Catherine Gorman

BIRTH & BAPTISM I have corrected Catherine's birth/baptism to conform with records attached as sources, since it seems fairly unequivocal that this is the correct record. Always possible there were two Catherines, since names were reused when a child died.

Catherine was born 9 June 1843 and baptised at St Anthony's on 25 June 1843, father James, mother Ellen Cahill; sponsors Michael Turley(?) & Jane Bruce. They seem to be living in Hodson St, or Hudson St not Sweeting or Naylor. See docs Catherine Last name Gorman Gender Female Birth year 1843 Birth place - Baptism year 1843 Baptism date 25 Jun 1843 Residence Liverpool, Lancashire, England Place Liverpool County Lancashire Country England Father's first name(s) James Father's last name - Mother's first name(s) Ellen Mother's last name Cahill

DEATH & BURIAL March 1 1851, Cath Gorman of Naylor Street was buried at St Anthony's. She was 7yrs old, and James paid 9/6 for the funeral and burial. See docs

[St Joseph's Catholic Church, Liverpool (now demolished), has a record for the birth of Catherine Gorman on 12 September 1854, baptised on 1 October 1854, father James Gorman, mother Ellen Cahill. Sponsors, James Flynn and Ellen Bridget McCarty. Priest, M Duggan. There is too much detail here for it to be a mistake, so the first Catherine has died, and a second been named. I will add this second Catherine to the tree.]

I have added a possible marriage for Catherine to John Ryan. St Augustines record number is 199. 1860: St Augustine RC Church, Liverpool, Catherine Gorman , born 1843, married John Ryan. Can't be our Catherine who died before 1851. Catherine doesn't appear to be living anywhere in 1851, and almost certainly died in one of the frequent epidemics of cholera, typhus, diphtheria, etc. that swept the crowded Irish 'courts' for a decade. Catherine was a very common name and there are deaths for Catherine Gorman recorded for Q4 1846, Q1 1848, and Q1 1851, any one of which could be this little girl. Diseases of poverty and unsanitary conditions, like cholera, typhoid and diphtheria swept the Scotland Road area of Liverpool throughout this time. In 1854 her mother died in the cholera epidemic in September of that year, nine days after the birth of the second Catherine, who was baptised ten days later at St Joseph's, not St Anthony's where Ellen was buried. The household broke up afterwards.

There are strong reasons to believe this Catherine died before 1851, and the name was reused in 1854.