Date of Conviction: 29/03/1804

Age at Conviction: 15

Crime Convicted of: House Breaking With Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Assizes (held at Lancaster Castle)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: William Pitt

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 10/08/1805

Arrival Date: 11/04/1806

Biography: Catherine had broken into and burgled the house of James Hulme at Manchester, stealing a large quantity of clothing. She left Lancaster Castle in the company of eight other female convicts in July and they were delivered to Spithead to board the ship.

In New South Wales she was indentured to Isaac Peyton (ship- Barwell) in 1806 but was described as a concubine; Peyton had already had a number of relationships and children with different convict women. By 1814 she was free by servitude and was living with de-facto husband William Mason (ship- Boddingtons) and his three children from his previous marriage (he was widowed around 1809) at his farm in Pitt Town. Catherine and William were living at Pitt Town where she died in 1830, aged around 40/41.