She had one son, Arthur Lionel Tobin who was born when they lived in Ballincollig, County Cork.

However Tobin and her husband shared an interest in travel and antiquities and spent considerable time in the middle and near east.

At home in Cork, Tobin was a patron of the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital for many years.

[2][3] George Kelleher has suggested that while Thomas Tobin was an "antiquarian and curio collector in the spirit of the Victorian age", his wife Catherine, "was a far more considerable cultural figure".

Pictures from Tobin's 1855 book: David Roberts views in 1839, published in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia: