(Dempster) Green, Catherine

In April 1877 at Tarcowie, John Jnr married Catherine Dempster, the second daughter of Tarcowie landholder William & Elizabeth Dempster (nee Cowie).
John & Catherine had six children all born at Tarcowie between1878–1888, Sydney, Percy, Eva, Hurtle, Ethel & Alexander.    
John remained in Tarcowie working as a boundary rider possibly on the Pekina station or Tarcowie selection and later as a storeman, butcher and hotel keeper of the Tarcowie Hotel from 1896 until 1901 when he & wife Catherine moved to Farina to take a lease of the Exchange Hotel.
John Green died from bronchitis after a short illness at the Exchange Hotel on 2 August 1907 (death certificate states bronchitis).
Following John’s death the licence for the Exchange Hotel was transferred to his wife Catherine Green from 1907-1908 from the following notice :  
The Advertiser Adelaide Monday 9 December 1907
The following business was transacted:- Transfers of publicans'' licenses-Catherine Green, Exchange Hotel, Farina, from J. Green.  
The licence was again transferred from Catherine to a Miss Ellen Darmody on 20 June 1908.

Catherine later lived in Adelaide where she died at her daughter’s (Eva Murphy),residence on 25 August 1936.   She is buried at the Mitcham Cemetery.

Biographical information kindly provided with permission of Leah Bird (2020).
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