Catharine Gerry
(1787-1850)
BIRTH
March 1, 1787
PLACE
NAME
Catherine Gerry
DEATH
September 6, 1850
PLACE
FAMILY
BROTHER
Thomas Russell Gerry
(1794-1845)
CHILDREN
Ann Gerry
(1763-1849)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Catharine Gerry Austin (1787–1850) was the eldest daughter of Elbridge Gerry and Ann Thompson. She married James Trecothick Austin in Cambridge in 1806. Their children included Ivers James Austin and Marie Cornelia Ritchie Austin. Her husband became Massachusetts attorney general and wrote a two-volume life of her father. A portrait attributed to Sarah Goodridge preserves Catharine’s likeness. Her own activities remain less documented than her family relationships.
EARLY LIFE
Catherine Gerry Austin was born on Mar 1, 1787. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catherine Gerry Austin is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Catherine Gerry Austin died on Sep 6, 1850. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Catherine Gerry Austin died on Sep 6, 1850. Catharine Gerry Austin was the eldest daughter of Elbridge Gerry and Ann Thompson. She married James Trecothick Austin in Cambridge in 1806. Their children included Ivers James Austin and Marie Cornelia Ritchie Austin. Her husband became Massachusetts attorney general and wrote a two-volume life of her father. A portrait attributed to Sarah Goodridge preserves Catharine’s likeness. Her own activities remain less documented than her family relationships. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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