JOSEPH CORIN (1745-1821) was born in 1745, the son of William and Susanna Corin.
In 1750 he was left £10 by his grandfather, which was kept under the guardianship of his uncle Jacob.
Before 1772 he moved to Paul, possibly living at Mousehole, but he maintained his connection with Penzance, for on 20 April 1772 he married Margaret Branwell, a 28-year-old Penzance girl at Madron.
He and Margaret both signed their names, as did Margaret's sisters, Eliza and Jane, who were the witnesses.
Margaret Branwell was the eldest daughter of Richard Branwell, an influential Penzance builder, and her brother Thomas was the father of Maria Brontë - she was therefore great-aunt to the Brontë sisters.
A son, Joseph, was baptized at Penzance parish church in January of the next year, but in the following month Margaret died.
She was buried on 15 February 1773, and was the first Corin to lie in the cemetery at Madron - the Corins themselves had always been buried in Gulval.
By 1778, Joseph had moved to Penzance, where he lived at least until 1789.
On 21 June 1778 he remarried, to a Marazion girl, Elizabeth Rawling, at St Hilary.
He again signed his name, but Elizabeth made her mark.
Charles Williams was the witness.
The couple had a further seven children.
In 1785 Joseph's uncle died, leaving him £5.
His father died in 1788.
Joseph may have gone to live with his eldest son in Penryn after 1796, or it may be that he was living with a cousin, Joseph Branwell, in Penzance in 1798.
In 1818 a Joseph Corin was ordered to be supported by his son, by the Penzance overseers, but it has not been discovered who this was.
Joseph Corin died in 1821, and was buried in Penzance on 14 November.
Joseph and Margaret Corin had a son:
1 JOSEPH CORIN (1773-1832), baptized on 12 January 1773 and apparently rebaptized on 2 December 1776, of whom more anon.
Joseph and Elizabeth Corin had seven children:
2 ELIZABETH CORIN (1779-?), baptized at Penzance on 20 January 1779.
3 ANNE CORIN (1780-?), baptized at Penzance on 16 May 1780.
She was perhaps the Anne who married James Thomas in 1802 at Gulval.
He described himself as a brewer's servant in 1810, and a labourer in 1817.
James and Ann Thomas' children were:
3.1 JAMES THOMAS (1803-18??), baptized at Gulval on 18 September 1803.
3.2 PHILIP CORIN THOMAS (180?-1807), buried at Madron on 5 October 1807.
3.3 ANN CORIN THOMAS (1809-18??), baptized on 10 October 1809.
3.4 HANNAH THOMAS (1811-18??), baptized on 17 March 1811.
3.5 PHILIP CORIN THOMAS (1814-1894), baptized at Penzance on 17 April 1814.
He was a mason.
He married Eliza Hocking Nankirves on 23 January 1836 at Madron, and the couple had ten children, one of whom, Benjamin Thomas, emigrated to Australia, and was the great-great grandfather of Diana Heather Gramp, née Thomas, CFHS 2480.
In 1881 he was at 23 Clarence Street, Penzance.
He appears to have remarried and had further children.
Philip died at Penzance in the first quarter of 1894.
He and Eliza had issue, including:
3.5.1 CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS (1846-??), born in 1846.
He was a stonemason.
He married Jane Hutchins Pascoe (whose father had been transported to Australia for a minor crime), and they had eleven children.
3.6 WILLIAM THOMAS (1817-?), baptized on 9 July 1817.
4 JACOB CORIN (1781-1849), baptized at Madron on 14 October 1781.
He became a butcher, and married Margaret Saundry of Paul on 1 June 1820 at Madron.
(or Ann Lukey at Stoke Damerel on 22 May 1806?? - Jacob is described as 'mariner of the Union Trader of Penzance' - she was of Stoke Damerel.
Witnesses were Thomas Jones and William Roberts?
If so, issue may have included Charlotte Corin (bapt. Penzance 21 December 1814, Elizabeth (16 January 1807), William (29 June 1810) and Emily (30 April 1817).)
The family were in Clarence Place in 1841, and Jacob is listed in an 1847 directory as having a butcher's shop at the Market.
Jacob died at the age of 67 on 20 June 1849 and was buried at Heamoor Methodist Chapel.
He was living in Leskinnick Terrace, and Margaret was still living there two years later at the time of the 1851 census.
In 1871, Margaret was at 40 Market Jew Street.
Jacob and Margaret had a large family:
4.1 MARGARET CORIN (1821-1851), baptized at Penzance on 21 January 1821.
She was a dressmaker in 1841.
She died on 26 May 1851 and is buried at Heamoor Methodist Chapel.
4.2 MARY ANN CORIN (1822-?), baptized at the Penzance Wesleyan Church on 8 December 1822.
When she was five, she was rebaptized in Penzance parish church, together with her baby brother Edward.
4.3 JACOB CORIN (1825-1879), baptized at Penzance on 27 March 1825.
He married Ann Ellis Richardson on 30 June 1854.
Jacob and Annie Corin were living in Windsor Terrace, Penzance in 1861 and at 12 Belle Vue Terrace, Penzance, in 1871.
Annie was widowed in the third quarter of 1879.
She and Jacob had three children:
4.3.1 EDWARD CHRISTOPHER CORIN (1856-1941), born at the beginning of 1856.
In 1881 he was a butcher at 48 Belgravia Street, Penzance, along with his brother Thomas.
In 1891 he was living with his mother at Belle Vue Terrace, and with his two children.
In 1929 he was living with Ellen Corin and Annie Ellis Corin at 32 Morrab Road, Penzance.
He died in Penzance in 1941, aged 85.
4.3.1.1 ANNIE ELLIS CORIN (1887-??), born in the third quarter of 1887.
4.3.1.2 HAROLD EDWARD CORIN (1890-??), aged 5 months in 1891.
4.3.2 WILLIAM CHARLES CORIN (1857-?), born in the third quarter of 1857.
4.3.3 THOMAS CORIN (1858-?), born at the end of 1858.
From 1875, he was in partnership with Mary Bull, a 44-year-old spinster, at 22 Bunhill Row, in the parish of St Luke's in the City of London.
He also features in a list of master builders at this address in 1881.
He died, aged 58, in the Holborn registration district in the final quarter of 1885.
4.5 ELIZABETH CORIN (?1831-?), born in 1831/32.
4.6 JOSEPH HOCKIN CORIN (1832-?), aged 8 in 1841.
He followed in his father's footsteps, and was a butcher in 1851.
4.7 HENRY SAUNDRY CORIN (1834-1834), baptized at Gulval on 16 July 1834, who died aged three months and was buried at Penzance on 9 September.
4.8 WILLIAM HENRY SAUNDRY CORIN (1836-?), baptized at Penzance on 23 March 1836.
4.9 RUTH EMILY CORIN (1840-1917), born in the second quarter of 1840 and registered as RUTH CORIN.
In 1871, she was a milliner machinist, living with her mother in Market Jew Street, Penzance.
After her mother's death, she went to live with her sister, Susanna Gee, in Redruth.
In 1901 she described herself as a "lady help".
She remained unmarried, and in 1911 was still living in Redruth with her sister Susan.
She died in the second quarter of 1917.
4.10 SUSAN ELIZABETH CORIN (1842-1914), born in the second quarter of 1842.
She married Edward Samuel Cox Gee of Redruth on 26 April 1868.
He had been born in Antigua, and was a commercial traveller for a fuse works.
He was a Methodist lay preacher, and is said to have "been a religious bully."
(When he was absent from home one day on a commercial trip, Susan, who was usually silent, pronounced "There'll be no Grace said in this house today.")
The couple were living in Redruth in 1901 with four children and Susan's sister, Ruth E Corin, four years older than her (sic).
In 1901, Edward is named as Ebenezer S C Gee, and it was in this name that his death was registered in the first quarter of 1911.
In 1911, Susan was at Plain-an-gwarry, Redruth (with the correct age, and daughters Emily and Helena).
She died in the second quarter of 1914.
4.10.1 EMILY MAUD GEE (1870-19??), a school assistant, born at the end of 1870 and aged "29" in 1901.
In 1911, she and Helena were still at home, with their widowed mother and their spinster aunt Ruth.
4.10.2 ALFRED CHARLES GEE (1874-19??), born at Redruth in the third quarter of 1874.
He is said to have "left Cornwall as soon as he could and vowed he'd never again cross the Tamar".
He was a dental anaesthetist.
He married Bertha Beatrice Dazeley, from Bedford, at Bedford in the second quarter of 1900.
He was at 12 Penryn Street, Redruth in 1911.
He and Bertha had two children:
4.10.2.1 DONALD ALFRED GEE (1901-19??), born at Redruth in the third quarter of 1901.
4.10.2.2 FRANK LESLIE GEE (1904-19??), born at in the third quarter of 1904.
4.10.3 HELENA BEATRICE GEE (1878-19??), a stationery shop assistant, born in the first quarter of 1878 and aged 23 in 1901.
In 1911, she was a teacher at a private school, and living at home with her mother and Emily, her sister.
4.10.4 ARTHUR HAROLD GEE (1880-1955), an architect, aged 20 in 1901, who subsequently went to East Africa.
He married Emily Florence Born (9 October 1892-1 January 1973).
He was a major in the 4th King's African Rifles during the First World War.
Emily (known as Babs) was an actress, but during the war, she served as a hospital sister.
The couple met while Arthur was visiting a friend in hospital.
Babs went to Uganda on the 'Fishing Fleet' (single women seeking husbands) and they married 'off the boat' on 9 December 1921.
Arthur worked in Uganda and Kenya, surveying local chiefs' lands, and was trapped there during the Second World War.
Babs would visit him for eighteen months at a time, but was trapped in England until after 1945.
He died at Newton Ferrers, Devon, on 25 February 1955 and was buried at Revelstoke, Devon.
Arthur and Florence had daughters, born in Uganda.
The younger was
4.10.4.2 PATIENCE ELIZABETH GEE (1928-2012), born on 25 September 1928.
She married John M B Gapper in the Plympton registration district in 1956.
She died on 13 February 2012.
4.10.5 HENRY HOWARD GEE (1882-19??), an ironmonger's apprentice, born in Redruth in the third quarter of 1882 and aged 18 in 1901.
5 MARGARET CORIN (1784-?), baptized on 17 October 1784.
She may have married William Weymouth at Madron on 10 June 1803.
(A Jacob Corin was one of the witnesses.)
6 WILLIAM CORIN (178?-1786), who died in infancy and was buried at Penzance on 16 January 1786.
7 WILLIAM CORIN (1786-18??), baptized on 10 December 1786.
He was a labourer, and married Grace Betty at Madron on 1 February 1809.
She died when she was 45, and was buried at Penzance on 25 November 1824).
They had five (or six) children:
7.1 ANN TONKIN CORIN (1809-?), baptized at Penzance on 22 October 1809.
Perhaps she was the same as the Jane Tonkin Corin who married a Peter Burgess on 6 July 1833.
7.2 WILLIAM CORIN (1811-1812), baptized on 24 March 1811 and buried on 13 November 1812.
7.3 JACOB CORIN (1812-1812), baptized on 2 August and buried on 30 November 1812.
7.4 WILLIAM TONKIN CORIN (1815-1882), baptized at Penzance on 24 March 1815.
He married Elizabeth (?Griffiths) at Exeter in 1839.
In 1875 he was a shopkeeper at 85 Neath Road, Swansea.
In 1881, he and his wife were living at Cornish Court, Exeter, with their 11-year-old grandson, William Godbeer.
William died in Exeter in 1882.
His wife survived until 1903.
They had five children:
to have "been a religious bully."
(When he was absent from home one day on a commercial trip, Susan, who was usually silent, pronounced "There'll be no Grace said in this house today.")