Person:Joseph Cornish (4)

1851 CAN Census (York, York Twp East, pt 1, A-D) lists William Cornish, 29, b. US, rel = R.C., his apparent wife Hannah Cornish 31, b. US, rel = RC. Black folks compiled by Hilary Dawson, and published on AfriGeneas (www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/199803/msg00531.html). ** No idea if these Cornishes are related to Joseph. **

1855 Harriet Tubman Biography, Underground RR Escapes (www.harriettubmanbiography.com/id6.html : 2011), “Known Freedo1 CONC m Seekers Who Fled With Harriet Tubman 1850-1860
Harriet Ann Parker and William Henry Ross Jr. early 1855 
and probabl1 CONC y John Henry Ross Jr. – wife
and children of Henry Ross, aka William Henry Stewart. Harriet Ann Parker was a free woman1 CONC , daughter of Isaac and Julia Parker of Dorchester County. Harriet Ann and Henry Ross's children were born free.

Henr1 CONC y Hooper December 1855 
(and possibly Joseph Cornish)”

Late October 1857.  Aaron and Daffney Cornish and six of their eight children - Solomon, George Anthony, Joseph, Edward James, Perry Lake, and a two week old infant - Kit and Leah Anthony and their three children - Adam, Mary, and Murray - Joseph and free wife Alice and son Henry, Joe and Susan Viney, and their children, Joe Jr., Tom, Henry, Lloyd, Frank, Albert, and J.W., Joseph Hill's sister, Sarah Jane,  Solomon and George Light, Marshall Dutton, and Silas Long, for a total of 28 runaways (excluding free Alice and son Henry.)” ** Our Joseph Cornish? **

1857 Archives of Maryland (www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5496/008000/008026/html/008026.html :2011), Biographical series, MSA SC 5496-8026, “Joseph Cornish (b. ? - d. ?), Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857.” MSA SC 5496-8031, “Solomon Cornish was one of the twenty-eight slaves to escape from the Cambridge District of Dorchester County on October 24, 1857.  Solomon escaped with his parents, Aaron and Daffney, and his four siblings.” Other Cornishes who also fled from slavery the same year: Aaron, Daffney, Edward, George Anthony, Perry Lake and Solomon. ** If this our Joseph Cornish? ** - 8/11/11.

1857 The Cambridge Democrat, dtd. Nov 4, 1857 “$300 REWARD - Ran away from the subscriber, from the neighborhood of Town Point, on Saturday night, the 24th inst., my negro man, AARON CORNISH, about 35 years old. He is about five feet ten inches high, black, good-looking, rather pleasant countenance, and carries himself with a confident manner. He went off with his wife, DAFFNEY, a negro woman belonging to Reuben E. Phillips. I will give the above reward if taken out of the country, and $200 if taken in the county; in either case to be lodged in Cambridge Jail. October 25, 1857 [Rev] Levi D. Traverse”

1861 Per “Blacks in Canada 1861,” by Barry C. Noonan, CAN Census (Ontario, Brant, Brantford, pg. 71), Joseph Cornish 34, black, b. USA, blacksmith, Epis Meth. His wife, Mrs. Cornish 30, white, b. Ireland, Epis Meth. Their 2 children, David 14, black, b. UC, and Edward 7, black, b. UC.

Other Cornishes in Ontario in 1861: St. Catharines, Lincoln, pg 124, Joseph 48, black, b. USA, minister, Wesleyan Meth, and Ann Cornish 40, black, b. USA; St. Andrew’s Ward, City of Toronto, pg 431, John 70, black, b. USA, laborer, Roman Cath, and A. M. Cornish (f), 55, black, b. USA, Roman Catholic. No idea if they are related.

1861 CAN Census, Brant, Brantford, Queens Ward, ED 1, p. 71, ln 47) Joseph Cornish 34, colored, b. US, Epis Meth, blacksmith, they lived in a frame house, one story, one family, no real estate value listed. He owned two pigs, valued at $3, lived on one lot, his blacksmithing business valued at $300/year. His wife, Mrs. Cornish 30, white, b. Ireland, same religion. Their children, both colored, both b. UC: David 14, attended school; and Edward 7.

A Smith family on same page (ln. 17) headed by the widow Mrs. Smith 42, b. Ireland, Church of England, grocer, real estate valued at $1800, and her four children, all b. U.C.: Benj 20, single, salesman; Robt 17, single, law student; Ellen 15; and Margt 13. ** No idea if this Smith family is related to Eleanor **

1869 Buffalo City Directory (p. 260) no Joseph Cornish. The only Cornish mentioned is Elizabeth Cornish, dressmaker, 546 Main, h. same. Scanned image from distantcousin.com/Directories/NY/Buffalo/1869/, no information as to publisher of directory.

1870 US Census (NY, Erie, Buffalo, Ward 4, p 472, ln 12), Joseph Cornish, 43, mu, cook, b. MD, could read and write. His wife, Ellen Cornish, 42, mu, washing, b. England, both parents of foreign birth, could read and write. Living with them, Ellen’s apparent son, David Lee 25, mu, b. Canada, blacksmith, mother of foreign birth, could read and write. Also living in the same home with them but listed as a separate household: Washington Carter 53, mu, cook, b. VA; Eliza Carter 53, mu, washing, b. PA; William Bedford 28, mu, cook, b. PA; and Carter Charles 23, mu, waiter, b. NY.

1870 Buffalo City Directory (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/m/mdp/pt?view=image;size=100;id=mdp.39015074639744;page=root;seq=339;num=327), pub. by Warren, Johnson & Co., p. 327 only two Cornishes in the directory: Elizabeth Cornish, dressmaker, 546 Main; and John Cornish, baggageman, h. 472 Perry.

1871 CAN Census (ON, Lincoln, St. Catharines Town, Dist 21, Sub Dist B, Div 2, sh 24) Joseph Cornish 70, b. US, African origin, blacksmith, religion Other Methodist. From Archivia.net 12/8/03

Other black Cornishes in 1871 Canadian Census (from Archivia.net) William Cornish 52, b. US, Epis Meth, Lincoln, St. Catharines, laborer, Sub Dist B, Div 3, sh 49; Christina Cornish 14, b. ON, Roman Catholic, York East, Sub Dist York East A, Div 2, sh 8; John Cornish 78, b. US, white washer, Roman Catholic, Toronto East, St. James’ Ward B, Div 3, sh 33.

1873 Buffalo City Directory (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/m/mdp/pt?view=image;size=100;id=mdp.39015074639736;page=root;seq=307;num=289), p. 289, Joseph Cornish, sailor, h. 33 William. Two other Cornishes on the page: John cornish, Sailor, h. 174 Folsom; and Miss Elizabeth Cornish, dressmaker, 546 Main.

1880 Unable to find this Joseph Cornish in the US Census, any state, however, Washington Carter was living in Buffalo at 33 William.

1881 Canadian Census (from Archivia.net) black Cornishes in Ontario: John Cornish 88, b. USA, Roman Catholic, Toronto, St. James Ward, Dist 134, Sub Dist E, Div 1, sh 28; and his wife, Anne 78, b. USA, Roman Catholic. No idea if these are related to Joseph.