Sisters looking for memorabilia

From the Maitland Mercury report:
On January 13, 1883, a small group of nuns set off from their new home in Singleton to begin work in the village of Morpeth.

Here the Sisters of Mercy began their long association with Maitland and the continuation of an order known in their native land of Ireland as the ‘walking nuns’.

 

“On January 13 next year it will be 130 years since a small group of nuns came to Morpeth from Singleton,” Morpeth nun Sister Bernadette Mills said. “There were about six or seven pioneers and from them congregations were formed at Gunnedah, Murrurundi, Raymond Terrace, Muswellbrook and Morpeth.”
In the years that followed nuns were sent to East Maitland and also to Monte Pio to work at both the orphanage and the junior secondary school.

Full article available at Maitland Mercury, Oct. 15, 2012.