Edwin Corin (1807-1867)

EDWIN CORIN (1807-1867), son of Joseph Corin, was born at Redruth in 1807 and baptized there on 12 July. Like his brother Philip, he was a brewer, and continued in that trade after his father's death in 1832. Like Philip, his success was marred by gambling with the Bolithos. However, while Philip was in the midst of his bankruptcy proceedings in 1838, Edwin married Ann Paul of Rosemorran, Gulval. The wedding took place at St Mary's Church, Penzance on 13 March 1838, a bare week before notice of his brother's bankruptcy appeared in the "London Gazette".

Ann Paul was the second of three daughters of Nicholas Paul of Rosemorran, who farmed at Trevarrack, by his first wife, Ann (née Thomas). She was born in Gulval on 12 May 1807. The Pauls were a very old-established Gulval family, who can be traced back to John Paule, whose son Richard was born in 1607.

About the time of his marriage, Edwin moved to 4 Leskinnick Street, Penzance, one of a row of modest but elegant houses which had been built about 1834 by Francis Paynter, a local solicitor. He continued to live there until his death. (However, on Census Day 1841, he and baby Edwin were not at home. They were with Edwin's mother, Elizabeth, in Budock.) Ann's sister, Elizabeth Paul, who remained a spinster, lodged with the family. She was a dressmaker. So did her uncle, Henry Thomas, who was a farmer, until the 1850's. In 1861, Ann's 82-year-old aunt, Jane Gartrell (or Sartrell or Garter) was staying with the family.

Edwin had a small wine and spirit shop in Market Jew Street. In the 1840's he was appointed beadle, or overseer, of the borough markets. This post included responsibility for several markets. As well as the market in the new Market Hall, which had been completed in 1838, there was the green market and the fish market (both, incidentally, referred to by the public health inspector in 1849 as 'serious pests'!). Markets took place on Thursdays and Saturdays (with the addition of a 'very trifling' market on Tuesdays), and Edwin was thus able to continue as a brewer, having both occupations until his death from apoplexy on Thursday 17 January 1867 at home in Leskinnick Street.

His widow, Anne, shortly afterwards went to live opposite her son and daughter-in-law in Sydenham, Kent, living at 'Woodville', 153 Devonshire Road, Forest Hill with her daughter Emma. She survived her late husband for 25 years, dying of epidemic influenza in her eighty-fifth year on 18 January 1892.

1 EDWIN PAUL CORIN (1839-1887) was born on 28 May 1839, whose career is described in the next section.

2 EMMA ELIZABETH JANE CORIN (1840-1906), also known as EMILY PAUL CORIN, was named after her mother's younger and elder sisters. She was born at home in Leskinnick Terrace on 31 December 1840, and was baptized on 2 May 1841 at Gulval. She remained single, and seems to have accompanied Edwin to London. She lived with him and his wife after they married in 1862 and spent much time with him and his young family. After her father's death, she was joined by her mother, and moved with Edwin and his family to Devonshire Road in Forest Hill. She was known as the 'Little Aunt', and she and her mother lived at 'Woodville', (and for a while with her brother at 'Shelford'), in Devonshire Road. She was still at 'Woodville' when her mother died in 1892. She moved to Bexhill-on-Sea around 1898. In 1901, she was boarding at 38 St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, run by the Temple sisters (Sarah, Lucy and Margaret). She died in the spring of 1906 in the Battle registration district.

3 NICHOLAS PAUL CORIN (1847-1852), born in 1847. He was baptized at Gulval on 19 March 1848. He died in childhood in 1852.

5 WALTER THOMAS CORIN (1850-1850), who died shortly after birth, in the last quarter of 1850.