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Catherine SHEEDY (1828 - 1901)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
John COPPIN (1859 - 1905) Margaret Ann COPPIN (1861 - ) Ellen COPPIN (1863 - 1957) George COPPIN (1866 - ) Thomas William COPPIN (1868 - 1959) Laura COPPIN (1871 - 1927) Albert Henry COPPIN (1873 - 1931)	Catherine SHEEDY (1828 - 1901) + John COPPIN (1840 - 1903)

b. abt 1828 at Ballina, Co Tipperary, Ireland

m. 07 Jan 1859 John COPPIN (1840 - 1903) at Balmain, New South Wales, Australia

d. 27 May 1901 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 73

Near Relatives of Catherine SHEEDY (1828 - 1901)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	Thomas COPPIN
Mother in Law	Ann TOMBLING TOMLIN
Self	Catherine SHEEDY	abt 1828	Ballina, Co Tipperary, Ireland	27 May 1901	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	73
Husband	John COPPIN	01 Jun 1840	Langley, Kent, England	22 Nov 1903	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	63
Son	John COPPIN	1859	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1905	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	46
Daughter	Margaret Ann COPPIN	1861	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Daughter	Ellen COPPIN	1863	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	17 Sep 1957	Canberra, ACT, Australia	94
Son	George COPPIN	1866	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Son	Thomas William COPPIN	1868	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1959	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	91
Daughter	Laura COPPIN	1871	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1927	Petersham, New South Wales, Australia	56
Son	Albert Henry COPPIN	1873	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1931	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	58
Daughter in Law	Agnes Isabella SMITH
Son in Law	James Henry CAVANAGH	1862	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1946	Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia	84
Son in Law	Timothy KELLEHER	abt 1856		17 Aug 1939	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	83
Daughter in Law	Jane Alice WALL	1876	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	13 Nov 1950	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia	74
Son in Law	John James MCINNES	1867	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	20 Sep 1913	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	46
Grandson	Charles Frederick COPPIN	1901		12 May 1948	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	47
Grandson	Patrick Aaron CAVANAGH	29 Sep 1887		26 Dec 1975	Te Awamutu, New Zealand	88
Grandson	John Bryan KELLEHER	1887	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1966	Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia	79
Granddaughter	Mary K KELLEHER	1889	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Patrick L KELLEHER	1890	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Michael W KELLEHER	1892	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1912	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	20
Granddaughter	Laura A KELLEHER	1894	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Thomas J KELLEHER	1896	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Margaret E KELLEHER	1899	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Eileen KELLEHER	1901	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Johanna KELLEHER	1904	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Cornelius T KELLEHER	1906	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	George D KELLEHER	1908	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	John COPPIN	1903	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Kathleen M COPPIN	1905	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Margaret (Rita) A COPPIN	1910	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Elmo Jane COPPIN	1912	Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Thomas W COPPIN	1915	Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Elsie MCINNES	1903	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Events in Catherine SHEEDY (1828 - 1901)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1828		Catherine SHEEDY was born	Ballina, Co Tipperary, Ireland		6
1859	31	Birth of son John COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	11883/1859	6
07 Jan 1859	31	Married John COPPIN (aged 18)	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia	956/1859	6
1861	33	Birth of daughter Margaret Ann COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	12133/1861	6
1863	35	Birth of daughter Ellen COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	12792/1863	6
1866	38	Birth of son George COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	14088/1866	6
1868	40	Birth of son Thomas William COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	15598/1868	6
1871	43	Birth of daughter Laura COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	16593/1871	6
1873	45	Birth of son Albert Henry COPPIN	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	17546/1873	6
27 May 1901	73	Catherine SHEEDY died	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia		6

Source References:

6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001

- Reference = 58 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = 286 (Birth)

- Reference = 58 (Marriage)

- Reference = 286 (Death)

80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/

- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2233/catherine-coppin.html (Name, Notes)

- Notes: Born: 1831; Died: 1901; Married: nee Sheedy Related Places Coppin homestead John and Catherine Coppin lived and raised a family of seven children in the vicinity of the... Catherine Sheedy was born in about 1831 (Irish records have been lost for that period) in Ballina, County Tipperary, to Denis and Margaret Sheedy (nee Durie). At around age twenty four she sailed for Australia as an assisted migrant on the Exodus which left Liverpool on 21 April 1855 and arrived in Sydney on 26 July 1855. Her mother was still living in Ballina, but her father was dead. Her shipping record also notes that she was a Roman Catholic, a cook, in good health, and able to read and write. Arriving in Sydney she had the good fortune to meet a former neighbour from Ireland, John Patrick Cunningham, known as 'Paddy-Two-Sticks' in Ginninderra, the district he came from. Cunningham found employment for Catherine as a lady's maid in the Deloitte family household. John Coppin, her husband to be, also found work in the Deloitte household when he arrived in Sydney two years later in September 1857. However, 15 months later John was sacked after being found worse for wear in the cellar with the Deloitte's son Quentin, and Catherine resigned in sympathy. On 7 January 1859 they were married at the Roman Catholic Church of St Augustine, Balmain, and shortly after set off for the Major's Creek goldfields, near Braidwood. After they spending some months at the Major's Creek gold field, they again took advice from Cunningham, who directed them to William Davis' Ginninderra estate, where he himself was working. Helped by the fact that he had played cricket back in Kent, Coppin was taken on as a labourer at 12/- a week plus rations. Catherine, well pregnant with their first child (John) when they made the four day journey to Ginninderra, and gave birth in the tent that was their first home. Early in 1860 John took the position of shepherd at the Goat Station (present day Coppins Crossing) on the Molonglo River - one of the many shepherding out-stations of the Ginninderra estate. Here the Coppins shared a three roomed hut with 'Paddy' Cunningham, who also shepherded a flock nearby. Catherine was able to supplement John's 12/- a week by catering for travellers on their way to the Kiandra goldfield. Conditions were tough however, with both drought (1865-66) and floods (1873) and the predations of insects and wildlife - as well as the occasional good year (1876). When Ralph Edge, fellow shepherd at Lime Kiln Waterhole died in 1872 'what little property he had went to John and Catherine Copping who had looked after him in his later days' (Shumack, S). This would have been a blessing to the Coppins. Catherine had seven children. John was followed by Margaret Ann (1861), Ellen (1863), George (1866), Thomas William (1868), Laura (1871) and Albert Henry (1873). (Ellen, who was to marry Timothy Kelleher, was the great grand-mother of family historian Rhonda Boxall). Margaret, Ellen and George are listed as prospective pupils when application was made for a school two and a half miles away at Weetangera. Ellen, George, Thomas and Laura's names were put forward in 1877 when the Council of Education was petitioned to upgrade the school from Provisional to Public School status. Meanwhile the family of nine grew up at Goat Station, producing what they could in their small orchard and vegetable plots. Neighbour Samuel Shumack says of them: 'As neighbours [the Coppins] were excellent.It would be impossible to find a more hospitable couple than John and Catherine Coppin'. As was common in the rural districts, small farmers helped one another with the major tasks such as harvesting. Shumack also notes that: 'Mrs Coppin was a better reaper that her husband, and Mrs John Bunning could beat her husband easily; they averaged seven acres a week'. The family moved onto land of their own in 1878, close to the Goat Station which became known as Coppins Corner Paddock. In 1891 John and Catherine acquired land in the Kowen / Burbong district where they built 'Cohen', their home for the next ten years. Catherine died at Cohen in 1901. [Generous assistance from Rhonda Boxall gratefully acknowledged]

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