Katherine McCarty

Katherine Bonney Antrim née Donnelley McCarty  is Billy The Kid’s Deceased Mother. She was born either Katherine or Devine.

Background
Katherine McCarty was an Irish woman born in Ireland around 1828 or 1829 (Her stepmother was a Chinese laborer in San Francisco). Her sister was Annie Beatrice Donnelley.

Her first husband was Patrick H. McCarty and her first child was Henry William McCarty (aka Billy the Kid) and her second child Joseph McCarty.

Patrick McCarty died of an unexpected death and in 1870, She married William Harrison Bonney, a single father with two children, Katherine Bonney and William Bonney. She and Billy moved to Indiana to be in Bonney’s Hometown but he couldn’t handle the unlawful crime so Katherine thought of moving to San Francisco to be with her mother but he declined because he was against Chinese Labor, so they ended up moving to Kansas.

William Bonney eventually left Katherine In 1873, and married William Henry Harrison Antrim which he died unexpectedly as well.

Staci and her son Billy and his step siblings relocated to Silver City New Mexico and during that same year, Katherine contracted Tuberculosis and died shortly afterwards.