Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (26 August 1695 in Strasbourg – 1793 in Paris) (known as l'aînée) was a French singer and composer. Her father was the actor Jean Quinault (1656–1728), and her brother was Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Bellérophon". She remained at the opera until 1713. In 1714 she began singing at the Comédie-Française, where she remained until 1722. Quinault composed motets for the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles. For one of these motets she was awarded the first Order of Saint
Anne Jane Cupples Cupples decided to join her sisters in New Zealand. She sailed from Plymouth in RMS "Gothic" for Port Chalmers, arriving there on 14 November 1894. She spent the next four years living with her unmarried sisters, Margaret and Caroline Douglas who lived at Mosgiel, near Dunedin. Anne Jane published George's life's findings on dogs in a lavish illustrated book of over three hundred pages called "Scotch Deer hounds and their Masters". George and Anne are buried together in Dalry Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh. Anne Jane Cupples Anne Jane Cupples, "née" Douglas (4 January 1839 – 14 November 1896) was a