Catherine's Story: From a Childhood on the Isle of Skye to Life in the Colony of New South Wales

This nineteenth century social history is written by Gail Barnes, the great, great granddaughter of Catherine McKinnon. Catherine McKinnon's life began on the crofting settlement of Kendram, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. However, due to the compounding effects of the Highland Clearances and the famine of 1837, there was no future for her in Scotland. So, when Catherine was only thirteen, she emigrated to the colony of New South Wales, Australia with her older brother John and his young f...