Katherine Kirkland | |
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Born | Katherine Hamilton 23 February 1808 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Died | Liverpool, Merseyside, England | 10 June 1892
Nationality | British |
Occupation | settler |
Known for | her diary |
Spouse | Kenneth William Kirkland |
Children | three |
Katherine Kirkland (23 February 1808 – 10 June 1892) was an Australian colonist, squatter and memoirist who was born in Glasgow. She is known for the accounts she wrote of her few years in Australia when she was the first European woman at Trawalla near Beaufort, Victoria.