About Cecilia Thackaberry
Lived 1909 – 1969 (aged 59–60). Cecilia Thackaberry was a Nigerian missionary and nun.
Sister Cecilia Thackaberry, PBVM (née Sarah Agnes Thackaberry; 7 July 1909 – September 1969) was an Irish nun with the Presentation Sisters who was killed in Nigeria while performing relief work during the Nigerian Civil War.
Born in Dublin, she attended the Presentation Sisters school in Warrenmount and later studied with the Loreto Sisters in St Stephen's Green. In November 1933, she entered the Presentation Order in Buxton. In the intervening years up to 1965, she taught and acted as Novice Mistress in various locations throughout England, including Presentation Convent, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. In 1939, she was living and teaching in the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.
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Who was Cecilia Thackaberry?
Irish nun and missionary
When was Cecilia Thackaberry born?
Cecilia Thackaberry was born on 7 July 1909.
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Cecilia Thackaberry died in 1969.
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Cecilia Thackaberry was a missionary and nun.
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Cecilia Thackaberry was Nigerian.
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