Name: Catherine/Cathrine Agnes Gray nee Dillon, possibly Doyle
Date and place of birth: 1 September 1818 Liverpool (according “Heber” shipping record)
Names of parents: Patrick Dillon (Farrier) (Shipping & Marriage) and Ellen Hanlan (shipping)
Date and place of baptism: Sept/Oct 1818 RC Liverpool (shipping) Have not been able to find baptism record. Quite possibly she had a sister Mary Ann who was marriage witness.
Marriages: 8 Nov 1838 C of E Prestwich, Lancaster to Thomas Gray – a letter print prep or compositor (have cert).
Possible 2nd Marriage 1857 Parramatta NSW No 2336 to Michael Doyle (no cert)
Occupation: Cotton Winder (shipping)
Addresses: At marriage Nov. 1838 Thomas Gray’s address was Market Place, Oldham, Lancashire. They arrived Sydney, NSW, Australia on 28 Feb 1839. Son Thomas James Gray born 11 Aug 1839, baptised C of E Sydney they were living Kent St, Sydney and again when Mary Jane born 1841. Thomas Sen. died 11 Nov 1856 in a Sydney Infirmary of DTs. Obviously estranged from family, as another compositer supplied info, he knew Thomas was married and had a daughter Mary Jane, but nothing else except occupation compositor. Date, place and cause of death: Possible Death of Catherine Doyle aged 50 in Sydney in 1869 No. 249 (No. cert)
Date and place of burial: Unknown possibly 1869 Sydney
Details of will: Unlikely
Memorial inscription: Unlikely