Real name: Catherine Mary Ryan

Australian singer born 28 January 1870 at Combaning station, near Temora, New South Wales. 'The Australian Queen of Irish Song' was noted for a voice 'not unlike Nellie Melba's'. Died 26 January 1941 at Clevecot, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, and was buried in Holy Trinity churchyard. When the churchyard was resumed for a children's playground, her headstone was sent to Australia and re-erected in the grounds of the Temora Rural Museum in 1980.