Thank you both for your replies.
Shaun, there are reports of her in the Nottinghamshire Guardian, but only up to about 1862. She was certainly a drunk occasionally a prostitute, and often slept outdoors at one time with her baby.
June 23 1859 Nottinghamshire Guardian
Aggravated assault-A forlorn looking creature Catharine Judson of Cross Guns Yard, married woman was bought up having being charged with assaulting Miss Jane Cook on the 14th June in the Reindeer Public House Baldertongate.The woman had a child in her arms during the whole encounter.The magistrates commited her to prison for 21 days hard labour.
Thurs July 26 1860 A Husband beater-The notorious Catharine Judson of the Bay was bought up charged with having violently assaulted Ann Bentley on the 17th inst.Complainant was sitting at Mrs Subys door and while there was told the defendant had got her invalid husband on the floor and was thrashing him, being the mother of the unfortunate man, complainant went and stood at a little distance to see what was the matter.When the defendant came out and after aiming a savage blow at a child who was also looking on, seized the complainant by the hair of the head pulled her to the ground and throttled her, that serious consequences might have failed had not the neighbours come to her assistance.Defendant was drunk at the time. She is a woman of the most despicable character debased to such a degree that her husband will not live with her, and she had for several nights been lying out of doors with her infant child. only a few months old. She received an order for the workhouse on Saturday but did not go as it happened to be a wet day. Fined 11s including costs or in default 21 days prison.
When she married Moses Judson in Newark in 1856 she has father as John Collins basket maker.
I will check out the Lincolnshire papers.
