Many thanks to all who help me locate my missing nun. It is amazing what you find with the miss spelling, wrong dates and the order in which her names are used. Thank you all very much for your help. Pam New Zealand Herald 15 January 1896 Sister Mary Magdalen Maney, who died at the Thorndon Convent, Wellington, on Friday last, came to the colony in 1851, and at the age of 16 devoted herself to the cause of the education of Maori girls, for whom Governor Grey had built the Providence attached to the Convent. She spent 45 years in the service of like good works in St. Mary's Convent, having stood high in the estimation of the late Bishop Viard, whom she attended on his deathbed. She will be long regretted by the Catholics of Wellington, among whom are many mothers of families who found in her an able instructress in youth and a friend and adviser in their late years. Deceased was buried at Karori, a large assemblage following her to the grave, where the Very Rev. Father Dawson read the burial service.