She was born 25 September 1776 as the sixth surviving child of Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood while the family was living at Etruria Hall.
[1] After the death of Catherine in 1823, she lived at Camp Hill, Maer Heath, Staffordshire.
[2] In 1825 she was a founding member of the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves (later called the Female Society for Birmingham), along with Lucy Townsend, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, and Sophia Sturge.
The group 'promoted the sugar boycott, targeting shops as well as shoppers, visiting thousands of homes and distributing pamphlets, calling meetings and drawing petitions.
[4] She is probably the 'Miss Wedgwood' who published the pamphlet British Slavery Described to raise funds for the North Staffs Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in 1828.