Innes, Catherine Lucy (1839/40–1900)

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Innes, Catherine Lucy (1839/40–1900)

New Zealand writer. Name variations: Catherine Lucy Williams, Pilgrim (pseudonym). Born Catherine Lucy Williams, c. 1839 or 1840, in England; dau. of Theodore Williams and Mary Ann Williams; m. David Innes (sheep farmer), 1860 (died 1865); children: 1.

Immigrated with family to New Zealand (1850); under pseudonym of Pilgrim, wrote weekly articles for newspapers, which were revised and expanded as Canterbury Sketches; or, Life from the Early Days (1879).

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 1).

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