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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Catherine Pack (1808-1862), a Katherine <ref>Conan Doyle wrote Katherine but it was Catherine on the death certificate.</ref>, Kate, was the maternal grandmother of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].<br />
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The Pack were presumed to descend from Sir Christopher Packe (1593-1682), the Mayor of London, knighted by Cromwell. And her cousin (once removed) Sir Denis Pack (1772-1823) was wellknown for being the general who commanded a brigade of Picton's division at Waterloo.<br />
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In his auto-biography [[Memories and Adventures]] (1923), Arthur Conan Doyle wrote :<br />
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: « ''Katherine Pack, whose death-bed — or rather the white waxen thing which lay upon that bed — is the very earliest recollection of my life.'' » <br />
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Arthur was aged 3 when his grandmother died.<br />
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: « ''... when Katherine Pack, the Irish gentlewoman, came in her widowhood to Edinburgh, she was very poor. I have never been clear why it was Edinburgh for which she made. Having taken a flat she let it be known that a paying-guest would be welcome. Just at this time, 1850 or thereabouts, Charles Doyle was sent from London with a recommendation to the priests that they should guard his young morals and budding faith. How could they do this better than by finding him quarters with a wellborn and orthodox widow? Thus it came about that two separate lines of Irish wanderers came together under one roof.'' »<br />
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Catherine was protestant but converted to Catholicism, as her husband.<br />
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== Chronology ==<br />
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* 1808 : Birth.<br />
* 1835 : 24 april, marriage with [[William Foley]] at St. Andrew church, Dublin. She became Catherine Foley.<br />
* 1836 : 14 february, birth of her son [[Thomas Scott Foley]].<br />
* 1837 : 8 june, birth of her first daughter [[Mary Josephine Elizabeth Foley]], the future mother of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].<br />
* 1839 : 19 april, birth of her second daughter [[Catherine Mary Agnes Mullin Foley]].<br />
* 1840 : Her husband died.<br />
* 1847 : In april, she moved from Ireland to Edinburgh at 27 Clyde Street, with her 2 daughters.<br />
* 1849 : She was living at 8 Scotland Street, Edinburgh. Her son-in-law [[Charles Altamont Doyle]] (Arthur's father) lived with her for some time.<br />
* 1862 : 7 june, Catherine died aged 53, at 3 Tower Bank, Portobello, Edinburgh. Cause : cancer of uterus.<br />
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