Catherine Mitchinson is Mary's great great grandmother. She was born and baptised in Hedon, a village to the east of Hull in Yorkshire. She was the fifth of seven children born to Jonathan Mitchinson and his wife Catherine Atkinson. Jonathan was a farmer (probably tenant) of 700 acres at Camerton Hall, where he employed 17 men and boys.
On 16 September 1841 she married William McIntosh within the parish of Patrington, which is east of Hedon. William was 40, Catherine was 19. William was born in Drypool, which at that time was a village "on the east bank of the River Hull near the confluence of the Humber Estuary and River Hull" (wikipedia). It is now part of Kingston upon Hull. William's parents, Duncan and Janet, had lived near Inverness (according to family legend) but at some point had moved south, perhaps due to the "Highland Clearances". William established a business as a merchant which Mary's great grandfather Donald may have inherited.
Alan and David Green are descendants of Eleanor Mitchinson, one of Catherine's older sisters, and have gathered considerable research on their families. Alan's web site is https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~greenmarr/genealogy/index.html
but gives little information on the Mitchinsons. David's web site is https://mygreenfamilyhistory.org/index but, at the time of writing, is not available. When it was, David told the story that Catherine, aged 60, had travelled to New Zealand to see her eldest son, Duncan, who had emigrated and married there. Some undertaking for a woman of her age in the late 19th century!
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