100 - Rev Fr Thomas Martin Scanlan - Welby, NSW
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S 34° 26.126 E 150° 25.714
56H E 263723 N 6186562
The Rev Fr Thomas Martin Scanlan died in his 101st year & is buried in the Welby Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMX46G
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/24/2017
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I located a newsletter from the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong in an Irish ancestry website rootsweb ancestry (
visit link) that outlined the Rev Father's life as:
From the Newsletter of the Catholic Diocese of Woollongong (NSW, Australia) October 2006
"Rest in Peace
Fr. Thomas Martin SCANLAN 1905-2006
Fr. Thomas Scanlan was born on 10 November 1905 in the small farming village of Ballyhannon, Quin, County CLARE, the second youngest child in a family of ten to John and Mary Scanlan (nee McGrath)
He attended the local National School and St. Flannan's Secondary College, Ennis. On completing his secondary education Tom went on to All Hallows College, Dublin, to study for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Sydney. His older brother, John, was also a seminarian at the same time but he studies at St. John's College, Waterford, for the Diocese of Bathurst. Both brothers were ordained to the priesthood at St. John's College, Waterford, on 19 June 1930.
Fr. Tom was first to leave, arriving in Australia in October, 1930. The Scanlan family also had a daughter who was a Religious Sister with the St. John of God Order in Western Australia. ....
Fr. Tom Scanlan died peacefully at the Abbey (Nursing Home, Mittagong, NSW) on 8 September 2006 in his 101st year, and the 77th of his priesthood. He is buried at Welby Cemetery near Mittagong. May he rest in peace."