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          Frayne, Mother Ursula

          (1816 – 1885)
          • Born 5 October 1816, Dublin, , Ireland
          • Died 9 June 1885, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
          • Occupation Educator, Religious Leader, Religious Sister
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          In 1845, Ursula Frayne, along with five other Sisters of Mercy and one postulant, sailed for Western Australia with the goal, among other things, of establishing the first Mercy school in Australia.

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          5. This they did on 2 February, 1846, with planks, bricks and packing cases as furniture. Instead of the 4,000 children they were promised when they left Ireland, only one child turned up for school on the day it opened. By August, however, enrolments stood at 100.

          In 1849 she opened the first secondary school in Western Australia, a ‘select’ fee-paying school catering for an almost exclusively non-Catholic c