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Catherine EUNSON ‎(I5128)‎

Given Names: Catherine
Surname: EUNSON
Married Name: Catherine SPENCE

Gender: Female Female

Birth: 23 November 1824

35 Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Death: 17 March 1917 ‎(Age 92)‎ Nairne, South Australia, Australia

Personal Facts and Details

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Birth	23 November 1824 37 35 Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Marriage	Samuel SPENCE - 4 December 1849 ‎(Age 25)‎ Orkney Islands, Scotland Source: Orkney Islands Parish Records Note: "Samuel Spence of the Parish of St Andrews and Catherine Eunson of the Parish of Kirkwall were matriomonially contracted 3rd November, and after proclamation were married 4th December 1849 by the Revd. Robert paterson. Witnesses--James Eunson and james Drever."
Biographical Notes	Source: Thelma Chapman Skitch Note: "Grandma Spence and her daughters, Clarissa and Ann, were Presbyterians. They went to a church at Inverbrackie ‎(which is in ruins and covered with ivy)‎, where the Woodside camp is. After a while there was a Presbyterian minister who came to the Institute building in Nairne. Then they couldn't get a minister, and there was practically no congregation left; so they joined the Primitive Methodists. I was 4 or 5 years old then ‎(cir. 1906)‎. That faded out, so they went to the Wesleyan Methodists ‎(or vice versa)‎." "When Grandma Spence was very old, I used to sit on a little stool to read the Bible to her. I was very young, but if I made a mistake she would immediately pick it up. As Grandma became old, she started to speak Gaelic again." ‎[Instead of Gaelic, it might have been the old Norse dialect which is spoken on the Orkney Islands.]‎" "Grandma Spence had a wine licence, and they used to buy wine in a big barrel. When sombody wanted some wine, she filled a bottle for them. Beryl used to say that she used to catch the drips on her fingers and suck it."
Death	17 March 1917 ‎(Age 92)‎ Nairne, South Australia, Australia Cause of death: Morbus Cordis
Burial	Nairne Cemetery, Nairne, South Australia, Australia
Last Change	25 November 2007 - 13:38

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Parents Family (F1801)
Father	Robert EUNSON 1787 - 1867
Mother	Rebekha ‎(unknown)‎ 1789 - 1879
Sister	Ann EUNSON 1815 -
Sister	Margaret Spence EUNSON 1820 - 1899
	Catherine EUNSON 1824 - 1917
Brother	John EUNSON 1827 - 1909
Brother	James EUNSON 1829 - 1898

Immediate Family (F1800)
Husband	Samuel SPENCE 1824 - 1865
Son	James SPENCE 1850 - 1851
Son	Robert SPENCE 1852 - 1884
Son	Samuel SPENCE 1854 -
Daughter	Clarissa SPENCE 1859 - 1907
Daughter	Ann Annie SPENCE 1865 - 1951

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Marriage	"Samuel Spence of the Parish of St Andrews and Catherine Eunson of the Parish of Kirkwall were matriomonially contracted 3rd November, and after proclamation were married 4th December 1849 by the Revd. Robert paterson. Witnesses--James Eunson and james Drever."
Marriage	"Samuel Spence of the Parish of St Andrews and Catherine Eunson of the Parish of Kirkwall were matriomonially contracted 3rd November, and after proclamation were married 4th December 1849 by the Revd. Robert paterson. Witnesses--James Eunson and james Drever."
Biographical Notes	"Grandma Spence and her daughters, Clarissa and Ann, were Presbyterians. They went to a church at Inverbrackie ‎(which is in ruins and covered with ivy)‎, where the Woodside camp is. After a while there was a Presbyterian minister who came to the Institute building in Nairne. Then they couldn't get a minister, and there was practically no congregation left; so they joined the Primitive Methodists. I was 4 or 5 years old then ‎(cir. 1906)‎. That faded out, so they went to the Wesleyan Methodists ‎(or vice versa)‎." "When Grandma Spence was very old, I used to sit on a little stool to read the Bible to her. I was very young, but if I made a mistake she would immediately pick it up. As Grandma became old, she started to speak Gaelic again." ‎[Instead of Gaelic, it might have been the old Norse dialect which is spoken on the Orkney Islands.]‎" "Grandma Spence had a wine licence, and they used to buy wine in a big barrel. When sombody wanted some wine, she filled a bottle for them. Beryl used to say that she used to catch the drips on her fingers and suck it."

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Source	Bronte Chapman Gould
Marriage	Orkney Islands Parish Records
Marriage	Orkney Islands Parish Records
Marriage	Orkney Islands Parish Records
Death of spouse	Government Records Citation Details: Death certificate
Biographical Notes	Thelma Chapman Skitch