The Sisters of Mercy, Gunnedah were responsible for the administration of St Patrick's Orphanage (later called St Patrick's Home and St Patrick's Homes) Armidale, 1919-84. In December 2011 the Sisters of Mercy, Gunnedah Congregation became part of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Australia and Papua New Guinea.
1887 - 2011 Sisters of Mercy, Gunnedah Congregation
2011 - Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Gunnedah sisters gift their heritage to community', in Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, 21 May 2009, https://web.archive.org/web/20220521120545/https://institute.mercy.org.au/gunnedah-sisters-gift-their-heritage-to-community/; Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia, 2011, http://institute.mercy.org.au/; Institute of Sisters of Mercy in Australia and Papua New Guinea: History, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, https://mercy.org.au/stories/beginning-with-catherine-mcauley/; Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
Prepared by: Melissa Downing and Naomi Parry
Created: 8 March 2011, Last modified: 19 September 2014