ABBREVIATIONS

ARCHBP Archbishop

ABD Aberdeen

AI Advocate (Catholic Newspaper) Index of Melbourne

AUS Australia

BA Bachelor of Arts

BH Broken Hill

B HILL Broken Hill

BI Birth Index for the relevant State/Colony.

BIF " " " " " " " gave the father’s name.

BIFC The State birth index for the relevant nun gave the father’s Christian name

BIFS The State birth index for the relevant nun gave the father’s surname

BIM Birth Index for the relevant State/Colony gave the mother’s maiden name.

BIMC The State birth index for the relevant nun gave the mother’s Christian name.

BIMS The State birth index for the relevant nun gave the mother’s maiden name

BIP Birth Index for the relevant State/Colony gave the parents’ name.

BP Bishop

BR Brother

CARGEEG Cargeeg, George-The Rebel of Glenmalure; Story of Michael O’Dwyer,

the Wicklow Chieftan and his descendents.

CFC Christian Brothers (formerly of Ireland)

CN Cousin

CSB Brigidine Sisters

CSSR Redemptorist Priests

DI Death Index for the relevant State/Colony.

DIF Death Index for the relevant State/Colony gave the father’s name.

DIM " " " " " " " " " mother’s maiden name.

DIMC The State death index for the relevant nun gave the mother’s Christian name.

DIFC The State death index for the relevant nun gave the father’s Christian name.

DIFS The State death index for the relevant nun gave the father’s surname.

DIMS The State death index for the relevant nun gave the mother’s maiden name.

DIP Death Index for the relevant State/Colony gave the parents’ name

ENG England

FCJ Faithful Companion of Jesus.

FDNSC Our Lady of Sacred Heart Sisters (OLSH).

FMS Marist Brothers

FR Father

FSC De La Salle Brothers

GLS Gloucestershire.

HD Home Duties

H Duties Home Duties

IBVM Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary. (Loreto)

IGI International Genealogical Index.

INV Inverness.

IOW Isle of Wight

IRE Ireland

LCM Little Company of Mary

LEI Leicestershire

LIM Limerick

LIN Lincolnshire

LSP Little Sisters of the Poor

MA Master of Arts

MELB Melbourne

MGC Melbourne General Cemetery

MSC Sacred Heart Fathers

MIM Marriage Index gave mother’s name

NBL Northumberland

NCC Northcote Convent Cemetery

NDS Sion Sisters

NTT Nottingham

NS Northern Suburbs Cemetery, Epping, Sydney

NSW New South Wales

NSWBI New South Wales Birth Index

NSWCDI New South Wales Computer Index. This valuable data base from the

Registrar of BDM provides cross referencing in order to find parents’

names via typing in "SISTER" for given name or surname and obtaining

the year and reference number.

NSWDI New South Wales Death Index

NSWDCI " " " " " from computer disc "Pioneers index" 1788-1945

O.CARM Carmelite Fathers

NZ New Zealand

OCD Carmelites

OFM Franciscan friar

OLN Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor

O’Neill, G O’Neill, Fr. George. The Life of Rev. Julian Edmund Tenison Woods. Sydney

1929.

OP Dominican

OSA Augustinians

OS Overseas

OSB Benedictine

OSC Poor Clares

OSU Ursuline Sisters

POB O’Brien M.M. Mother Mary Patricia O’Neill. Melbourne 1976

PON O’Brien M.M. Mother Mary Patricia O’Neill. Melbourne 1976

PSN Poor Sisters of Nazareth

Q Queensland

RGS Good Shepherd Sisters

RNDM Our Lady of the Missions Sisters

RPA Perpetual Adoration Sisters

RSC Sister of Charity

RSJ Sister of St. Joseph

RSM Sister of Mercy

SA South Australia

SAJA South Australian Sisters of St. Joseph Archives, Adelaide.

SGS Good Samaritan Sisters

SJ Jesuit

SJA St. Joseph of Apparition Sisters

SJC St. Joseph of Cluny Sisters

SM Marist

SMSM Marist Missionary Sisters

SR Sister

STS Staffordshire

SYD Sydney

TAS Tasmania

TASBI Tasmanian Birth Index

TASDI " Death "

TIP Co. Tipperary

UK United Kingdom

USA United States of America

VBI Victorian Birth Index

VDI Victorian Death Index

VIC Victoria

WA Western Australia

WAR Warwickshire

WTC West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide