Catherine Carran (née McKay, 1842 – 6 November 1935) was a half-Māori New Zealand midwife and nurse who spent her early life in the Waikato, and most of her adult life in the Fortrose area of Southland.
She was the third child of John Horton McKay, a Pākehā storekeeper, and Irihāpeti Te Paea,[1] a Māori woman whose tribal associations were with Waikato and Ngāti Pūkeko of Whakatāne.
Catherine married William Carran, a stock keeper, at Waitetuna, Raglan, on 29 October 1860.
[2] In 1861 William moved from the Waikato to Archibald and James Campbell's Waimahaka station in Southland, where Catherine joined him.
In about 1872 she bought a small farm and on 11 November 1872 married William Henry Patterson, a miner from the United States.