Category: Hanson

Catherine Brady is my (Greg Curran) 3rd great-grandmother (maternal side).

• 1810 – 1840 (approx) Lavey, County Cavan, Ireland.
• 1840 – 1890 Hanson, Mintaro, South Australia

Catherine was born in 1810 in Lavey, County Cavan, Ireland. She is the daughter of Thomas Brady (1771-1820) and Bridget Smith (1778-?)

1821 – Catherine is listed as a Spinner in Lavey, in the Census (Reference: Glenda Hocking – No Ordinary Life – Samuel Maguire (2006), Hocking, Blackwood: 191)

Catherine is living with her family in the Townland: Lattagloglan (nearest town: Ballyjamesduff & nearest village: Cross Keys)

Her family are living in a 1 storey house on 5 acres of land with:

• Her father – Thomas, 50 years (Farmer)
• Her mother – Bridget, 43 years (Wife)
• Her siblings, Michael, 21 years (Weaver), Daniel, 16 years (Weaver), John, 8 years and Peter, 5 years.
  (Reference: Glenda Hocking – No Ordinary Life – Samuel Maguire (2006), Hocking, Blackwood: 191)

First  Marriage

Catherine married Phillip Maguire in 1827. She was 17 and he was 59. His first wife (unknown) whom he had 7 children with, died the previous year.

Catherine and Phillip had two more children: Bridget Maguire (1828-1922) and Mary (1835-1906), my maternal great, great grandmother.

Phillip died in 1839 in Lavey, Ireland.

Second Marriage

Catherine remarried in 1841 to Patrick Weathers (1816-1876) in Lavey, County Cavan, Ireland. They emigrated around this time to Australia, travelling as Cabin Passengers.

Catherine and Patrick lived most of their lives in the Mintaro area of South Australia, with Patrick being a farmer.

Their children were Anne (1842-1925), Catherine (1845-1871), John Joseph (1850-1899), Daniel (1852-1889), Margaret Magdalene (1856-1941), and Patrick (1859-1899).

Patrick Weathers died of stomach cancer on 23 December, 1876 at Wackai Belt, Clare, South Australia. He was 60 years old.

Catherine died on 21 May, 1890 of Senile Decay and Influenza at Hanson, Mintaro. She is buried with Patrick Weathers in the Roman Catholic section of Mintaro Cemetery, South Australia.