Remembering Catharine

This ghost memoir tells the life of Catharine Maber from her harsh beginnings as a child in Ireland to her eventual marriage and transportation to a penal colony in Australia. A skilled embroiderer which often helped her to survive Catharine tells her story through the making of a patchwork quilt.Catharines story is told from family research and written from Catharines point of view outlining how she survived in a harsh environment with a husband who constantly absconded with her hard earned savings and her desperation to survive led to her arrest and conviction and eventual transportation to Australia where she started life anew.