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Orphan Number: 4986
Orphan: Catherine SMITH
Mother:DOYLE, Mary
Father:SMITH, John
Mother's ship:Arabian
Father's ship:
Age when admitted:11yrs 3mths
Date admitted:9 Feb 1863
Date discharged:26 Feb 1863
Institution(s):Queens Orphan School
Discharged to: mother
Remarks: father in New Zealand
References: SWD26/6, 28


This orphan has been claimed by: Margaret Whitmore



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This orphan has been claimed by: Grant Aldridge

Catherine was my father's great grandmother. Catherine and her siblings came to New Zealand with their mother (Mary nee Doyle) after leaving the Orphan School.
(Their father, John Smith, had abandoned the family and their mother Mary went to track him down.)

They settled in the Otago region of the South Island.

I am still researching to try and find out more about Catherine, but she seems to have got into some minor legal troubles with her mother in New Zealand.

She married twice. She had six children with her first husband Alfred Perry, but he died in 1876.

She then married William Dickey in 1879 and had 8 more children.

Her daughter Jane Perry was my dad's grandmother

Catherine died in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1930 at the aged of 78. She is buried in Bromley Cemetery.



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