Born: August 1648, Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 16 August 1672 - Nuevo Reino Mission : COL, ECU, VEN (NEU REI)
Final Vows: 02 February 1697
Died: 19 May 1672, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia - Nuevo Reino Mission : COL, ECU, VEN (NEU REI)

◆ Fr John MacErlean SJ :
1672-1721 Did the work of a Brother at the Colleges of Santa Fé de Bogotá and Pamplona, Colombia

◆ James B Stephenson SJ Menologies 1973
Brother Thomas Lewis 1648-1721
Br Thomas Lewis was born in Drogheda in 1648 and entered the Society in Nuevo Reina in 1672. Nuevo Reina was a Province embracing the modern South American States of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
He carried out his duties in the Colleges of Santa Fe and Pamplona. He died at Santa Fe in 1721.

Born: 1561, Scotland
Entered: 1585, Angliae Province (ANG)
Died: 03 November 1635, Drogheda, County Louth

In 1626 Catalogue

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ:
Unclear as to how he became involved in the Irish Mission, but he was living in Ireland in 1629 and described as sacristan and living at Dublin and/or Drogheda, where he died November 1625.

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
MARTIN, WILLIAM. All that I can learn of him is from a letter of F. James Gordon (Huntly), dated Bourdeaux, 11th March, 1611. “I have heard, that the Earl of Tyrone of Ireland, who lives at Rome, complains much of our brother William Martin; therefore I have taken care that William should write to him, and vindicate himself”.

Born: 1610: Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 1641: Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)
Died: 24 August 1660: Bergara College, Gipuzkoa, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)

1642 A Novice coadjutor at Villagarcía Age 32
1645 At Salamanca College “adjutor procuratoris”
1649 In Spain
1651 At Burgos, companion of the Procurator
1658 At Bergara College CAST

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
His letters of 1647 and 1651 are at Salamanca

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ ;
After First Vows at Villagarcía he was Sent as assistant to the Procurator at the Royal College Salamanca, and over the next fifteen years he held similar posts at Burgos and lastly Vergara (Bergara), where he died 24 August 1660