my 3x great grandmother

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Catherine married Cuthbert Hogg in around 1839. I know nothing about Cuthbert, but he appears to have been a native of Tynemouth - there are a large number of other Hoggs resident in Tynemouth in the 1841 census. He was almost certainly some sort of marine officer, possibly a ship's pilot. He is himself absent from the 1841 census, at which point Catherine was living with her family in Front Street, along with her first child, Thomas Taskes Hogg (b 1840). Cuthbert Sr seems to have reappeared periodically. Cuthbert Hogg Jr was born in 1843 in Tynemouth, and then the family moved to Stepney in around 1844. Clara was born there in 1845, followed by George Joseph Henry Hogg in 1847. Family life was curtailed abruptly in 1848, when Cuthbert Sr died. 

Catherine returned to Tynemouth with the children, and moved into 42 Front Street. She is listed in the 1851 census as a lodging house keeper, and there are two resident visitors in the house as well as Clara and Joseph. Thomas and Cuthbert lived further down the street with their grandparents. She was living with her mother in 1861, along with son Cuthbert (now a mariner). Ten years later however, she was back in London, a patient at St Mary's Hospital in Stoke Newington, and described as a "pensioner from Trinity House". The Corporation of Trinity House was the authority which licensed all ships' pilots for London and certain other English ports, as well as the country's lighthouse keepers. It also provided charitable support to its licensees and their dependents, so presumably Catherine fell ill and required a medical procedure which was paid for by Trinity House. Catherine's eldest son Thomas was himself a licensed Trinity House Pilot. She died in 1876.

(see here for Catherine's three sons)

Lucretia Share: Catherine's younger sister Lucretia appears to have enjoyed the happiest, although also the briefest, life. In 1847 she married George Lockwood (1821-1877), the son and heir of a prosperous timber merchant in Stockton-on-Tees. They had a large family, including Anne Share Lockwood (1847-??), Barrett Share Lockwood (1848-1908), James George Lockwood (1850-1909), Elizabeth Barrett Lockwood (1852-??), Clara Share Lockwood (known as Daisy) (1853-1933), Emily Catherine Lockwood (1855-1924), Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856-1914) and Georgina Louisa Lockwood (1860-1923). Sadly, Lucretia died in 1872. However her most significant contribution to my family tree is that she engineered the introduction of her niece Clara to William Maclean, who had a position at the company firm.

Clarissa Share: Clarissa, known as Clara, never married. She seems to have lived at home in Tynemouth until the death of her mother, and at some point later went to live with her nieces Emily and Georgina Lockwood. In 1881, she was living with them in Cambridge Terrace, Norton, in Durham. She died in 1885 in Tynemouth.

Henry Share and James Share: The three girls appear to have had two brothers, but I can find little documentation to support this other than fleeting reference in two letters by Catherine's children. These refer in passing to "Uncle Henry" who "perished ... in Franklin's Arctic Expedition" and also to "Uncle James", both of whom appear to have been sons of Elizabeth. Sir John Franklin was a celebrated explorer whose final expedition to chart the Northwest Passage went missing in 1847 and was the subject of a celebrated mystery for many years. See here for further details. James is referred to by Elizabeth's grandson Joseph Hogg as "Uncle Captain Share", but I can find no other details of either.