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McGuigan worked in New South Wales as a schoolteacher from 1864 to 1869. Her teaching proficiency was recognised early and while working at the
Victoria Street school, which had 173 girls and 68 boys, she became headmistress in 1869. She worked as school principal from 1869 to 1882. She applied to
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and a Gothic marble altar to the Mother House chapel. Eighteen convents, six hospitals including two private hospitals and the
Hospice for the Dying, members of colleges, high schools and primary schools were all represented at the celebrations. On 1 November 2018, the newly opened Sr Francis
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Francis also oversaw an extensive building campaign. This included the 1882 construction of the Sisters of Charity residence, the 1888 and 1892 additions of new wings to St Vincent's Hospital, the 1886 construction of St Joseph's Hospital for consumptives at
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Australian-born grazier John McGuigan, and his wife Ellen, nÊe Foran. Brigid and her older sister Mary were sent as boarders to the Convent of the Presentation of the Virgin, Subiaco in
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Dorothy Josephine Bruton and Mother Mary Berchmans Daly. Over the next 36 years of her career, over 20 schools were staffed or established by the Sisters of Charity.
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