthful.' The first document in the series is from Mr. Gray to the Chief Secretary (of which the Archbishop was forwarded a .copy). Mr. Gray writes:— 'Owing to circumstances over which the State Children's Council has no control, and which are known to the Chief Secretary, the Girls' Reformatory at St. John's, near Kapunda, has been closed, and the inmates have been transferred to the Reformatory at Redruth. In view of these facts the council is dissatisfied with the present condition of the school, it being empty and in process of dismantling. I am, therefore, to ask that the proclamation of His Excellency the Governor may issue abolishing the Reformatory School at .St. Johns' To this the Archbishop replies, objecting to the terms set forth. Mr. Gray's answer to this is that the terms were merely those required by the law. Correspondence here follows between His Grace and his solicitors, who uphold the setting. forth of the terms, but dimmed with the Secretary of the State Children's Council in his reading of the law involved. The suggestion of the Archbishop's lawyers is that:— 'The proper course is for the true facts to be stated in the proclamation—namely, that for reasons sufficient to His Grace the institution has been closed against the reception of State children. and therefore the necessity for the control and supervision of The State Children's Council no longer exists. His Excellency may, then, issue a proclamation abolishing the Reformatory as a reformatory for the reception, detention, education, employment, training, and reformation of State children.' Mr. Gray's further response is that he would be pleased to have the proclamation so issued upon the Chief Secretary's consent. From a member of the State Children's Council there is included a letter, in which it is regretted that the law demands the use of the word 'dissatisfied.' On the contrary. Mr. Gray had already written in September, 1909. that 'the council has a profound appreciation of the work done at St. John's Reformatory.'
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60161693?searchTerm=reformatory%20kapunda%20st.%20john%27s&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-category=Article|||l-australian=y|||l-decade=191 

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