Catharine Townsend

In 1826, the year Catharine was born the first railway tunnel was built en route Liverpool to Manchester. The first Cowes Regatta was held on Isle of Wight.

The year in which she married in 1845, a Bristol man Henry Jones patented self-raising flour. German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Port Essington after a nearly 4,800 km (3,000 mi) overland journey to explore Australia's Northern Territory. Ether first used in childbirth in the USA.

There is a reference in an old bible to a Catherine O'Çonnor. Was she William Richards Mother who had remarried after William had passed on"probably a nurse and had also immigrated to Kimberley. This old bible belonged to the Baymans whose mother was a Lowden. One of the many sisters in WR Townsends family. Did she remarry after William Townsends death? Why did she also immigrate to Kimberley? Fair enough if she was a widow and went with her son and his family to South Africa.