Catharine’s father had been the leader of Mandy’s Party of 1820 Settlers. “John Mandy, a master carpenter of Lambeth Marsh, Surrey (now part of Greater London), who was originally from Foots Cray near Chislehurst, Kent.[1]
John Mandy moved from Bathurst to Grahamstown in about 1825. His first wife Mary Ann did not live long to enjoy the more comfortable life of the larger town. She died on 13 February 1826. Seven months later, on 26 September 1826, he married Mary Dogherty in the Catholic Church in Grahamstown.[2] Catherine was the youngest of their five children, she was born in Grahamstown in 1845.
Patrick married Catherine Mandy in St Patrick’s in Grahamstown, on 12 September 1864, by special license[3]; 11 children were born of this marriage.
Catherine died of an infection of the kidneys on Springfield Farm in 1897 and is buried in the President Brand Cemetery in Church Street, Bloemfontein.[4]
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