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Latest revision as of 15:06, 28 March 2022

From THE FIRST WAVE OF FRENCH MARISTS by Michael O'Meeghan SM, 2008, 17.


Br CLAUDE-MARIE (Jean-Claude) BERTRAND, aged 26 (on arrival in New Zealand in Group IV on 11 Jul 1840).


His first four years were shared between Hokianga and Kororareka. In 1845 he went to Opotiki for two years, and then to the Kaipara mission till Garin was withdrawn from there. Then he was back at Hokianga until 1850 when he went to Wellington with the Viard Marist exodus. Within a week he was on his way to Nelson with Garin. Apart from a two-year break at Napier he spent his next 39 years there helping with Garin's various school and orphanage projects. He died on 5 November 1893, touching 80, and is buried in Whakapuaka cemetery alongside Garin's memorial chapel.
Grave of Br Claude-Marie


Research by Elizabeth Charlton:


Born: 21/11/1813 St-Sauveur-en-rue, Loire

Died: 5/11/1893 Nelson

Buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson, Grave alongside St Michael's Memorial Chapel


  • 8350511 entered the Hermitage as novice, knows how to read and write OFM2 doc 145
  • 18350726 received habit OFM3 doc 497
  • 18350924 secret vows OFM3 doc 569
  • 18361010 perpetual profession OFM3 doc 576
  • 1835-1839 St Didier sur Rochefort / Pelussin Ronzon p.42
  • 1839 St Chamond Foundation Director of Orphanage OFM2 doc 270 / OFM3 doc 683


  • 18400210 left Brest
  • 18400711 arrive Bay of Islands on Aube from Brest
  • 18400803-184208 Hokianga - kitchen / gardens Ronzon p.46
  • 184209-184308 Hokianga LRO doc 234 / 317
  • 18420531-184306 mission circuit with Jean Lampila Ronzon p.51
  • 18430821-18431024 Te Rangi (Hokianga) LO doc 050 / Ronzon p.52
  • 184412-18450211 Bay of Islands LRO doc 357 / LO doc 061
  • 18450309-18450318 Tauranga retreat Ronzon p.54
  • 1847 Kaipara with Garin Ronzon p.45 / Simmons
  • 1848 likely Hokianga
  • 18500507 to Nelson on Lady Nugent from Wellington
  • 18500509 landed in Nelson
  • 1865 still cooking Poupinel doc 933 / will stay in Nelson if no longer cooking Poupinel doc 943
  • 187908-188110 Napier with Marist Brothers DNM 2/33
  • 18811011 returned to Nelson


The Brothers of the first wave of Missionaries


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