Catherine Hallanin

CATHERINE HALLANIN (1864-1955)

was born at Devonport in England [British Columbia, Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932, index and images, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDZ8-N2H . According to her death registration she was born on 19 February 1864 and died at Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, on 6 June 1955 [British Columbia, Death Registrations, 1872-1986, index and images, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLR5-8J4

First Marriage

Catherine Hallinan married Staff Sergeant William Chapman [The Victoria Heritage Foundation] http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/New%20Desig/StLawrence426....

Second Marriage

Catherine Hallanin married Honorable George Bohun Martin at Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, on 20 January 1914, nine days after the death of his first wife, Ann Saint Paul, at Campbell Range near Kamloops in British Columbia [British Columbia, Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932, index and images, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDZ8-N2C

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Biographical Accounts

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The Victoria Heritage Foundation says this of Catherine Hallinan: "Widow Kate Chapman (c.1864-1955) was living here by 1901. She married William Chapman in Victoria in 1900, but he died in Ontario on his way to England in 1902. He was a Staff Sergeant, and was buried with full military honours in Montreal. Kate remained in this house after William’s death and in 1914 it appears that she married George Bohun Martin (1841-1933) under the name Catherine Hallinan. George was a widower. In 1866 he had married Anne St. Paul, an indigenous woman, and they had six children. She died in Yale in 1900." [The Victoria Heritage Foundation] http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/New%20Desig/StLawrence426....

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The Victoria Heritge Foundation has this to say about Honorable George Bohun Martin: "George was born in Nottingham, England, into a naval family, and at the age of 14 joined the Royal Navy with his two brothers. After serving two years on the HMS Victory, George was stationed in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He was then shipped to India with the East India Co. George became ill and returned to England, and after recuperating he made way to the Pacific Coast, and arrived in Victoria in 1862 on the SS Jonathan. On his arrival, George joined the HBC and was sent to Kamloops. He stayed with the HBC for three years, then purchased a large ranch on the South Thompson River and pursued ranching. He also entered politics and represented Yale in the legislature for 12 years. He served four years as Minister of Lands and Works under Premiers Theodore Davie and J.H. Turner, and then retired. He lived at this house on St. Lawrence until he died in 1933. Catherine lived here as a widow until the late-1940s and died at Mt. St. Mary’s Hospital in 1955." [The Victoria Heritage Foundation] http://www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/New%20Desig/StLawrence426....