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Fr JÉRÔME GRANGE, aged 35 (on arrival in New Zealand in Group VI in 1842).

He remained at Kororareka till October 1842 when Pompallier sent him to Pea in Tongatapu on the Sancta Maria which was on its way to Valparaiso to be sold. His health deteriorated there and he was uplifted April 1846 to convalesce in Sydney. A year later he went to New Caledonia where he was seriously wounded in the sacking of the Balade mission station in July 1847. He convalesced in Sydney and was repatriated to France in 1848. He died as chaplain to the Marist Brothers' school at Saint Paul Trois Chateaux on 23 June 1852, aged 45, and is buried there.

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