Lot 128 Dα

Provenienz

Collected in the late 19th century by Reverend Isaac Rooney (1843-1931)
Arthur Palmer, Brisbane

Isaac Rooney migrated to Australia from County Tyrone aged six with his parents and they settled in Melbourne. He trained for the ministry at Horton College, Tasmania, and in 1865 was sent to be a missionary in Fiji. He spent fifteen years in Fiji, and eight in the Bismarck Archipelago. He returned to Australia in 1889.