Records of the Catholic Mission, Wallis Island, 1848-1966 (inclusive) [microform].

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Records of the Catholic Mission, Wallis Island, 1848-1966 (inclusive) [microform].

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The collection comprises correspondence with administration, 1890-1962; correspondence and documentation on the political statutes of Wallis and Futuna,1848-1962; correspondence with French High Commissioner, Noumea, New Caledonia, 1936-1966; correspondence and financial statements of Lepers' Trust Board, 1946-1961; diaries of Bishop Poncet, 1924-1947; notes on the mission by Fr. Bazin; and genealogies of Wallisian families dating from 1842, compiled by Fr. Henquel.

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Catholic Church

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Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

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Henquel, Joseph.

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Poncet, Alexandre

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Bazin, Jean-Marie.

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Catholic Mission, Wallis Island.

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The Catholic Mission was established on Wallis Island in 1837 by Father (later) Bishop Pierre Bataillon and Brother Joseph-Xavier Luzy, members of the Society of Mary. Father Jean-Marie Bazin was superior of the mission from 1874-1896. He then returned to France where he died in 1947. Father Joseph Henquel was a missionary in Samoa from 1879 to 1896, then transferred to Wallis Island where he remained until his death in 1924. He was a man of wide interests, b...