HISTORY OF HOGAN – HORAN FAMILY
CATHERINE HORAN born Lusmagh area, Kings’s County Ireland, about 1799 daughter of JOHN HORAN &
MARY FAHEY or KILFAHEY. or even KILFILL
CATHERINE HORAN married JOHN HOGAN about 1825 in Kings County
Ireland. JOHN HOGAN DIED in Kings County pre 1853. CATHERINE HOGAN as a widow arrived in Melbourne Australia 22nd Jan. 1854 on the Ship “Boomerang”which sailed from Liverpool on 5th Nov 1853. The ship carried 399 passengers of whom 10 died during the voyage. The disposal record states that Catherine could read but not write and was a domestic and a Roman Catholic. Catherine Hogan (nee Horan) died 11th Feb. 1887 in Bendigo she is buried in the Old Bendigo Cemetry in an unmarked grave.
She had lived 34 years in Australia, and was 88 years old. Catherine owned a cottage in Bendigo and lived near her brother Joseph Horan, her sister Honora Mackins, her niece Honora Merrigan, also her son Patrick and his family (see below).
Mary Cowie's family history 