Edwin Paul Corin (1839-1887)

EDWIN PAUL CORIN (1839-1887) was the eldest child of Edwin Corin and his wife Ann, née Paul. He was born on 28 May 1839 at 4 Leskinnick Street, Penzance, and baptized at Gulval on 14 July.

He left Penzance before 1862 and moved to London, where he worked for a time as a commercial traveller. He went to live in Battersea. This suburb was described at that time as "a dingy, dubious, debatable land, desperately cheap and desperately nasty." Here he met Eliza Knight, the daughter of a local carpenter and builder. He married her on 8 April 1862 at the newly-built church of Christ Church, Battersea. The marriage was only the sixth to be solemnized in this church. Their marriage was by archbishop's licence dated 31 March. The witnesses to the marriage included James Perrow. He could well have been the architect James Perrow of London who designed St Peter's Church at Newlyn, and who died in Penzance in the following year. (A distant link is that the Vicar of Newlyn at that time was John Pope Vibert, son of the clerk of works who had shared the office of waywarden with Jacob Corin.)

A letter written shortly after his marriage casts some light on Edwin's circumstances. He was writing because he was obliged to stay in town on the Friday waiting for a Mr Oppenheimer. Edwin's sister, Emma, was staying with Eliza at the time. The letter shows Edwin deeply involved in the Brethren movement: he had been at the Lavender Road meeting the previous evening.

Life as a commercial traveller was merely a rung in the ladder of Edwin's success. In 1866, he established himself in a shop in Godfrey's Court, Milk Street, in the City, as an importer of foreign goods. In 1871 he was at 19 Noble Street, and by 1875 he had moved to premises at 17 Addle Street, near London Wall, which he shared with Walsh and Brierley, a firm of elastic fabric manufacturers. By 1878, he had moved again, but this time only along the road to the ground floor of number 14, opposite Brewers' Hall. Here he shared premises with John Smith, a wholesale milliner. He was also described as a Master Wholesale Fancy Sealer and Button Importer, and he imported gold and silver buttons, medallions, jewellery, silk ribbon, foreign and fancy goods, which he supplied to royalty, among other clients. He managed this business until his death, sending his sons abroad to establish contacts in France (where he had agents in Lyons and Paris) and in South America. The business was clearly lucrative enough to allow Paul and Harry £500 p.a. each.

In the course of trade, Edwin associated with the Spink family, silver dealers of 2 Gracechurch Street, and this relationship developed into ties by marriage. Another business contact was Edward Rubie ('woollen, bradford, manchester and tailor's trimmings warehouseman' of 39 Noble Street (1878), 6-7 Noble Street (1887) and 28 City Road (1912)). Edward Rubie lived in Main Road, Sidcup in 1894. (The company continued to operate at 90 Wardour Street up to 1954.) Edward Rubie was so impressed by Edwin Paul Corin that he named one of his sons Edwin and another Corin Rubie.

The family were Plymouth Brethren, and the Rubies and Spinks were of the same persuasion. Several of Edwin's children were sent to Ebor School, run on brethren principles in Cambridge.

Edwin may have been associated with the firm of Corin and Bull, milliners, at 22 Bunhill Row, EC, which was run by Edward Corin of Camborne from 1875 onwards. (There was also the firm of Corin and Paul, builders, at 32 Canonbury Road, London, N, in 1882).

The business slowly folded after Edwin's death in 1887. His eldest son, Edwin Philip, took the business over, and it changed its name to Paul and Corin, Importers of Buttons, and after 1890 to R.J. Paul and Co. R.J. Paul was probably Richard James Paul.

Edwin Paul Corin and his wife Eliza lived at St John's Road, Battersea, from their marriage in 1862 until 1864. In this year, he moved to 2 The Villas (also known as Modena Villas) in Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, which his father-in-law had just built. In 1871 the family had three female servants living in: Phoebe Wilcox (53), the family nurse, May Miln, the cook, and Elizabeth Smith, the housemaid. At some time in the 1870's, Edwin sold 2 The Villas to a hop merchant, and moved to 'Shelford', 182 Devonshire Road

But the 1881 Census suggests 65 Devonshire Rd

, named after a farm on Foulness. In 1881, Sarah Coles (47) was the nurse, Ellen Ralph (30), who had worked for Philip Knight in 1871, was the cook, and Emma Carter (24) was housemaid.

In 1887, Edwin collapsed while preaching on the text "For me to live is Christ and to die gain" at an old friend's funeral in North London. He was taken to the surgery of Hewer, Calthorp and Hewer at 33 Highbury New Park. He died there a few days later, on 6 May 1887.

At Edwin's death, his youngest child was only seven, and it is curious that in 1888 (alone) the Post Office Directory lists an Elizabeth Corin as a 'wardrobe dealer' at 408 Southwark Park Road, SE. Edwin left £6669 in his will.

After Edwin's death, his wife and younger children lived on at 'Shelford'. By 1901 however, Eliza, together with Harry, Grace, Rosalie and Herbert, had moved to 29 Holwood Road, near Bromley High Street. Later, Eliza moved to the Spinks' house at 'Furzefield', Chislehurst, Kent. From there, she moved to rooms in a number of towns in the south. On Census Day 1911, she was one of four old ladies staying in lodgings run by the three Temple sisters at 38 St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She died at 36 Wellington Square, Hastings, on 13 May 1916, aged 79. At her death there was some £30000 left for division among her children - or £1912/14/2 net.

For a time the couple lived near Vine Lodge, Sevenoaks, where Annie's parents lived.

Edwin became a dental surgeon. (His brothers Frederick and Herbert John were also dentists.) By 1898 the couple had moved to 12 avenue d'Antin, Paris, where Edwin had his practice in the rue Washington. He was also an artist. Paintings of Westminster Abbey by him were hung in the Paris Académie in 1923 and 1924. In July 1916 he retired to 3 Lushington Road, Eastbourne, Sussex. (However, a land transaction in 1920 gives his address as 9 Old Burlington Street, London, where his brother Jack was in practice.) Later he returned to Paris until 1938.

His wife, Annie, died in Paris on 28 December 1938. She is buried at Saint-Germain. Edwin came back to live with his son Edwin John Ronald in Bromley. He died in April 1940 at Chislehurst, Kent.

1.1 EDWIN JOHN RONALD CORIN (1891-1976), born on 22 October 1891 at Sevenoaks. He held the rank of Captain, Indian Army, during the First World War. During the Second World War he was involved in security (MI5), and was decorated by the Norwegians and the Dutch. He lived in Paris until he married Emily Winifred Campbell of Sunderland, County Durham, on 28 October 1919. He was a shipbroker, and Chairman and Managing Director of Niroc Shipping Services Ltd., 11/13 Gracechurch Lane, London EC3, and also a member of the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange. He lived at Appletons, Ninfield Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. Emily Winifred Corin, née Campbell, died on 24 November 1965, and Ronald died on 6 August 1976 in Sussex.

Ronald and Winifred had one son:

1.1.1 EDWIN JOHN CAMPBELL CORIN (1926-), known as John, born at Bromley, Kent, on 15 August 1926. He married Erica White on 11 September 1953, and in 1968 they were living at 10 Hillside Road, Sevenoaks, Kent. John worked with his father in Niroc Shipping Services Ltd. and was also a member of the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange. He later worked at the District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells. He retired and lives at Cheyneys, Vicarage Road, Burwash Common, Etchingham, Sussex.

1.2 FARLEY GORDON PAUL CORIN (1898-1973), known as 'Chip', was born at 12 avenue d'Antin, Paris on 7 March 1898. Despite being below age, he joined up for the First World War with REME, and saw service in Thessaloniki, Greece. He married Marjorie Victoria Horner on 25 April 1925 at Eastbourne - she was five days short of her 28th birthday. During the Second World War he held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was Military Governor in a province in Germany. He was manager of the Passenger Booking Department of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at 41 rue Capucine, Paris until 1940, and then at 122 Leadenhall Street, London EC3. Chip and his family left their home in Paris with only their clothes and a suitcase each in 1940 to avoid the German occupation. They landed in Newhaven, and lived in Meads Cottage, Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. Later they moved to 'Antrona', Maple Walk in the same village. Marjorie V. Corin died on 23 September 1959 while on holiday at Veere, Holland, and Farley went to live at 4 Landeryon Gardens, Penzance, where he remarried in 1962 to Margery Curtis. He died at Penzance on 17 August 1973 and was cremated at Truro six days later. Margery died on 12 February 2006.

Farley G.P. and Marjorie V. Corin had one son:

1.2.1 GEOFFREY PAUL CORIN (1930-), born on 21 May 1930 at Lee, Blackheath, Kent. He was baptized at Churt, Surrey, where he stayed at Lloyd George's farm, where he subsequently got to know Christopher Robin (the son of A.A. Milne). He lived in Paris until 1940. Geoffrey was educated at Haileybury and ISC School, and did military service with the Royal Signals. He married Mary Brenda Houghton, born in 1931, on 1 October 1955 at Knightsbridge, London. They lived at Robin Hill, Berwick, Polegate, Sussex in 1968, where Geoffrey was an agent for the Nestlé Company. In 1965 they acquired Church Farm, Selmeston, Polegate, Sussex, and opened 'Corins', a licensed restaurant. Geoff later retired, and they moved to 47 Meads St., Eastbourne. They have three children:

1.2.1.1 SARAH ANN CORIN (b.1959), born on 8 January 1959 at Eastbourne. She married Robert Mills at Arlington, Sussex, on 28 April 1984. She lives in Egham, Surrey.

Sarah and Robert Mills had a son and a daughter:

1.2.1.1.1 ALEXANDER LEWIS MILLS (b.1989), born on 27 March 1989.

1.2.1.1.2 CAROLINE ANNA MILLS (b.1993), born on 28 August 1993.

1.2.1.2 CLAIRE VICTORIA CORIN (b.1960), born 8 January 1960, also at Eastbourne. She married Jonathan Drazin, Ph.D., at Arlington, Sussex, on 30 April 1983. They lived for a time at Bishop's Stortford, Herts. In 1990 they were at 25 Meadow View, Marlow Bottom, Marlow. They later moved to 101 Dropmore Road, Burnham. They have two children:

1.2.1.2.1 WILLIAM DRAZIN (b.1988), born on 19 May 1988.

1.2.1.2.2 SOPHIA DRAZIN (b.1990), born on 30 July 1990.

1.2.1.3 PHILIP PAUL CORIN (b.1967), born 22 June 1967 at Selmeston. He lived at Eastbourne, where he had a theatrical agency, 'Highlife' until 1990. In 1993, he was managing a restaurant at Number 2 Terminal at Heathrow Airport. He then joined Pizza Hut and became franchise manager for the UK. He moved to 11 Station Road, Chertsey, Surrey, with his fiancée Emma Gould, who had been born on 9 October 1969. They married on 8 December 2000.

2 PAUL CORIN (1864-1896), born on 10 April 1864 at his parents' house at St John's Road, Battersea. In 1881 he was living with his parents in Forest Hill, and working as a clerk in a wholesale tea house. Soon after, he went to South America. There are letters surviving from Paul to his mother describing a journey he made in January/February 1883 travelling with a Mr James Hardy buying sheep and cattle from various ranches south of Buenos Aires, before being recalled to "the office". He also resided in Corrientes, Argentina. Later he moved to Paraguay, and finally to Gualeguay, Argentina. He did not marry. He died of meningitis at Buenos Aires on 11 July 1896, and was buried at the Chacarita Cemetery there two days later. At the time of his death he was described as an accountant, and was living at Caseros y Solis 1315.

3 HARRY CORIN (1865-1905) was born at 2 The Villas, Forest Hill, on 12 May 1865. He also went to South America, travelling on passport 2533, issued on 18 January 1893. He was an accountant at the Sao Paolo Bank, Rio de Janeiro (and later, in 1905, at the London and River Plate Bank). On 21 January 1897 Harry married Hilda Wagner, who had been born on 29 October 1876, at Para, Brazil. Their only child, a baby son, died on 17 January 1899 at Para, and Hilda Corin died at Para ten days later. He was staying with his mother in Bromley in 1901, presumably on leave. Harry returned to Rio de Janeiro, where he died of a fever on 1 January 1905.

4 JENNIE CORIN (1866-1937) was born at 2 The Villas, Forest Hill on 9 April 1866. In 1889 she married Charles Frederick Spink at Lewisham: this was only a little time before her brother Edwin married Charles' sister Annie. Charles was some eight years older than Jennie, and described himself as a numismatist. The couple were at 'Ivy Bank', 1 Summer Hill Villas, Chislehurst, in 1891, and later moved to 'Furzefield', Chislehurst, Kent (where they were in 1916). They also lived at 'Beechenhurst', Aldwink, Bognor Regis, Sussex, and at 'Chy Carne', St Ives, Cornwall (from 1919 to 1929). Jenny Spink died at St Leonard's, Sussex, on 6 November 1937, and Charles remarried, dying at Worthing, Sussex, on 19 June 1945.

4.1 IRENE ELIZABETH CORIN SPINK (1891-1934), born on 9 May 1891 at Chislehurst, Kent. She married a cousin, Hans Frederick Hofer, from Zurich. The Hofer family had originated in Langnau in Emmental, Canton Berne. Hans, known to the English side of the family as Fred, was the eldest son of Hans Hofer, who ran the family business of Hofer and Co., lithographers, in Zurich, and his wife Elizabeth, née Spink, Irene's aunt. (The Spink family visited Switzerland while travelling to Menton, and made contact with Plymouth Brethren there.) Fred Hofer was born at the Spinks', his maternal grandparents' home, Vine Lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1887. Switzerland was at that time not considered adequate for a first confinement! The delivery was in any case a difficult one, by forceps, and it was thought that there might have been a connection between this and the nervous condition which he subsequently suffered from from time to time during his life. He became a printer, like his father. During the Great War he came over to England in order to marry. He had dual nationality, but having been commissioned into a Swiss Army Mountain Unit in 1908, he avoided having to serve in the British Army. Fred and Irene were married at the East London Tabernacle on 18 April 1918.

On medical advice, he took up farming. In 1920 Charles and Jenny Spink assisted him in acquiring Parc an Creet Farm, on the cliff to the west of St Ives, where Fred and Irene lived. The Pulfords also lived nearby.

Fred and Irene Hofer left St Ives in the late 1920's, and Fred returned to the printing trade, moving in April 1929 to Zumikon in the canton of Zurich with the children, where Irene named their house 'Rosewall' after the hill in St Ives. After a couple of years, in about 1930, they moved to the rear section of Im Berghof, Küsnacht, also in the canton of Zurich, where 'Aunt Lizzie', Fred's mother, lived. Aunt Lizzie died in March 1932, and in May 1933, Fred and Irene's daughter, Rosemary, died. Fred's sister, Bessie Brockhaus, also died in the same year in Berlin. It was at Küsnacht that Irene died on 19 June 1934, a week after giving birth to a still-born infant, two previous infants having only lived a few hours.

Fred Hofer subsequently remarried in London on 27 February 1936, and his second wife, Lydia bore him two daughters (Elizabeth Mary, born on 18 March 1940 and June Esther Grace, born on 20 June 1941). The family lived in Horsham, but returned to Zurich in 1953. Fred Hofer died in Zurich on 3 July 1976. Lydia died on 17 October 1980.

Fred and Irene Hofer had three children:

4.1.1 JEAN HOFER (1920-1924), who died at the age of four.

4.1.2 JOHN HOFER (1925-), born in St Ives on 24 May 1925. In childhood he moved to Zumikon, and later to Küsnacht, returning to England in 1938, where he attended school in Horsham, Sussex. Having dual nationality, he served in the British Army (Royal Signals) from 1943 to 1947, the last two years on Prisoner of War work, attaining the rank of Staff-Sergeant Interpreter. After the war he married Marianne Rosalia Hafner, at Reigate, Surrey, on 27 September 1952. Marianne had been born at Novi Sad, north-west of Belgrade. Her father was a Swiss Methodist pastor, and her mother was of Yugoslav and Hungarian descent. Marianne's father had at some time also ministered and lived in Küsnacht, and John and Marianne had known each other in childhood. John Hofer subsequently trained as a management accountant (FCMA). The couple lived in England, and John was Group Company Secretary and Director of Finance of a small group of engineering companies. From 1954 the couple were at 12 Bourne End Road, Northwood, Middlesex. In 2003 they moved to 8 Old Town Farm, Great Missenden, Bucks, HP16 9PA. They have three children:

4.1.2.1 RUTH MARIANNE HOFER (b.1955), born on 29 September 1955 at Chiswick. She trained in as a nursery nurse at Norland, and on 24 August 1985 she married William Haines, a graduate in political science, who later studied theology in America under the auspices of the Unification Church. William and Ruth Haines have two children:

4.1.2.1.1 ROBERT SAMUEL HAINES (b.1988), born on 24 November 1988 at Streatham, London.

4.1.2.1.2 JONATHAN ANDREW HAINES (b.1990), born on 25 April 1990 at Watford, Herts.

4.1.2.2 DAVID JOHN HOFER (b.1958), born on 30 June 1958 at Chiswick. He has a business designing and installing sound amplification and deaf loop systems based at Kensworth, Dunstable,and in 1995 was living at 20 Poplar Rd., Kenilworth, Beds., LU6 3RS. He married Petra Maria Hanselmann, at Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, on 27 August 1988. Petra is a qualified hotelier. The couple have three children, and live in Germany.

4.1.2.2.1 JAMES JOHN HOFER (b.1989), born on 24 September 1989 at Luton, Bedforshire.

4.1.2.2.2 STEFAN DAVID HOFER (b.1990), born on 21 September 1990 at Luton, Bedfordshire.

4.1.2.2.3 TIMOTHY PAUL HAFNER HOFER.

4.1.2.3 PETER MICHAEL HOFER (b.1965), born on 12 February 1965 at Northwood, Middlesex. In 1993 he was living at home, and working with the jewellery firm of Bulgari, Bond Street, having worked for Cartier at Harrods, after studying jewellery marketing. He later started his own business, Hofer & Co., in London EC1. He married Georgina Childs. They have two children:

4.1.2.3.1 CHARLES HOFER

4.1.2.3.2 JOSEPHINE HOFER

4.1.3 JENNIE ELIZABETH ROSEMARY HOFER (1927-1933), born on 18 January 1927 at St Ives. At the age of six, after the family had moved to Switzerland, she and her brother John fell ill with measles. Whilst still not fully recovered, she contracted pneumonia, and died on 3 May 1933.

4.2 EVA GRACE SPINK (1893-1977), born on 22 March 1893 in Kent. She married Stephen Edward Pulford in London on 27 May 1920. He had worked in banking before the War, but had decided on a change of profession. Eva's father supported them in a move to Cornwall, and Stephen took over a chicken farm near his parents-in-law in St Ives. His brother-in-law Fred Hofer farmed nearby. Later Stephen Pulford was called to the Church of England ministry, entering the London College of Divinity in 1925. He was ordained in Buckingham, and served a curacy in Iver (1927-29). He then became an army chaplain at the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, Hampshire from 1929 to 1932. He was Vicar of Nutley, Sussex, from 1930 to 1940. He was at St Keverne, Cornwall, from 1941 to 1944, and after a short period in Kensal Green, moved to Drayton Parslow, near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. He later moved westwards, becoming rector of Linton with Upton Bishop in Herefordshire and then of Longhope in Gloucestershire. After his retirement Eva and Stephen moved to The School House, Bridstow, Ross-on-Wye, where Stephen died on 13 September 1973, being buried at Upton Bishop on the 17th. Eva Pulford died on 11 September 1977 at Bridstow, Ross-on-Wye.

Stephen and Eva Pulford had three children:

4.2.1 MARY LOIS PULFORD (1922-), born on 2 August 1922 at St Ives. She is a craftswoman, who lived with her parents at the School House, Bridstow. In 1992, her brother Paul moved into the School House, and Lois moved to a town house at 7 New Street, Ross-on-Wye.

4.2.2 STEPHEN IAN PULFORD (1925-), born on 21 September 1925 at Carbis Bay, St Ives. He married Hilaire Field at Whittington, near Cheltenham, Gloucs. in June 1956. He also joined the Church of England ministry, and was ordained on 21 September 1956 at Hereford. Between 1959 and 1996 he was Rector of Coberley and Cowley with Colebourne, near Cheltenham, and on 22 June 1984 after 25 years' incumbency was appointed an Honorary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral. In 1989 he was also Rural Dean of Cirencester. Ian and Hilaire Pulford have two children:

4.2.2.1 FELICITY SUSAN PULFORD (b.1957), born at Hereford on 9 July 1957. She married Lesley Francis Taylor on 23 August 1986 at Coberley, Gloucs. They have two sons.

4.2.2.2 CHRISTOPHER PULFORD (b.1959), born on 9 May 1959 at Cirencester. He attended Rendcomb College at Cirencester, and subsequently read zoology at Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating in 1981. He married Jill Foster Taylor at Theydon Bois, Essex, on 11 September 1982. After theological training at Trinity College, Bristol, he was ordained on 30 September 1984 in Liverpool, serving at St Peter's Parr, St Helen's. In August 1987 he became Chaplain at Berkhamsted School.

Christopher and Jill have three children:

4.2.2.2.1 EDWARD STEPHEN CHARLES PULFORD (b.1986), born on 30 January 1986.

4.2.2.2.2 HARRIET PULFORD (b.1987), born on 8 August 1987.

4.2.2.2.3 JAMES PULFORD (b.1989), born on 19 July 1989.

4.2.3 PAUL HERBERT PULFORD (1931-2006), born on 15 September 1931 in the military hospital at Netley, Hants, where his father was chaplain. He attended a number of schools as his parents moved around the country, and in 1954 started a poultry farm on the rectory glebe land at Linton, Herefordshire.

He married Ruth Palmer on 23 August 1954 at Longhope, Gloucestershire. He and Ruth built the house at Little Falcon, Linton, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, where bred pigs. He retired in 1992 to his parents' former home at the School House, Bridstow, where his sister Lois had been living. He died on the eve of his 75th birthday. Paul and Ruth Pulford had two children:

4.2.3.1 JEREMY PULFORD (b.1956), born on 29 March 1956 at Gloucester.

4.2.3.2 CLAIRE PULFORD (b.1959), born on 31 October 1959 at Gloucester.

4.3 KATHLEEN ALICE SPINK (1894-1976), born on 7 September 1894 in Kent. She married her cousin Johann Jakob (or John Jacob) Hofer, born on 28 June 1892, the brother of Frederick Hofer, Irene's husband. They lived in England. John Hofer died on 31 October 1963, and Kathleen Hofer lived on at Rydal, Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, and subsequently at 'Chy Carne', Goodrich, Ross-on-Wye. She died without issue at Hereford on 22 May 1976.

5 WILLIAM CORIN (1867-1929) was born at 2 The Villas, Devonshire Road, Forest Hill on 13 October 1867. He was educated at King's College School, London, and then studied engineering at University College, London from 1884 to 1887, receiving several prizes. After working in Glasgow and London, he travelled to Tasmania, arriving at Launceston on 26 November 1895 from England via Melbourne, to take up his appointment as City Electrical Engineer with Launceston City Council. Launceston was first lighted by electricity on 10 December 1895, and William was responsible for the original work at the Duck Reach Power Station on the South Esk River, and also for pioneering work in connection with hydro-electric development in Tasmania. Corin Street in Launceston is named after him. In 1906 he advised the Fiji Government as Consultant Electrical Engineer. In 1908 he was appointed Chief Electrical Engineer in the Public Works Department, Sydney, N.S.W., and he was later sent abroad by the New South Wales government to study the latest hydro-electric developments overseas. The U.S. Immigration Service records show him arriving at Ellis Island "in transit" on the Caledonia from Glasgow on 3 March 1914. He was registered as 5'11½" tall, with clear compexion, grey hair and blue eyes.

He resigned in 1923, and until his death in Sydney six years later he practised as a private consulting engineer.

William Corin was a brilliant mathematician and engineer, and a pioneer of hydro-electricity in Australia. The Corin Dam on the Cotter River near Canberra commemorates his work. He was a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Member of the American Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Member of the Institution of Engineers of Australia.

On 21 January 1896 William married Kathleen Susan Sleeman at Launceston, Tasmania. She had been born at Southsea, Hampshire, on 2 September 1866, the daughter of Captain Richard Henry Sleeman, R.N. and Louisa, née Dreweatt, of Devonshire, Hampshire and Tasmania. Shortly after the birth of their daughter, however, Kathleen Corin died, at Launceston on 26 April 1897, aged 30.

William subsequently remarried, on 12 March 1900 at Scottsdale, Tasmania, to Ellen Louise Unwin. Ellen had been born at Maskeliya, Ceylon on 17 August 1876, the daughter of Sydney Hope Unwin and Madelina Louise Unwin, née White, of Somerset and Scottsdale, Tasmania. William lived at 7 Hill Street, Launceston, Tasmania after 10 January 1901; at 'Rosemorran', Wahroonga, Sydney until 17 September 1926, and then at 261 Mowbray Road, Chatswood, Sydney, N.S.W., where he died on 2 March 1929. His wife Ellen survived him, dying at Hobart on 4 May 1954.

(For fuller details of William's life, see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' (ed. N.B. Nairn (M.U.P. 1981)), Vol 8, pp.115-6.

5.2 KATHLEEN RUTH CORIN (1901-1983), born on 23 August 1901 at Launceston, Tasmania. She was educated at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, N.S.W., and graduated from Sydney University in 1924. She held the degrees of M.B., Ch.M., M.R.C.A., and practised as a radiologist at Taree, N.S.W. She married Alfred Douglas Roy Shedden, son of Alderman Hugh McLachlan Shedden and Edith Shedden, née Newton, at Newcastle, N.S.W., on 28 March 1942. He had been born on 1 April 1893 at Newcastle, N.S.W. and died at Taree on 11 January 1971. Dr. K. R. Corin Shedden retired to Port Macquarie, and died at Sydney on 23 June 1983. She and her husband are buried at Port Macquarie.

Roy and Ruth Shedden had a son:

5.2.1 IAN DOUGLAS CORIN SHEDDEN (b.1945), born at Newcastle, N.S.W. on 27 March 1945. He married Eleanor Susan Judd, daughter of the Revd Bernard George Judd, MBE, and Mrs Ida Judd at Sydney on 9 January 1970. They live at Ebenezer, near Windsor, N.S.W., where Ian has a horticultural property and business. They have a daughter:

5.2.1.1 MARGARET SUSAN SHEDDEN (b.1982), born on 8 April 1982 at Sydney.

5.3 WILLIAM GERARD PHILIP CORIN (1903-1964), born on 31 March 1903 at Launceston, Tasmania. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney, N.S.W. He married Muriel Jessie Miller, who had been born on 24 August 1901 at Marrickville, N.S.W. She was the daughter of William Arthur Miller and Elizabeth, née Williams. The marriage took place at Sydney on 5 October 1929. Gerard Corin was a Departmental Manager of the British General Electric Company. The family lived at 43 Macquarie Street, Chatswood, N.S.W. He died on 4 October 1964 at Wahroonga, and is buried in the Corin family grave at Northern Suburbs Cemetery, Sydney. Muriel Corin moved to Warrimoo, Blue Mountains, N.S.W., dying on 24 November 1985 at Castle Hill, Sydney, after a long illness.

Gerard and Muriel Corin had two sons:

5.3.1 WILLIAM JOHN CORIN (1930-1931), born at Sydney on 4 July 1930, who died there on 15 December 1931.

5.3.2 RICHARD ARTHUR CORIN (b.1933), born on 20 February 1933 at Sydney. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School), North Sydney, and he graduated from the University of New South Wales, Sydney with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering. He married Isobel Mary Pople, daughter of Frederic Henry Pople and Grace Isobel May, née Claybrough, of Woonona, N.S.W. at Ryde, Sydney, on 20 January 1962. Isobel had been born at Armidale, N.S.W., on 4 August 1936, and was a schoolteacher. From 1970 to 1988 she was working as teacher and librarian at Emu Plains Primary School. Richard Corin became an engineer with the Postmaster General's Department, and a General Manager with Telecom Australia, working in Sydney, retiring in February 1991. He is an M.I.E. Aust., and a Member of the Council of the University of New South Wales from 1958 to 1990. See Who's Who in Australia (1988), p.217. The family lived at 2 Gregory Terrace, Lapstone, near Glenbrook, N.S.W.

Isobel died on 20 December 2003, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer.

Richard and Isobel Corin have three children:

5.3.2.1 MICHELE ANNE CORIN (b.1963), born at Penrith, Sydney, on 18 January 1963. She attended Tara Anglican School for Girls, and graduated as Bachelor of Business, majoring in Marketing Studies. In 1991 she was a Brand Manager with Juvena, a cosmetics firm, and by 1993 was Marketing Manager in Australia for Christian Dior Cosmetics, and subsequently Communications Manager for Lend Lease Australia Pty. Ltd and Clayton Utz. She married Ronald Austin Hirst at St Stephen's Church, Watsons Bay, Sydney on 4 April 1998. He is an architect, project manager, property manager and lawyer. Ronald and Michele live at Annandale, Sydney, N.S.W.

They have a son:

5.3.2.1.1 JACK FREDERIK CORIN HIRST (b.2004), born at Randwick, N.S.W. on 9 June 2004.

5.3.2.2 DAVID PAUL CORIN (b.1964), born at Penrith, N.S.W. on 26 May 1964 and baptized there on 14 June. He attended The King's School, Parramatta, and then studied Hotel Management in Sydney and London. He married Alison Patricia Woods of Christchurch, Hants. on 1 April 1989 at Christchurch Priory. She was an air hostess with British Airways, and subsequently trained their flight attendants. They returned for a time to Australia, where David was Conference Manager at Mount Broughton resort, near Sutton Forest, Moss Vale, N.S.W. In 1991 they moved to England, and in mid-1992 David took up the post of manager of the Old Castle Inn at Salisbury for the Trust House Forte group. In 1999, they set up their own licenced restaurant, Afon, by the river Avon in Salisbury, specializing in Australian food. They lived at 3 Woodland Way, Laverstock. They subsequently returned to Australia. David and Alison Corin live near Newcastle, N.S.W.

5.3.2.3 GREGORY JAMES CORIN (b.1967), born on 10 October 1967 at Penrith, N.S.W. He was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and Duntroon Military College, Canberra. He joined the Australian Federal Police in 1987 and works in their VIP protection unit. He has worked for the AFP in Canberra, Sydney and Perth, and has also worked for them as part of the UN teams in Cyprus and East Timor. On 1 September 1991 he married Deirdre Mary Chatfield, a sonographer, daughter of Dr Kerr and Mrs Barbara Chatfield of Penrith, N.S.W., at Parramatta. Gregory and Deirdre live near Canberra. They have two children:

5.3.2.3.1 AMELIA GRACE CORIN (b. 1998), born on 4 March 1998 at Canberra, A.C.T.

5.3.2.3.2 WILLIAM JAMES CORIN (b. 2000), born on 18 November 2000 at Perth, W.A.

5.4 JENNIE LOUISE CORIN (1905-1988), born at Launceston, Tasmania, on 19 July 1905. She remained unmarried, and lived in Sydney, where she conducted her own copying and typing business at Kelvin House, Castlereagh Street, for many years. In 1968 she was living at 17 Sarre Road, London N.W.2., and was later at 60 Becmead Avenue, London S.W.16. She died at Streatham on 13 July 1988. Geoffrey Corin, Sarah Corin Mills and David Corin represented the Corin family at her funeral.

5.5 JOHN SYDNEY CORIN (1907-1930), born on 19 May 1907 at Launceston, Tasmania. He was educated at Turramurra College, Sydney, and served his apprenticeship in engineering with the English Electrical Company, Sydney. He was a engineer with the Clyde Engineering Works, Parramatta, and later with A.E. Goodwin, Electrical Engineer, Sydney. He died, unmarried, in a motor car accident at Tamworth, N.S.W., on 18 April 1930. He was 22.

5.6 ELINOR GRACE CORIN (1913-1977), born on 30 September 1913 at Chislehurst, Kent. For most of her life she lived at Chatswood, Sydney, working as an office systematist and accountant. She was employed by Remington Rand Representatives, Sydney, for many years. She was Financial Secretary to the Church Missionary Society, Sydney, from August 1961 to 1966, and later Bursar at Ravenswood Methodist Ladies' College, Gordon, Sydney. She travelled to England in May 1970 and married Thomas Vernon Gould of Ringwood, Hampshire, on 3 June 1970. (He had children by his first wife.) Elinor Gould lived on in England until 1972, when she returned to live in Sydney. She died at Chatswood, Sydney, on 11 May 1977. Thomas Gould died at Ringwood, Hants., on 18 May 1979.

6 MARY ANNIE CORIN (1869-1870) was born at 2 The Villas, Forest Hill, on 13 March 1869, and died before her first birthday, on 23 February 1870.

7 ARTHUR CORIN (1871-1927) was born at 2 The Villas, Forest Hill, Sydenham on 11 June 1871. He was educated at University College School in London from 1885, and matriculated at the University of London in 1888. He was a surveyor, living firstly in South Africa, where he was employed as a surveyor by the government. He married Amelia Margaret Ryan there in 1895. He and his family moved to Sydney, N.S.W., in 1908 or 1909, living at South Kensington, Sydney. He was appointed Shire Engineer for the Barraba Council Water Board, living at Barraba, N.S.W. He served with the Pioneer (Engineering) Battalion during the First World War, and was gassed while on active service. He died at Katoomba, N.S.W., on 10 July 1927, and his widow returned to South Africa, where she remarried.

8 WALTER CHARLES CORIN (1873-1934), was born at 2 The Villas, Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, on 25 March 1873. He became a photographer, and travelled to Canada and Australia, before taking a job in Ireland. There he married Clara Andrews, the daughter of Thomas Andrews and Annie Sidwell Andrews, née Watts. Her father was Governor of Cork Male Prison, and it was while Walter was working for Guy's of Cork that they married on 2 September 1902 at St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork. Walter and Clara moved to Sale in Cheshire, but W.C. wished to set up his own studio. They moved to Surrey, where Walter established photographic studios at Cranleigh and Haslemere. The family lived at The Hut, The Common, Cranleigh. Walter died in a London nursing home on 12 November 1934. His widow later moved to join her daughter in Salisbury, staying at the Little Manor nursing home, and dying at 3 Cambridge Road, Salisbury, on 4 May 1955.

8.1 ENID AILEEN CORIN (1906-1999), born on 14 February 1906 at 30 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire. She spent her childhood in Cranleigh. She carried on her father's photographic studio at Cranleigh after his death. On 29 August 1941 she changed her name by deed poll to Enid Aileen Corin Davie - the notice was published in the London Gazette for 1 September. Enid and her son Hector moved to 80 Heath Road, Salisbury, in September 1946, and again in August 1947 to 3 Cambridge Road, Salisbury. Here she met William Alan Dodsworth, a service representative for the Southern Electricity Board. He had been born in Hereford on 2 June 1908. They were married at Kensington Registry Office on 5 September 1949. The witnesses were Enid's friends, Jacqueline and Michael Manley of 23 Clanricarde Gardens - the latter later became Prime Minister of Jamaica. (Jacqueline Manley was born Kamellard, and had worked in the studio in Cranleigh before the war.) William Dodsworth died on 7 September 1973. Enid gave up professional photography after her marriage, and worked part time as a shop assistant from the mid-1950's. She retired from working at Blooms at the end of January 1976. Enid later moved to 6 Homesarum House, Wilton Road, Salisbury. A little after her 90th birthday, she moved again, to Maristow Nursing Home, where she gradually weakened. She enjoyed the company of David and Alison Corin, who were living in Laverstock at this time, and was also visited by John and Marianne Hofer, Lois Pulford and Geoffrey and Mary Corin at intervals. She died on 9 September 1999, aged 93.

Enid and George Davie had a son:

8.1.1 HECTOR CORYN MARK DAVIE (b.1941), born in Guildford on 20 November 1941. He attended Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, from 1952 to 1960, and St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1960 to 1964, graduating in Jurisprudence. He taught abroad in Zambia and Ethiopia, where he met Joanna Marion Kate Pettman, the daughter of Ernest Edward Arthur Pettman and Doris Frances Marion Pettman, née Baker. Joanna had been born at Cuffley, Hertfordshire, on 4 April 1940. They married at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 31 July 1968. They returned to Ethiopia, and subsequently worked at Walsall, Staffordshire, and at the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia (from 1971 to 1977). They left Arabia and moved to High Sprintgill, Fell End, Ravenstonedale, Westmorland, where for a time they operated a café and craft shop at Dent, Yorkshire. Hector returned to teaching, working at the University of Buckingham between 1980 and 1982. After a further short period in Arabia, he joined Ascom Hasler Ltd., a Swiss telecommunications company, in 1986. He was training manager in the telex software department, subsequently specializing in network management systems. He took early retirement in January 2003. He and his family live at Plattenweg 34, 3098 Schliern, Switzerland. He is the author of these notes.

Hector and Joanna Davie have three children:

8.1.1.1 ANTONIA JUSTINE MARION DAVIE (b.1971), born at Birmingham on 24 June 1971. She was educated in England and Switzerland, and after completing a course in bilingual secretarial studies worked for Hewlett Packard and Ascom Autelca near Berne in Switzerland in 1993.

She married Owen Robert Frost at Laidley, Queensland on 25 June 1999. He was born on 30 December 1974, the son of Thomas John Frost (born in Victoria on 11 December 1934) and Maureen Olive Frost (née Bugden) (born in Hayes, Middlesex on 2 May 1937).

8.1.1.2 TAMSIN MIRANDA DAVIE (b.1973), born at Kendal, Westmorland, on 7 July 1973. She moved to Switzerland with her parents in November 1986.

On 4 August 2000, she married Erik Lars Jenk in Berne. They have two children:

8.1.1.2.1 PATRICK CORYN JENK (b.2002), born in Berne on 3 July 2002.

8.1.1.2.2 SARAH KATE JENK (b.2005), born in Berne on 22 June 2005.

8.1.1.3 SEBASTIAN JONATHAN DAVIE (b.1976), born at Kendal on 15 July 1976.

9 GRACE CORIN (1874-1964), born at 'Shelford', Devonshire Road, Forest Hill on 4 October 1874, travelled to Tasmania in 1897 to take care of Pauline Hope Corin after the death of her mother, Kathleen (née Sleeman). After three years in Australia, she returned to England, and married Arthur Gilbert Genders at Sidcup, Kent, on 1 May 1907. He was the son of Joseph C. Genders of Launceston, Tasmania, and was a partner in the firm of W. & G. Genders Pty. Ltd. of Cameron Street, Launceston and Liverpool Street, Hobart. Grace was his second wife. The couple had no children, and lived at 'Norwood', Penquite Road, St Leonard's, Launceston.

Gilbert Genders' first wife had been Eva Maria Sleeman, sister of Kathleen Susan Corin, née Sleeman, and they had had a son and three daughters. Eva Genders had died at their house in St Leonard's on 22 March 1906.

Gilbert Genders died at 'Norwood', St Leonard's, Launceston, on 24 July 1932. Grace Genders lived at 29 Toorak Avenue, Lenah Valley, Hobart, Tasmania after the death of her husband, and later at 'Airlie', 7 Auburn Grove, Auburn, Melbourne, Victoria, where she died on 23 June 1964. She is buried at Melbourne.

10 FREDERICK ERNEST CORIN (1876-1911) was born at 'Shelford', Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, Sydenham, Kent, on 28 May 1876. He was educated in London, although he may have been at Ebor School in 1891. He became a dental surgeon, receiving the L.D.S. in 1897. In 1902 he was practising at 152 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He moved to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and married Annie Maud (or Maud Isabel) Daley, of Galway. He died at Guy's Hospital, London, on 18 February 1911. The children stayed for a while with the Spinks.

11 ROSALIE EMMA CORIN (1878-1924) was born at 'Shelford', Devonshire Road, Forest Hill on 19 April 1878. She remained unmarried. She taught English in a Belgian school, and went to Sydney on the outbreak of war in 1914. After the War she returned to England, but died of tuberculosis at Dudley House, Sandown, Isle of Wight, a Roman Catholic convent, on 23 January 1924. She left £1182/3/7.

He saw active service in France and Belgium during the First World War, and held the rank of Major in the Army. He was mentioned in dispatches, and was awarded the O.B.E. He also became a Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Couronne Belge.

He married firstly Annie Emma Apthorpe, née Arthurs-Brown, at Wickham Market in Suffolk shortly after qualifying, at the end of 1901. She was a 31-year-old widow from Bromley with a three-year-old daughter, Annie Beryl Apthorpe. They had one son. Annie and Herbert divorced, and Herbert John Corin remarried. (Annie died in the 1940s.) His second wife was Winifred Emily Williams, born on 31 October 1892, the daughter of Bransby Williams (1870-1961 - the famous Dickens monologuist and character actor of the British stage). They were married at Covent Garden on 11 February 1932 (quære Winifred Cockshutt). Major H.J. and Winnie Corin were at 1 Bolnore, Hayward's Heath, Sussex in 1962, and finally at 25 Regnum Court, North Walls, Chichester, Sussex, where Herbert died on 28 August 1965. Winnie Corin died at Chichester in September 1984.