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Georgiana Moore was born in Dublin of Protestant parents on March 20, 1814, the daughter of George and Catherine Moore. Her father died in 1817, and "the family continued Protestant until 1823, when Mrs. Moore and her children [were] received into the Catholic Church" (Carroll, Leaves 2:37).
On August 23, 1844, Georgiana wrote that she *"became acquainted"* with Catherine McAuley in September 1828 and that she *"went to reside in Baggot Street on the 13th October."* Mary Bertrand Degnan says that Georgiana, then about fourteen years old, *"came to Baggot Street in answer to a call for a governess"* for Catherine's young niece, Catherine Macauley, and her adopted cousin, Teresa Byrn, ages nine and seven (75). Georgiana left Baggot Street temporarily in 1829, evidently in poor health. However, she returned on June 10, 1830, and remained there until she departed, at the age of twenty-three, to become the first superior of the Mercy community in Cork. Her sister, Clare Augustine Moore, writing to Bermondsey on July 7, 1875, says of her: "She entered. . . when she was little more than sixteen, not without a severe mental struggle. How she lived so long is wonderful for her lungs were diseased when she was fourteen and continued so for many years after, I know, perhaps to the last."...
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