Catherine Mulgrave
Catherine Elisabeth Mulgrave also Gewe (19 November 1827 ─ 14 January 1891) was an Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer educator, administrator and missionary who accompanied a group of 24 Caribbean mission recruits from Jamaica and Antigua and arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu, Accra in Ghana in 1843. Mulgrave was a leading figure in pedagogy and the education programme for girls in both Jamaica and on the Gold Coast. She was the Basel Mission’s first female teacher active on the Gold Coast. Under the auspices of the society, she played a pioneering role in the Christian women ministry of the Protestant movement in colonial Ghana. Catherine Mulgrave was also one of the first African woman teachers in the missionary educationalist system in Africa.
Catherine Dorothea Burdett
Born Catherine Dorothea Browne in Dublin, 1784, to Frances Corry who was sister to the MP Isaac Corry and her husband Col. William Browne of Glengarry who served in the American revolution. Her father worked in Ireland as an Army recruitment agent and when he died in 1813, Burdett ended in a legal case brought by the government against her father's estate looking for an account of his finances. The case continued on for over 10 years. She married widower Capt. George Burdett, R. N., of Longtown House, County Kildare in 1806. He had served in the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. They had a son George and two daughters, Frances Elizabeth and Catherine Jane.