Catherine REDMOND [759]

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lived Alhambra Station nr. Coonamble.
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 19 July 1912 page 21
DEATH OF MRS. MICHAEL COSTIGAN.
At Alhambra Station, Coonamble, on Thursday, the 20th June, there passed away to her long home Mrs. Catherine Costigan, relict of the late Mr. Michael Costigan, of Yerong Creek. Mrs. Costigan, then Miss Redmond, arrived in Melbourne with her parents in 1841 from County Carlow, Ireland. Her first residence was at Geelong, and there she was married to Mr. Michael Costigan, shortly afterwards removing to Riverina (Albury district), where she remained until ten years ago, when she settled down with some members of her family at Alhambra.
Her husband predeceased her about twenty six years, but the family stuck together, and now the Costigan Bros, are amongst the most well-to-do of our men on the land. There, were fifteen children born of the marriage, thirteen of them being alive, viz.: - Denis, Yerong Creek; John, Cootamundra; Michael, Timothy, William, Anthony, and Charles, all of Alhambra; Mrs. Driscoll, Yerong Creek ; Mrs. Jones, Henty; Mrs. Byrnes, The Rock; Mrs. O'Keefe, Western Australia; and Misses Catherine and Mary Costigan, Alhambra.
Mrs. Costigan has one brother (Mr. Jas.Redmond, Coonamble) and a sister in Queensland surviving her. The old lady, who was in her 84th year, was of a most hospitable disposition, and no one ever left Alhambra without either having 'broken bread' or been 'invited to do so. Her sons and daughters follow, her , example, and Alhambra is simply hospitality personified. Up to about three weeks ago Mrs Costigan was moving about, but she grew weaker, and passed peacefully away, fortified by the rites of the church she loved so well, and whose precepts she followed. 'The remains were taken into Coonamble on Saturday, and after a service in the RC Church were interred in the new cemetery, the Rev Father O'Farrell conducting, the burial , service. A large number of friends, especially country residents, joined the funeral cortege to show their respect for one who by her kind disposition had well earned it.

Catholic Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1932 - 1942) Thursday 29 June 1939 page 18
Among the gifts for the new church at Coonamble, the opening of which took place last week, were the following:- Marble Altar (at a cost of £1000) from Costigan Bros., Coonamble. Statue of Our Lady (at a cost of £100) from the Most Rev. Dr. J. Norton, Bishop of Bathurst, in memory of his mother.

Catherine married Michael COSTIGAN [760] [MRIN: 228], son of Patrick COSTIGAN Snr [772] and Mary FITZPATRICK [773], in 1847 in , Victoria, Australia.¹³⁸⁸ (Michael COSTIGAN [760] was born about 1817 in , , Ireland, died on 29 Jun 1880 in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia ^537,1391 and was buried on 1 Jul 1880 in Albury, NSW, Australia.)