in Brisbane. In 1873, Gorry was appointed as the first Superior of the new foundation in Rockhampton. The sisters arrived on 4 August 1873. Mother Vincent Whitty led the group consisting of Mother Mary de Sales, Sisters M. Xavier, Sister M. Benigna, and three other sisters. A cottage in Kent St became their first Convent. Mother Vincent remained with them until December 1873. They established a Non-Vested school where the sisters teaching the State Government approved curriculum received a government stipend but were not allowed to teach religion. Sister Mary de Sales and another Sister went to the school after-hours to give religious instruction. In 1880, the Queensland government withdrew the payment of teaching salaries for Sisters. To ensure some income, a select class was added to the Kent St School where fee-paying students received a broader education than the basic state primary curriculum. Subjects such as music, languages, fine art and needlework were added to the curriculum. Gorry was well prepared for teaching such subjects as this was the type of education she had received from the Benedictine nuns in Sydney. In May 1882, when Rockhampton was made a separate diocese, the Sisters of Mercy working in Rockhampton were given the choice of remaining there and forming a new congregation of Sisters of Mercy or of returning to their original congregation in Brisbane. Gorry chose to return to the Brisbane Congregation. Gorry was appointed Superior of Dalby Convent in 1884. In 1889, she was appointed Superior of the Maryborough Convent but returned to Brisbane two years later. She continued to teach until her death from a stroke in 1891, aged 47, at All Hallows' Convent, Brisbane. Legacy Sister Jane Gorry (RSM) has a House named after her at both St Mary's College (Ipswich) and the All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. A park in Augustine Heights has also been named in her honour by the Ipswich City Council. References 1844 births 1891 deaths Australian schoolteachers Sisters of Mercy 19th-century Australian Roman Catholic nuns