Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Vanity to History

I found two other Catherine Pues' that have gone before me.

The first married Charles Diaper of Romsey, a labourer in Winchester, Hampshire on 5th March, 1724.

The second (Catherine Mary Pue) was born in Ireland about 1851. In 1876 (at the age of about 25) she married James Bushen, who was approximately 5 years her junior. James was a Grocers Assistant and he and Catherine settled in Barnstaple. Catherine's older sister, Elizabeth, lived with them, and they also rented out rooms to lodgers. They had one son, Thomas, born about 3 years later. James died in 1888 aged only 32. After he died, Catherine continued to rent out rooms to lodgers. Her son Thomas became a silversmith. Catherine did not marry again and died after 1901.