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 became a draper's assistant.
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 became a draper's assistant.
A youthful incident at Penzance's St Peter's Day fireworks is recorded in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 10 July 1857. (There is a more detailed report in the Cornish Telegraph.)
...a summons was obtained by Mr William Norton, of Penzance, ironmonger, against Messrs. George Hemmings, of the "Three Tuns," Edwin Paul Corin, draper, and James Runnals, merchant, for the destruction of his clothes by fireworks, on Monday, the 29th, on which occasion St. Peter's day was celebrated. The case was heard before Messrs. Borlase and Batten, at the Town-hall, on Monday last, in a crowded court. Mr. Pascoe appeared for the complainant, and Messrs. Millett and Davies for the defendants, who were offered a compromise on their paying for the damaged clothes and apologizing. Mr. Norton visited the green market with his two little girls soon after nine in the evening and alleged that on his return thence to his home he was unfairly "rocketted" by Mr. Corin, whom he knew by person but not by name — that one returning to the green market to give Mr. Corin into custody he was set on by numbers of young men, headed by Mr. Hemmings, who assailed him with rockets — and that on visiting the same locality a third time he was again assailed in a similar way, Mr. Runnals being a conspicuous leader of the attack, which resulted in the destruction of his clothes, even his shirt being burnt. For the defence it was urged that Mr. Norton misunderstood the whole affair; Mr. Corin could most solemnly deny raising his rocket to the complainant's face; Mr. Hemmins, so far from being an aggressor, deterred the assailants in the second attack; and Mr. Runnals in the last affair only treated complainant, according to custom, with a torrent of sparks about the legs. As Mr. Norton was burnt in the side and neck it was deemed he had not been fairly used, and the defendants were ordered to pay £3 15s. the value of the clothes. The whole of the legal gentlemen engaged gave up their fees, and the public presented the Firework Committee with £8 to meet the expenses incurred by the defendants.
He left Penzance before 1861 and moved to London. In the 1861 census, he is recorded as Edward P Corin, presumably a transcription error by the enumerator, working as a warehouseman, at 4,5 and 6 Love Lane, between 66 and 64 Aldermanbury. He is described as an assistant, and it is reasonable to assume that the 37 men and 5 women listed were at work at midnight on 7 April, when the census was taken. The warehouse proprietor was John Baggalay, a cloth merchant.
However, by the next year he was working as a commercial traveller. His employer was Hirsch Leopold Oppenheimer.
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He had been born in Hamburg, and was only 26 in 1861.
Hirsch and his brother Elie, together with Louis Rautmann and Julius Davidson had set up the firm of Rautmann, Davidsohn and Oppenheimer, merchants of 16-18 Gutter Lane, and of 11 rue Buffault in Paris.
However, on 24 June 1862, the partnership was dissolved, and Hirsch traded in his sole name.
Edwin 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 were Eliza's parents, Philip and Mary, a Clementina Frame, and a James Perrow. Clementina seems to have been a schoolteacher, baptized in 1830 at Stockwell's Independent New Chapel and living with her two elder schoolteaching sisters at Veranda House in Richmond. (There was also a Clementina Frames at 55 Edware Road, a draper's assistant.) The other witness could possibly 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. However, there was a bricklayer, James Perrow, of 8 High Street, Chobham, who might also be the person.)
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 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 (1846-1942)('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 Edward Corin Rubie (1877-1952) and another Leslie Paul Rubie (1882-).
The family were Plymouth Brethren, and the Rubies and Spinks were of the same persuasion. Edwin published several tracts on religious topics. 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 March 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, 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.
A family group photograph, probably dating from autumn 1881
Edwin (18), Jennie (15), Paul (17), Harry (16), William (14)
Arthur (10), Edwin (42), Herbert (Jack) (1), Fred (5), Rosalie (3), Eliza (44), Grace (6), Walter (8)
In 1887, Edwin collapsed while preaching on the text "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil 1:21) 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 and was buried on 10 May.
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'. The family was there in 1891. By 1901 however, Eliza, together with Harry, Grace, Rosalie and Herbert, had moved to 29 Holwood Road, near Bromley High Street. (182 Devonshire Road became a children's home for babies under two.) 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, where her sister-in-law, the 'Little Aunt' had been staying ten years previously. 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.
Eva Spink, Annie Corin, Walter C Corin, Jennie Spink, Nellie Corin, Ronald Corin
Irene Spink, Maud Corin, Edwin Corin, Eliza Corin, Will Corin, Clara Corin, Charles Spink
Gordon (Chip) Corin, John Corin, Enid Corin, Paul Corin, Jennie Corin, Jack Corin, Kathleen Spink
The twelve children of Edwin Paul and Eliza Corin were:
1 EDWIN PHILIP CORIN (1863-1940), born on 31 March 1863 at St John's Road, Battersea, London SW. He took over the running of his father's business after his death in 1887, with R.J. Paul as a partner. Two years later, however, he relinquished control of the button firm, and married Annie Saunders Spink.
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. At the time of National Registration in September 1939 he was staying with his widowed brother-in-law, Charles Spink, at "Southcombe", Vicarage Road , Sidmouth, Devon. He died in April 1940 at Chislehurst, Kent.
Edwin Philip and Annie Corin had two sons:
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. In 1939 he was at 9 Orchard Road, Bromley, Kent. Later the family 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 (1926-2010), 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 lived at Cheyneys, Vicarage Road, Burwash Common, Etchingham, Sussex. He died on 1 October 2010.
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.
Marjorie had been born at "Firlands", Reigate Road, Reigate, Surrey on 30 April 1897, the only daughter of Milton and Ellen Leicester Horner (née Butler), later of "Kingsley", Denton Road, Meads, Eastbourne, Sussex. (Milton Horner was the son of William Blackwell Horner, the publisher of railroad guides, of Horner's Penny Stories and of several works by Grace Pettman, who wrote 158 stories for Horner's series.) He had been born in 1857 in Chicago, Illinois, and had lived in Chicago, and at 12 Holborn Viaduct, London, inter alia. He was a retired publisher, who died on 15 June 1934 at Eastbourne (Probate £66,555). Marjorie V. Corin had a brother, Philip William Milton Horner, an accountant, born at Reigate, Surrey, on 17 February 1895, who died in March 1980 at Esher, Surrey. (He married Edna Ellwood Parker, 1904-1999)
Farley remarried in the third quarter of 1960 to Margery Curtis, and they went to live at "Tol Brogh", 4 Landeryon Gardens, Penzance. He died at Penzance on 17 August 1973 and was cremated at Truro six days later. His estate was valued at £28,889, Margorie died on 12 February 2006.
Farley G.P. and Marjorie V. Corin had one son:
1.2.1 GEOFFREY PAUL CORIN (1930-2012), born on 21 May 1930 at Lee, Blackheath, Kent. He was baptized at Churt, Surrey. Here 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 did military service with the Royal Signals, "listening in to the Russian secret service." He later worked in the city taking over a children's wear shop importing the first children's tights into the UK ("at a guinea a pair!")
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. Geoff learned to fly, often flying to the Channel Islands just for lunch.
Cooking was in his blood from a very early age. He trained in Gstaad in Switzerland, cooking for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Charlie Chaplin and David Niven among many. He enjoyed associating with chefs such as the Roux brothers, Mossiman and the chef at the Ritz. He demonstrated at Earls Court and Olympia, and re-organized the restaurant at Madame Tussauds. In 1965 he and Mary acquired Church Farm, Selmeston, Polegate, Sussex, and opened 'Corins', a licensed restaurant. Geoff later retired, and they moved to 47 Meads St., Eastbourne. At the end of 2011, he fell ill with cancer, and died in a local nursing home on 10 June 2012. He was buried on 28 June 2012 at Arlington, Sussex. 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, Buckinghamshire. 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, but separated after some seven years. Philip continued in the catering business, and then spend eighteen months in Talinn, Estonia, where he was involved in real estate. He returned to England and has a catering business in Southampton.
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 São Paolo Bank, Rio de Janeiro (and later, in 1905, at the London and River Plate Bank). On 20 January 1896 Harry married Louisa Hilda Wagner.
Their only child, a baby son, died on 17 January 1899 at Para, and Hilda Corin died at Para ten days later.
Harry 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.
He is buried in the Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro.
The inscription in Portuguese quotes John 3:24.
4 JENNIE CORIN (1866-1937) was born at 2 The Villas, Forest Hill on 9 April 1866. In 1889 she married Charles Frederick Spink (of Spink and Sons, St. James') at Lewisham: this was only a little time before her brother Edwin married Charles' sister Annie. Charles was some eight years older than Jennie, having been born on 1 April 1858 in London, 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 1911 and 1916). In the 1911 census, Charles described himself as an antiquarian and fine art dealer. 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, to Sybil Naomi Pigott Close, at Honiton in the last quarter of 1939. Charies and Sybil lived at "Fermain", Furzefield Road, Reigate, Surrey, untl Sybil's death on 3 August 1953, aged 80 years. Charles Frederick Spink died at 55 Downview Road, Worthing, Sussex, on 19 June 1945, leaving his estate to his two survving daughters.
Charles and Jennie Spink had three daughters:
4.1 IRENE ELIZABETH CORIN SPINK (1891-1934), born on 9 May 1891 at Chislehurst, Kent. She married a cousin, Hans Frederick Hofer (1887-1976), 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 Sarah (1860-1932), née Spink, was 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, on 2o November 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 Baptist Tabernacle, Mile End, 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 (Elizabeth Sarah Hofer, née Spink) 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 Elsie Spiess was born on 31 January 1903 at Dortmund, Germany, and died on 17 October 1980. 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 Fairfield Avenue, Dorking, in 1952, and subsequently 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 FREDERICK HOFER (1925-2015), 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 Rosalie 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. John died at home on 14 October 2015 after a long illness. He is buried in Great Missenden Baptist Church Cemetery. Mariane moved to an Abbeyfield care home, James House, Sandy Lodge Way, Northwood. She died there on 29 June 2017, and was buried with John. 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 S H Haines, a graduate in political science, who later studied theology in America under the auspices of the Unification Church. William and Ruth Haines have four children:
4.1.2.1.1 ROBERT SAMUEL HAINES (b.1988), born on 24 November 1988 at St George's Hospital, Tooting, London. He married Cristabel Hill, born in Paddington, London, on 22 November 1988, in Oxford on 9 July 2011. They have two children:
4.1.2.1.1.1 CHARLOTTE HAINES (b.2016), born on 31 December 2016 in Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow.
4.1.2.1.1.2 KONRAD HAINES (b.2020), born on 11 September 2020 in Pinnner, Middlesex.
4.1.2.1.2 JONATHAN ANDREW HAINES (b.1990), born on 25 April 1990 at Watford, Herts. He is a life reinsurance actuary. He married Erena Hitomi Shaw, an internal auditor, born in Paddington, London, on 17 May 1990, at Kingston-upon-Thames Registry Office on 19 August 2017.
4.1.2.1.3 ALEXANDER WILLIAM HAINES (b.1994), born on 17 March 1994.
4.1.2.1.4 ELIZABETH LUISE HAINES (b.1999), born on 6 July 1999.
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., Kensworth, Beds., LU6 3RS. He married Petra Maria Hanselmann, at Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, on 27 August 1988. Petra is a qualified hotelier. The couple had three children. They lived in Maisburg-Marzell, Baden-Württemberg, from June 2002 to February 2014. David worked in Aesch, Switzerland, for Clair Global. They divorced in April 2018.
David returned to England, living in Croxley Green, Herts and working for Britannia Row in Twickenham, part of Clair Global. On 20 April 2019 he remarried, to Kathryn Sara Gratton, known as Sally, as Beaconsfield Register Office.
Sally was born on 29 September 1961 at Birkenhead, Cheshire. She is a nurse. She trained at St Bartholomew's and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
David and Petra Hofer's children were:
4.1.2.2.1 JAMES JOHN HOFER (b.1989), born on 24 September 1989 at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire. In 2021 he was working in audio and lighting for Clair Global in Aesch, Switzerland. He married Miriam Habicht, a hearing-aid specialist, at the Black Forest Academy, associated with the Black Forest Christian Fellowship, in Kandern, Baden-Württemberg on 17 August 2013.
Miriam was born in Freiburg-im-Breisgau on 22 July 1985.
They have a son:
4.1.2.2.1.1 SIMON DAVID HOFER (b.2014), born on 11 November 2014 in Freiburg-im-Breisgau.
4.1.2.2.2 STEFAN DAVID HOFER (b.1990), born on 21 September 1990 at Luton, Bedfordshire. He is a mechanical engineer.
4.1.2.2.3 TIMOTHY PAUL HAFNER HOFER (b.1995), born at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire, on 12 September 1995. He is an electro-car mechanic.
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 E Childs, workinfg in retail management and merchandising, known as George, at Ware at Bramfield, Herts, on 28 June 1997. They lived in Ware, and in 2021 at Clay Chimneys House, Albury Road, Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire. SG9 0LP and have two children:
4.1.2.3.1 CHARLES JOHN K HOFER (b.2001), born on 7 June 2001 at the New QE2 Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
4.1.2.3.2 JOSEPHINE HELENA HOFER (b.2003), born on 18 February 2003 at the New QE2 Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
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 was influenced by the Revd Oswald Chambers (1874-1917), author of My Utmost for his Highest and a Church of England evangelist in America, Japan, Egypt and the UK. She wrote extensively on Christian doctrine, composed sermons and notes on the Bible. She also kept a diary from 1916 to 1921 and from 1921 to 1977. She went to Egypt as a missionary before her marriage. Her writings and diaries, under the name of Eva Spink and Eva Spink Pulford, are now in the Wheaton College Archives at the University of Illinois.
Eva 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 (1922-2010), born on 2 August 1922 at St Ives. She was a craftswoman, specializing in weaving and spinning, who lived with her parents at their various rectories and finally at the School House, Bridstow. She remained unmarried. During the Second World War she served in the Women's Land Army in Cornwall. In 1992, her brother Paul moved into the School House, and Lois moved to a town house at 7 New Street, Ross-on-Wye and later to 3 New Street. She died of cancer on 12 October 2010 at The Chestnuts Care Home, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and was buried near her parents and brother at Upton Bishop, Herefordshire, on 8 November 2010. (Christopher Pulford's eulogy at her memorial service can be read here)
4.2.2 STEPHEN IAN PULFORD (1925-), born on 21 September 1925 at Carbis Bay, St Ives. He married Hilare M Field at Whittington, near Cheltenham, Gloucs. in June 1956.
Ian 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. He retired in 1995. He was later active at Highbury Congregational Church, Cheltenham. Ian and Hilare 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.
In 2001 he was working for React, based in Kew, a charity working with terminally-ill children.
His third marriage was to Lara Tambacopolou, born in Athens in 1967. They moved from London to Athens in late 2003, to take up a project development job assisting in the restoration of a large neoclassical building in Plaka at the foot of the Acropolis. This assignment fell through, and Christopher revived his carpentry skills, building furniture for private customers and fitting out shops selling children's clothes. He also did some private tutoring, and joined a rock and blues band. In 2010 he became Head of the Middle School at the International School of Athens, and in 2012, he moved to Gstaad in Switzerland and became headmaster of the International School there. In 2014 he moved to Vancouver, BC.
Christopher and Jill had 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.
Christopher and Lara have two children:
4.2.2.2.4 NICHOLAS GABRIEL PULFORD (b.2002), born on 8 October 2002.
4.2.2.2.5 SASHA (ALEXANDER) PULFORD.
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 they 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. Ruth survived him, and died on 19 January 2016. Paul and Ruth Pulford had two children:
4.2.3.1 JEREMY P E C PULFORD (b.1956), born on 29 March 1956 at Gloucester. He married Rosalind M Woodrow in 1978 at Ross-on-Wye. He remarried, to Janet B Harris at Worcester in 1986.
4.2.3.2 CLAIRE S R PULFORD (b.1959), born on 31 October 1959 at Gloucester. She married Michael D Gould in 2003 in Ross-on-Wye.
4.3 KATHLEEN ALICE SPINK (1894-1976), born on 7 September 1894 in Chislehurst, 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. In 1939, Kathleen was living with her sister at the vicarage in Uckfield. (Elizabeth Gomm was also staying there - Enid Corin was acquainted with her, but it is uncertain where she fits in!) 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, leaving an estate of £31674.
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, NSW, 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 complexion, 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, NSW, 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.
William and his first wife, Kathleen, had a daughter:
5.1 PAULINE HOPE CORIN (1896-1969), born at Launceston, Tasmania, on 12 November 1896. She was educated in England at Bexhill, and at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, NSW She married Reginald Charles Best, son of Charles Lancaster Best and Laura Adelaide Best, née Linzee Giles, both of London and Tasmania, at Chatswood, Sydney, on 10 May 1935, and they lived at 27 Toorak Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania. Reginald Best had been born at Scottsdale, Tasmania, on 26 March 1898, and was employed by the Hydro-Electric Commission, Hobart. He was also an accountant and businessman. He died at Hobart on 9 November 1953, and Pauline H. Best died there on 12 April 1969.
Reginald and Pauline Best had one son:
5.1.1 EVAN CHARLES CORIN FAIRFAX BEST (b.1937), born at Hobart, Tasmania on 30 January 1937. He attended the University of Tasmania, graduating with B.A. (Hons) and Dip.Ed, and the University of Sydney with an M.A. He lived at 27 Toorak Avenue, and then at 18 Auvergne Avenue, Lenah Valley, Hobart, Tasmania, until 1971, when he moved to a teaching post in Sydney, residing at 22 Illiliwa Street, Cremorne, NSW until January 1993, and then at 71 Young Street. He retired in 1997. An enthusiastic family historian, he provided the material for much of the present notes, and served on the Council of the Society of Australian Genealogists, becoming its President. He also edits the Society's journal Descent, and holds the Society's Diploma of Family History Studies, and is a Fellow of the Society (Dip.F.H.S., F.S.A.G.). See Who's Who in Australia (1988), p.114. On 26 January 2010 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to genealogy and particularly to the Society of Australian Genealogists.
William and his second wife, Ellen, had five children:
5.2 KATHLEEN RUTH CORIN (1901-1983), born on 23 August 1901 at Launceston, Tasmania. She was educated at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, NSW, 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, NSW She married Alfred Douglas Roy Shedden, son of Alderman Hugh McLachlan Shedden and Edith Shedden, née Newton, at Newcastle, NSW, on 28 March 1942. He had been born on 1 April 1893 at Newcastle, NSW 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, NSW 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, NSW, 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, NSW He married Muriel Jessie Miller, who had been born on 24 August 1901 at Marrickville, NSW 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, NSW 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, NSW, 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, NSW at Ryde, Sydney, on 20 January 1962. Isobel had been born at Armidale, NSW, 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, NSW
Isobel died on 20 December 2003, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. Richard moved to Tura Beach, in the south of New South Wales.
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 lived at Annandale, Sydney, and at 2 Gregory Terrace, Lapstone, NSW.
They have a son:
5.3.2.1.1 JACK FREDERICK CORIN HIRST (b.2004), born at Randwick, NSW on 9 June 2004.
5.3.2.2 DAVID PAUL CORIN (b.1964), born at Penrith, NSW 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, born at Aldershot, Hampshire, on 27 April 1993, 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, NSW 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 and lived at Eleebana, near Newcastle, NSW.
The marriage ended, and David Corin remarried, to Emma Jane Capaldi on 29 November 2018 at Hamilton Island, Queensland.
5.3.2.3 GREGORY JAMES CORIN (b.1967), born on 10 October 1967 at Penrith, NSW 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, NSW, at Parramatta. Gregory and Deirdre (Dee) 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, NSW, 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 volunteered for service in the Boer War, and served as an acting lieutenant.
He and his family moved to Sydney, NSW, in 1908 or 1909, living at South Kensington, Sydney.
He was appointed Shire Engineer for the Barraba Council Water Board, living at Barraba, NSW, and was described as of the Survey Branch, Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, when he died.
He served with the Third Pioneer (Engineering) Battalion during the First World War On enlistment in September 1915, and on applying for a commission as Second Lieutenant in January 1916, he gave his address as "Shelford", Brook St, Randwick. His height was recorded as 6' 1¼", his weight as 193 lbs, his chest measurement as 38-41 and his eyesight as 6/6. He embarked for England on 6 June 1916, arriving in Plymouth on 26 September. After training at Tidworth Camp, he arrived in Boulogne on 15 June 1917. He served at Rouelles, and was gassed in November 1917 while on active service. In September 1918 he was declared permanently unfit for service and returned to Australia, where his appointment was terminated at the end of the year on grounds of "premature senility".
At the beginning of 1918 his wife had moved to "Shelford", Wellington St, Bondi, NSW. Arthur inherited his sister Rosalie's cottage, "Boambee" at Katoomba, NSW on her death in 1924. He died at Katoomba on 10 July 1927, and was buried in the Church of England cemetery there two days later. His widow remained at Randwick for a time, and then returned to South Africa, where she remarried, to a Mr Newell.
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In the Supreme Court of New South Wales, probate was granted to her daughters, Rosalie and Sheila, on 11 October 1934 on the will of Amelia Margaret Newell, married woman, formerly of King William's Town, [Eastern] Cape Province, South Africa, but late of Wynberg, Cape Town.
(Letters of Administration had been granted to them in the Supreme Court of South Africa, on 12 September 1934).
Arthur and Amelia Corin had two daughters:
7.1 ROSALIE MARION R. CORIN (1899-1950), born on 9 June 1899 in South Africa.
She married firstly Doré Greve le Brun at the Presbyterian Church, Sydney, on 22 April 1922.
Doré was the son of John (or Johan) Greve le Brun and his wife Inez of Sydney, NSW.
He was a chemist.
When Rosalie's father died in 1927, she was living at 1 Albemarle Avenue, Rose Bay, Sydney, together with Doré and his sister, Aadel le Brun, a music teacher.
Rosalie was separated from Doré after twelve years of childless marriage, and they were divorced in Sydney.
In March 1932, Rosalie began proceedings against him on grounds of desertion, and a decree nisi was granted on 30 July.
The decree absolute was on 18 March 1933.
Doré le Brun remarried in 1935 at Woolahra, and died at Chatswood, Sydney in 1943.
Rosalie returned to South Africa around 1935.
There she married Douglas Whitley, and they lived at The Island, Somerset West, Cape Province, from 1947 to 1949.
Rosalie Whitley died in South Africa in 1950.
Douglas and Rosalie Whitley had one daughter:
7.1.1 MARY ROSE ELIZABETH JOY WHITLEY (1937-), born at Newlands, Cape Town, on 28 May 1937.
7.2 SHEILA MAUDE CORIN (1900-), born on 26 August 1900 in South Africa. She married first William Joseph Clancy, a company secretary of Sydney, NSW at Randwick, Sydney in 1925.
The couple were living at South Kensington, Sydney, when Sheila's father died in 1927. They had a son, but William died at the age of 38 and was buried at the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, overlooking Botany Bay, on 4 March 1938, and Sheila returned to South Africa. She later married William Stephan Pennel. The marriage broke down in 1965. William Pennel died in 1971. The Pennels lived in Cape Town, and later in Johannesburg. Sheila Pennel was at Avondrust Home, Rouwkoop Road, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town in 1968.
William and Sheila Clancy's son was:
7.2.1 WILLIAM CLANCY (1927-), born on 22 August 1927 in Sydney, NSW He married Mavis ..., and lives in Cape Town. William and Mavis Clancy have one daughter.
7.2.1.1 LYNETTE CLANCY (b.19??).
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 bought a purpose-built studio in Cranleigh, and later also established a photographic studio at Haslemere. He enlisted during the First World War as an Aircraft Mechanic. The family lived at The Hut, The Common, Cranleigh. Walter died in a London nursing home on 12 November 1934. The Surrey Advertiser of Wednesday 14 November carried his obituary. 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.
Walter and Clara Corin had one daughter:
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 (formerly the Wessex Electricity Company).
Alan and Enid 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.) Alan Dodsworth died on 7 September 1973. Enid gave up professional photography after her marriage, and worked in Salisbury part time as a shop assistant from the mid-1950's, initially at Wilton's Toy Shop and later at Blooms in the Canal. 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, at the end of September 1986. He was training manager in the telex software department, subsequently specializing in network management systems. He took early retirement in January 2003. He is the author of these notes. He and his family lived at Plattenweg 34, 3098 Schliern, Switzerland, moving early in 2007 to Jennershausweg 8, Köniz to be closer to the grandchildren. Joanna died there of cancer on 3 July 2010. Hector moved again, in August 2013, to Heckenweg 51, Berne, and later to Chutzenstrasse 54, where he lived with Patricia Jane Carrick, née Drew.
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.
On 28 October 2016 he married Anna-Katharina Arnold in Köniz. They have two sons:
8.1.1.3.1 MATTHEW SEAN DAVIE (b.2016), born in Berne on 9 November 2016.
8.1.1.3.2 OLIVER EVAN DAVIE (b.2019), born in Berne on 23 January 2019.
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. (He was also interested in photography, joining the Royal Photographic Society in 1898.) In 1902 he was practising at 152 High Street, Bromley, Kent. At the beginning of 1903 he travelled to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and married Annie Maud Daley (or Maud Isabel Whyte) Daley, "of Galway".
Frederick and Maud Corin had two sons:
10.1 JOHN MADAN CORIN (1907-1961), born at Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, on 9 May 1907. He was Secretary of the Imperial College of Science and Technology at West Kensington, London. He married Lorna Scott-Snell in 1934. He lived at Brook Farm, Boxted, Colchester, Essex, where he died on 25 September 1961. His widow survived him.
John and Lorna Corin had two children:
10.1.1 GILLIAN PHILIPPA CORIN (b.1935), born on 26 September 1935. She became a secretary at Peter Scott's Severn Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. After a two-year courtship, she married Hugh J Boyd in the Westminster registration district in the third quarter of 1955.
Hugh was the younger son of Henry John Boyd (1892-1972), a Bristol pharmacist, and Alice, née Clark. He was born on 12 May 1925, and was a world-level research ornithologist who at the time was working with the Severn Wildfowl Trust. From 1967 he worked for the eastern division of the Canadian Wildlife Service, studying geese in their Arctic breeding grounds. He was later appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2012 he published his last scientific article and in 2015 he celebrated his 90th birthday in Iceland observing Brent geese. He died on 3 July 2016 at Ottawa, Canada. There is an obituary here.
10.1.1.1 ALASTAIR M BOYD (b.1957), and
10.1.1.2 DUNCAN A BOYD (b.1957), twins born in Gloucester in the third quarter of 1957.
10.1.1.3 GUY M BOYD (b.1959), born in Gloucester in the third quarter of 1959.
10.1.2 ANTONY HUGO CORIN (b.1945), born on 29 June 1945. He married Emily Jane Frances Buttle in the Thrapston registration district in third quarter of 1968. They had a daughter.
10.1.2.1 ANNA VICTORIA CORIN (b.1977), born in London at the beginning of 1977.
10.2 ALAN PAUL CORIN (1908-1982), born on 30 October 1908. He won a Gainer Scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford, and took a third in Greats in 1931, proceeding to an M.A. in 1935. After studying at Westcott House, Cambridge, he was ordained to the Anglican ministry in December 1932 at Wakefield Cathedral, serving a curay in King Cross in Calderdale, and subsequently ministering in Halifax, Huddersfield and Hackney Wick. Whilst serving as a chaplain during the Second World War, he was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was awarded an MBE in 1945. He became Vicar of Christ the Saviour Church, Ealing, in 1958, and was at The Clergy House there for 23 years. He retired to 27 Arcadia Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex in 1981, and died in the Chelmsford registration district on 14 October 1982.
11 ROSALIE EMMA CORIN (1878-1924) was born at 'Shelford', Devonshire Road, Forest Hill on 19 April 1878. The family has a copy book in her hand, written between November 1889 and March 1891, in which she had copied scriptures, favourite poems and quotations in elegant copperplate writing. She remained unmarried. On 16 September 1903 she left London for Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, South Africa on the SS Johannesburg, perhaps to visit her brothers Arthur and Frederick. She taught English in a Belgian school until the outbreak of war in 1914. She later travelled from London to Sydney via Hobart on the SS Athenic, leaving on 3 October 1916. She lived in Sydney, mostly with her brother William's family. She bought a cottage, "Boambee", at Katoomba, NSW. After the War she returned to England on the SS Demosthenes, arriving at London on 9 July 1920. She died of tuberculosis at Dudley House, Sandown, Isle of Wight, a Roman Catholic convent, on 22 January 1924. She left £1182/3/7. In her will, she asked to be buried according to the rites of the Roman Catholic church. (She was buried on 24 January at Christ Church, Sandown.) She gave £20 to her friend Miss Mary Theresa Robertson of 29 Leckford Road, Oxford, her house at Katoomba to her brother Arthur, and the residue of her estate to her brother Walter Charles Corin.
12 HERBERT JOHN CORIN (1880-1965), known as Jack, was born at 'Shelford', Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, Sydenham, Kent, on 21 March 1880. (The National Register of 1939 gives him a third forename, Ladrose.) He is possibly the 'J. Corin' at Ebor School, Bexhill in 1894-5. He was educated in London, and qualified at Guy's Hospital as a dental surgeon, becoming an L.D.S. in 1901. He practised at 9 Old Burlington Street and 22 Wimpole Street, London W.1. An article by him on Petroleum in the Treatment of Pyorrhoea Alveolaris appeared in The Lancet in 1917.
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 OBE. 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 32-year-old widow who had been born in Windsor in the first quarter of 1868.
She had married Samuel Ralph Apthorpe in Kensington in 1897.
Samuel died in Bromley at the beginning of 1900.
Annie had come to Wickham Market from Bromley with her daughter, Annie Beryl Apthorpe, born at the end of 1898.
Jack and Annie had one son, Herbert Paul Corin.
The couple divorced, and Herbert John Corin remarried.
(Annie died at Truro, Cornwall, at the end of 1941.)
Jack's second wife was Winifred Emily Cockshutt (aka Williams, aka Pharez, aka Henson - she had married Percy Cockshut in 1918), born on 31 October 1892, the daughter of Bransby William Pharez, known as Bransby Williams (1870-1961 - a famous Dickens monologuist and character actor of the British stage). They were married at Covent Garden on 11 February 1932 (quære Winifred Cockshutt).
Winnie Corin was a friend of the author, Naomi Jacob (1884-1964) for over fifty years, and one of her books, Honour Come Back is partly based on Winnie Corin's experiences and was dedicated to the Corins, with whom she spent time when at her summer cottage at Selsey, near the Corins at Itchenor (see the Chichester Observer of 4 September 1964: "Great Storyteller").
Winnie was also a close friend of the author Daphne du Maurier, and her 1951 novel, My Cousin Rachel (see Chapter 2: Rachel Coryn) is partly based on Corin family history told her by the Corins.
In 1939, Jack and Winnie were at "Corins", near West Wantley, Storrington, Sussex.
Major H.J. and Winnie Corin were at 1 Bolnore Road, Hayward's Heath, Sussex in 1962, and finally at 25 Regnum Court, North Walls, Chichester, Sussex, where Jack died on 28 August 1965. Winnie Corin died at Chichester in September 1984, aged 91.
Jack and Annie Corin had one son:
12.1 HERBERT PAUL CORIN (1902-1990), born on 12 November 1902 at Godstone. He was baptized at St James' Westminster on 25 January 1915 at the age of 12. He was admitted to Westminster School, London, on 27 September 1917, and left in December 1919. In the second quarter of 1936, he married Joan Selway Boocock, a 25-year-old from Halifax, in Hampstead.
Herbert Paul Corin bought St Keyne Mill, near Liskeard, Cornwall, and set up a business milling and selling farm produce, as well as a museum which houses a collection of unusual musical instruments, barrel organs and fairground carousels. He died on 14 July 1990 at Mill House, St Keyne, Liskeard, Cornwall, leaving an estate of £230,907 and Betty Frances Corin died there in February 2001.
Herbert and Elizabeth Corin had one son:
12.1.1 ERIC PAUL CORIN (b.1948), born on 18 November 1948, known as Pip. He married Diana J Symons in 1973, and remarried in 1981, to Valerie Ann Oliver (who had been born on 18 November 1955). He took over the exhibition, later named Magnificent Music Machines, at St Keyne. He and Valerie have two children:
12.1.1.1 KATIE CORIN (b.1983), born on 18 May 1983.
12.1.1.2 AMY KIRSTY CORIN (b.1985), born on 17 April 1985.
