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. 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 CORIN (?1855-19??), born 1855/56. 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 two children:
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 CORIN (?1857-?), born 1857/58.
4.3.3 THOMAS CORIN (?1858-?), born 1858/59.
4.4 EDWARD CORIN (1827-1885?), baptized on 28 July 1827, and again on Christmas Day of that year. He was a milliner. He married Frances Dorcas Wall from Stroud in Gloucestershire in Shroeditch in the first quarter of 1855..
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 probably died 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-?) who is probably the same as the RALPH CORIN, born in 1832/33, listed in the 1841 census returns. In the 1851 returns, his name is given as Joseph. He became a butcher, and it is possible that he changed his name after his father's death.
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 EMILY CORIN (1840-?), born in 1840 and also known as RUTH CORIN.
4.10 SUSAN ELIZABETH CORIN (1842-?), born in the second quarter of 1842.
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 in 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:
7.4.1 MARK GRIFFITHS CORIN (1843-?), born at Exeter in 1843. He married Jane West in Exeter in 1864. They had four children:
7.4.1.1 WILLIAM THOMAS CORIN (1864-?), born at Exeter in 1864.
7.4.1.2 ELLEN ELIZABETH CORIN (1867-?), born in Holborn in the third quarter of 1867.
7.4.1.3 ARTHUR ROBERT CORIN (1870-?), born in Holborn in the first quarter of 1870.
7.4.1.4 MABEL FANNY CORIN (1876-?), born in Westminster in the third quarter of 1876.
7.4.2 LAURA GRIFFITHS CORIN (1846-?), born in 1846, who married William Alborn Godbeer in the first quarter of 1869.
7.4.3 JANE CORIN (1849-1855), born at Exeter in 1849, who died in 1855.
7.4.4 ELIZABETH CORIN (1851-?), born at Exeter in 1851, who married Thomas Evans at Exeter in 1874.
7.4.5 FLORENCE CORIN (1857-1859), born in 1857 and dying at Exeter in 1859.
7.5 JACOB CORIN (1817-1824), baptized on 30 May 1817, and buried on 24 February 1824.
8 PHILIP CORIN (1789-1791), baptized at Penzance on 25 November 1789 and buried at Penzance on 29 November 1791.