Catherine McMahon

Description:

This meticulously researched story of Catherine McMahon covers her life before and after she became a convict in Van Diemen's Land. The lives of her two husbands are also covered, her first husband John Copley and her second husband Thomas May. Both men were also convicts.

subjects: Marriage,  Women prisoners,  Biography,  Prisoners,  Penal colonies,  History,  Women ex-convicts,  Women pioneers,  Irish,  Australia, biography,  Australia, history,  Irish, australia

People: Catherine McMahon (1827-1906)

Places: Australia,  Tasmania

Times: 19th century