"Catherine Robb came to America with her father, brothers and sisters, probably walking most of the way from St John where they landed. On the way to Baileyville they passed men working on the the road. One of them, Michael Dawson, was smitten with Catherine and the dainty way she lifted her skirt over the puddles, and told the men she was the girl he was going to marry. They were married in Eastport where there was the nearest priest, walking there and back. Michael and Catherine bought land from the Government, or rather from Baileyville on Sept 29, 1834 and had it paid for when mother (Sarah Dawson) was 5 years old. They built a log house which they replaced with the present farm house on the so called Old Farm where I spent so many happy days. The land borders on Meddybemps Lake. Mother was 17 years old when the 'new house' was built." - Mame Sheehan history.
She is listed in 1850 as Catherine Flood (46, IRE) with husband Edward (40, IRE) and Dawson children John (15), Mary (12), Michael (9), Sarah (6), and Dennis (4), along with Edmund Flood (1).
In 1860 she is listed as Catherine Dawson (indexed as Dowson), a farmer (48, IRE) with all of her children under the same surname (even the two Flood children).
Listed as Catherine Flood in 1870.
In 1880 she is listed as Catherine Flood, a widow (68, IRE) with her two Flood children, son Michael Dawson (40, ME), grandson James Dawson (8, ME), and an adopted son Henry Oneil (14, NB Canada).