My Gt Gt Grandmother, Catherine O'CONNOR was born abt 1821 in Bandon, Co. Cork.
She married [I don't know where!] John WATSON, a soldier in The Royal Regiment
[from West Norfolk,] in about 1853.
He was probably stationed at the Garrison in Bandon at the time - but I still have to find
John's military records.
According to family legend, their daughter, my Gt Grandmother, Catherine WATSON, was
bn in 1857 on a homeward-bound troopship from India, off Gibralter.
This 2nd Catherine married my Gt Grandfather, Louis Henry PALMER,
in Wisbech, Cambs, UK, on 11 March 1883.
John & Catherine's other 2 children, John & William, both died young and are
buried at Wretton, West Norfolk.
Catherine O'CONNOR died 2 July 1897 either in Wisbech, Cambs, or Wretton, West Norfolk.
I still have to get her death registration details and certificate.
I'm afraid I know nothing else about Catherine O'Connor at the moment - not even if she had siblings!
John & Catherine's children are:
John
born
9 January 1854
died
5 September 1862
Catherine
born
2 July 1857
died
19 November 1940
William
born
13 Nov. 1859
died [of consumption]
17 December 1885
All these dates are from Catherine Watson PALMER's bible.
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