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1.2 CATHERINE ELIZABETH HASSALL (1825-1923)

Catherine (known as Kate) Hassall was born at Port Macquarie on 9 June 1825. She grew
up at Denbigh ad enjoyed the advantages offered by her comfortable extended family and their
social circle. In 1835 she received a sum of money in lieu of her land grant entitlement as the
daughter of a clergyman. She married Dr Robert Culbertson Hope on 12 August 1846. He was
born at Lynnburn, Morebattle, Roxburgshire, Scotland on 12 May 1812 and took a degree in
Medicine at Edinburgh in 1833. He came to Sydney at about the same time as his brothers George
and James and sister Isabella, but on different ships - George Hope came on the North Britain
arriving in Sydney on 6 January 1839, and James Hope arrived on the Christina arriving in Sydney
on 18 April 1839. Robert and Isabella sailed on the Lady Kennaway arriving on 12 August 1939
(other sources suggest that the Lady Kennaway arrived on 12 August 1838).267 He practised
medicine in Campbelltown and Narellan from 1838-1846. By then a decision had been made for
the couple to move to Victoria and farewells were given them by her family at Denbigh. In 1847
the newly married couple joined Robert's brothers and sister, who had overlanded from Sydney to
the Port Phillip district and had taken up land on the Moorabool River near Geelong in 1839.

Robert Hope took up a practice in Geelong at first but in 1820 he gave up his practice and
they lived at Native Creek Station. By 1851 they moved to Barwon Leigh, Inverleigh where their
baby son, James Hope, was born and was very ill so was baptised by his father because no
clergyman was available and the baby died a few weeks later.268 In 1852 Barwon Leigh was handed
over to Robert Hope's brother, James Hope because James who had worked for his brothers for
twelve years wanted a place of his own.269 Robert Hope continued to farm at Native Creek Station
where in 1853 he had 70 acres under oats, and a large flock of.270

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Lynnburn, Batesford.
From Blackall, Bettina M., Batesford and its Early Families.

267 Proctor, Peter, The Annotated Hassall Children, Research Notes and References, p.22
268 Hassall Correspondence, A1677-1, pp.1911-14, 8032-5 and 2033-4.
269 Ibid., p.8050-53.
270 Ibid., p.683-6.

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