Catherine Symons (Peters) Beer (1840 - 1912)

Born 3 Aug 1840 in Constantine, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Herbert Beer — married 1861 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died 29 Jun 1912 at age 71 in Riverton, Southland, New Zealand

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Biography

Catherine Symons Peters was born at Constantine in Cornwall, England to Nicholas Peters and his wife Argent Symons, probably in early- to mid-1840. She was christened at the Constantine Parish Church on 23rd August 1840. ^[1] In 1861 she married Josiah Beer at Falmouth in Cornwall. ^[2]

After deciding to emigrate to New Zealand Catherine and Josiah can be found among the steerage passengers who disembarked from the emigrant ship 'Chile' which landed at Port Chalmers near Dunedin in Otago on 7th December 1861. Their two-year-old daughter Clara Jane Peters arrived with them.

Although they arrived at Dunedin, Josiah and his family headed south until finally settling at Riverton, a coastal settlement a few miles west of Invercargill in Southland and one of New Zealand's southern-most settlements. Catherine and Josiah eventually produced nine New Zealand-born siblings for Clara.

Catherine died at Riverton on 29th June 1912 at the age of 72, and was buried with her husband in Row C of Anglican Section 16 at the Riverton Cemetery. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Constantine Parish, Cornwall Online Parish Clerk 11 March 2020: Peters, Catherine Symons, christened 23 August 1840, birth date: —-, father: Nicholas; mother: Argent; abode: Tregantellan; occupation: farmer; comment: —-.
2. ↑ information from Rootsweb 1 January 1999.
3. ↑ Southland District Council Cemeteries Online: Beer, Catherine, died 29 June 1912, 72 years, buried at Riverton Cemetery 16 Anglican Section Row C.

• Family tree created by Shirley Smith.
• Gravestone at Riverton Cemetery.
• England Birth and Christenings 1538-1975 Indexing project P00639-1 System Origin England - ODM GS Film Number 226147, 226148, 226149
• Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.