Catherine 'Kate' Burt was born in New Zeland 24 Feb 1850, the second of 9 children of Thomas BURT & Elizabeth WILKIE

She married Robert CLELAND (1851-1893) in 1872
- Robert was a prosperous Lower Hutt grocer
- they had 9 children, 7 sons and 2 daughters
- In 1893 Robert, a well-to-do Lower Hutt grocer, led a family migration to Taranaki, intending to farm at Toko. He soon decided to shift to Kaponga on account of the poor roads to Toko, but died suddenly before making the move. Catherine then led her family of two daughters and seven sons to take possession of the farm on Upper Manaia Road.
She saw all of her sons established on farms, six in Taranaki, one in the Waikato. She herself continued farming on Palmer Rd

The children of Catherine & Robert
all born Lower Hutt
1873 - 1956 Harold William Cleland
farmed on Opuanake Rd then on Gordon Rd, Toko
married Via Maud ANDERSON in 1905
Harold died aged 83

1875 - 1957 Hugh Cleland
farmer in Taranaki
married Catherine Elizabeth DUNCAN in 1905
Hugh died aged 82

1877 - 1962 Thomas Burt Cleland
married his mother`s sister Harriet`s daughter Gladys SANSON in 1919
Thomas died aged 85

1879 - 1939 Norman Robert Cleland
married Maggie Helen LAW in Kaponga 1907
Norman died aged 60

1880 - 1957 Lena Kate Cleland
married George Blandford HILL in 1904
Lena died aged 77

1882 - 1947 Frederick Earl Cleland
married Ethel May CARTER in 1929
Frederick died aged 65

1884 - 1971 Olive Winifred Cleland
married Samuel Archibald LEWIS in 1908
Olive died aged 87

1886 - 1950 Bernard Edmondson Cleland
farmed in Kaponga
married Alice Myrtle POOLEY in 1919
Bernard died aged 64
buried in Kaponga General

1888 - 1972 Arthur Sefton Cleland
sheep farmer in Rowan Rd Kaponga
married Myrtle May CASEY in 1921
Arthur died aged 83
ashes scattered at Te Henui

Catherine died 24 Sep 1941 aged 91, 48 years after Robert and is buried at Gordonton, Waikato
thank you to peachesmum, (24-8-2018) for her burial