Kerrison biography

Catherine Kerrison

American historian

Catherine M. Kerrison[1] (born 1953) is an American historian, and professor of history at Villanova University.[2] Her work examines the role and life of American women, with the assistance of primary sources, oral history and written biographies.

Life

Kerrison was born on September 30, 1953.[3] She studied American history at the College of William & Mary, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1994 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1999[4][5] with the thesis By the Book: Advice and Female Behavior in the Eighteenth-Century South.[1] She teaches women's and gender history and focuses on the colonial and revolutionary period of US history. In 2007, she was awarded the Outstanding Book Prize of the History of Education Society for her first book, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South.[6]

Kerrison is the Academic Director of Gender and Women's Studies of Villanova.[7] In 2012, she was a Virginia Foundation

Jason Kerrison

Jason Mark Kerrison

MNZM

Kerrison performing at TechFest in 2008

Born (1976-10-15) October 15, 1976 (age 48)
Invercargill, New Zealand
GenresRock, pop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, producer
Instrument(s)Vocals, electric guitar
Member ofOpshop, The Babysitters Circus

Musical artist

Jason Mark KerrisonMNZM (born October 15, 1976)[1][2][3] is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, producer, and former radio broadcaster, best known as the lead singer of the band Opshop.

Kerrison's albums with Opshop have gone multi-platinum and received critical acclaim. He received the 2008 APRA Silver Scroll Award for the hit single "One Day".[4] In 2011, Kerrison was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.[5] In 2015, he received the Southland Music Ambassador award at the ILT Southland Entertainment Awards.[6]

In addition to Opshop, Kerrison has worked on side projects including The Babysitters Circus, and h

Biographical entry: Kerrison, Stephen (1798 - 1881)

Born
1798
Died
1881
Occupation
Farmer

Summary

Stephen Kerrison , farmer, was born in England. He arrived in Launceston as a free settler with his wife Mary and their family in 1835, on the Charles Kerr, one of fourteen female emigrant ships the British government commissioned the London Emigration Committee to send to the Australian colonies to provide much-needed female labour.

Details

By 1835 the government paid the women's passages. Although many passengers were single women, a significant proportion comprised families with daughters eligible for 'the bounty', as in this case. Stephen had already been engaged to work as a bailiff or shepherd for James Cox and paid his own passage, but the government paid for the two eldest girls, Caroline and Eliza. Caroline had been hired to work for James Henty. In the mid-1840s Stephen was living at Swan Bay, East Tamar. The last six of his children were baptised in St Matthias' Anglican church, Windermere and Stephen was involved in the life of this church. In 1852 he mov

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