St Nicholas – East Tamworth
Parish's Name St Nicholas’, Tamworth Church's in Parish Tamworth: St Nicholas’ (1853) North Tamworth: St Mary’s Church's Address Marius Street, Tamworth Parish Established 1864 Priests in Parish Year Priest Year Priest 1853 Fr Timothy McCarthy 1873 W P Kerwick 1874 Dennis English 1875 Martin Murray & Patrick D Ryan 1876 Andrew J McCarthy 1877 G Bourke 1880 Tomas Darcy, J F Hearne & John A Ryan 1881 Thomas...
School EstablishedSt Nicholas’ PrimarySt DominicsChristian Brothers’ College1972McCarthy Catholic Senior High (8/1973 formally recognised by Educ. Dept. Present site 6/1975)11/10/1981Our Lady of the Rosary College1939St Mary’s Infants1988St Mary’s Oxley Vale (present site)2000McCarthy Catholic Senior and Our Lady of the Rosary...
Religious Communities throughout the Parish’s history:The arrival of the Dominican Sisters in Tamworth in January, 1876.On Saturday, 8th June, 1867, there set out from St Mary’s Convent, Kingstown, Ireland, eight Dominican Sisters, who, at the request of Bishop James...
