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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]
The Rev. James Francis Macmanus
The Rev. James Francis Macmanus, Curate of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, in the year 1876. He was educated at St. Mary's Seminary, Moyne, County Longford, and at St. Patrick's College, at Thurles, in County Tipperary. He was ordained in June, 1903, and arrived in New Plymouth in November of that year, as assistant priest to Dean McKenna.