Mary Ann Hogan

My great grandmother Mary Ann Hogan emigrated from Castlegrgory to New Zealand on the ship Empress in 1865, with Richard and Godfrey who were her brothers, and Alice who I'm not sure about. In 1869 when she was 18 she married Edward Bissell in Havelock Nth, Hawkes Bay, NZ and the newspaper notice for this occasion said she was the youngest daughter of the late Mr M. Hogan of County Kerry, Ireland. When she died in 1887 the cemetery record listed her as born in Castlegregory, Ireland; the daughter of Michael and Mary Hogan, and as having been in New Zealand for 22 years. She had 4 sons and 3 daughters. In August 2017 we visited Ireland and found the Killiney church, walked all around the graveyard looking for gravestones but anything older than 100 years had all the writing weathered away.