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Born: circa 1749, Ireland (assumed)
Died: 1832
Country most active: Ireland
Also known as: Catherine Butler
After Edmund Finn’s death, which occurred on 5 April 1777, the newspaper was continued by his wife, Catherine Finn (1749?–1832), who proved fairly successful at the printing business until about 1805, when it petered out. In Wilson’s Dublin Directory for 1783 she is listed as the Kilkenny agent of the Hibernian Insurance Co. She died, aged eighty-three, in 1832.