Connelly, Mother Cornelia (born Cornelia Augusta Peacock) (1809-1879)

US Catholic religious foundress. She founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, moving to England to begin its work in 1846. The order also started schools in the USA, which she visited.

She was born in Philadelphia. She converted to Catholicism in 1835, as did her husband, an Episcopalian priest. They separated; he became a Catholic priest in 1845. Her husband later renounced his conversion and sought unsuccessfully to regain marital rights.