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- Thomas Poynton was born on 1802 and Mary Kennedy (her Madan name) was born on 1812 Thomas was born in Bavllivor, County Meath, Ireland. Mary was born in Sydney but had a Irish Catholic background
- In 1822 Thomas Poynton was transported to Sydney were he went on to met Mary and they married in 1828
- They later moved to NZ where they had three children, two girls and a boy. Because of Mary's very strong faith and the fact there were no Catholic priest's Mary Poynton indulged in the dangerous journey to Sydney to get her first two children baptized
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- With the growing number of Catholics in NZ Thomas Poynton would write to Bishop Polding in Sydney and Rome in the hopes of a priest. Every Sunday He would read out prayers of the mass and instruct other Pakeha and Maori Catholics from the books he had received from bishop
- Some Catholics in Aotearoa went to Sydney for other reasons of Faith such as the time in 1835 when Thomas Cassidy of Waima took his partner to be married and have their first baby baptised. In the same year two young Maori people were sent to Sydney by there chiefs to be instructed in the catholic faith and trained as catechists
- In response to the growing number of Catholics in NZ -around fifty- Rome sent a Brother, Priest and Bishop Pompallier. When Bishop Pompallier arrived at Totara Point in the Hokianga in the January of 1838, he celebrated his first Mass in Thomas and Mary Poynton's living room. Hearing that the Bishop had landed as many Hokianga Catholics as humanly possible squeezed into the small room for mass as others joined outside the windows in prayer
- Thomas Poynton was one of the leading people to introduce the Catholic church to the Moari and NZ people.
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