Person:John Coren (1)

John Coren (?1720-?1801) . John Coren was the third child of William Coren and Mary James. The date of his birth is uncertain. It is unlikely that he is the John Goram' baptized on 12 August 1727 at Gulval, and he was probably born about 1720. He may have married Mary Warren at Madron in 1748, but it is far likelier that he married Elizabeth Harris at Sancreed on 25 April 1747. She was the daughter of Charles Harris of Tregerrow in Sancreed. Like his father, John was a cordwainer, and on his father's death in 1750 he became the owner of the lower, or eastern, part of the house at Chyandour. He was still there until after 1791, and could well have been the John Corin, senior, cordwainer, listed in a 1797 directory. He probably died in 1801 and was buried in Gulval on 21 January 1801. John and Elizabeth Corin seem to have been Congregationalists like their father.

Six children are mentioned in Jacob's will, and the addition of John, James and Catherine is conjectural, though an interpretation of John's son, Jacob's, will, proved in 1843, suggests the addition of John. The position is complicated by our knowing nothing about the nephew John' mentioned in William Coren's 1749 will. It is possible that John and Elizabeth had eleven children in all:

1 ELIZABETH CORIN (174?-?), born before mid-1749. She married Matthew Read the younger' at Madron on 1 January 1773. Matthew and Elizabeth Read were still alive in 1785.

2 JOHN CORIN (1750-1805) may be included here. He was baptized at Madron on 25 March 1750 (still then the first day of the year). He was a miller, and on 19 January 1775 his father assigned Vellan Hogan mills in Gulval to him. He also owned the Kitty Pool Fields in Lower Barlewener, and around this time he assigned them to a Miss Priscilla Foss of Gulval. Villanhogan was a fair sized house, declaring four windows for the Window Tax in 1777 and 1795. On 27 June 1780 he married Jane Pascoe by licence. At the time of general mobilisation in 1803, he had one cow and eight pigs available for rations in an emergency. He alone was of an age to serve in defence. John Corin died in 1805 and his widow inherited his property. John and Jane had six children:

2.1 JOHN CORIN (1780-18??), baptized on 6 September 1780. He married Grace Rodda at Madron on 7 November 1803 (Joseph Corin was a witness), and had five children:

2.1.1 ELIZA CORIN (1804-1823), baptized at Penzance on 11 November 1804, who died on 16 June 1823.

2.1.2 JOHN CORIN (1806-1859), baptized on 30 November 1806. He married Nancy Oats on 4 April 1831 at St Levan - the witnesses were Thomas Jose and John Jefferey. Nancy was from St Just, and had been born in 1800. John and Nancy were at Trungle Farm, Paul, in 1844. John died on 15 March 1859, and Nancy in 1883. They had eight children:

2.1.2.1 GRACE CORIN (1831-?), baptized at Paul on 31 October 1831. She may have married in 1854, and may have emigrated to America.

2.1.2.2 JOHN CORIN (1833-183?), baptized on 13 January 1833, who died in infancy.

2.1.2.3 MARY CORIN (1834-183?), baptized on 31 August 1834, who also died in infancy.

2.1.2.4 MARY CORIN (1835-?), baptized on 16 December 1835. She had an illegitimate child in 1857, and subsequently married the father, William Chirgwin on 24 June 1860.

2.1.2.4.1 WILLIAM HENRY CHIRGWIN CORIN (1857-1858) was the illegitimate son. He was baptized on 6 February 1857, and died in 1858.

2.1.2.4.2 EDWIN CORIN CHIRGWIN (1861-?) was born after Mary and William married. He was baptized on 13 October 1861 at Paul. He emigrated to New Zealand, and married Eliza Jane Bawden at Auckland in 1880. They had a son:

2.1.2.4.2.1 RICHARD CHIRGWIN (1896-?), born in 1896. He married Oliver Francis Clark in 1927. Their son was:

2.1.2.4.2.1.1 GARY ALAN CHIRGWIN (b.1937), who married Leonie Hitchen in 1966. She is one of the researchers of the present notes. They live at 8 Pau St., Noble Park, Victoria 3174 in Australia.

2.1.2.5 JOHN CORIN (1837-1843), baptized on 7 May 1837 at Paul, who died in 1843.

2.1.2.6 WILLIAM CORIN (1840-?), baptized on 12 January 1840. He married Mary Ann Thomas on 7 July 1863. The next year, he emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Thames, where he worked in the gold mine. He died in 1888 and Mary died in 1886. They had eight children.

2.1.2.7 HENRY CORIN (1842-?), baptized at Paul on 7 August 1842. He emigrated to New Zealand and married Elizabeth Smith Thomas on 19 August 1872 at Wellington. She may have been related to his brother William's wife. Henry died in 1908 and Elizabeth in 1912 in New Zealand. They had six children there:

2.1.2.7.1 HENRY MORTIMER CORIN (1875-?).

2.1.2.7.2 GEORGE CORIN (1881-1948), born on 23 March 1881. He married Margaret Mary Stanton on 21 April 1908. He died on 11 August 1948, and she on 18 June 1974. They had eight children:

2.1.2.7.2.1 GEORGE HENRY CORIN (1908-1943), born on 22 October 1948. He died on 28 April 1943.

2.1.2.7.2.2 SAMUEL ERIC ALVIN CORIN (1911-1975), born on 15 November 1911. He married Alice Emily Hughes on 28 June 1947, and died on 2 September 1975.

2.1.2.7.2.3 CHARLES MORTIMER CORIN (1913-1972), born on 4 August 1913, who died in 1972.

2.1.2.7.2.4 ELIZABETH CATHERINE CORIN (1915-), born on 2 November 1915.

2.1.2.7.2.5 JOAN MARY CORIN (1918-1930), born on 19 March 1918, who died in November 1930.

2.1.2.7.2.6 JOY ARONA CORIN (1921-), born on 23 March 1921.

2.1.2.7.2.7 MAVIS JOSEPHINE CORIN (1923-), born on 14 July 1923.

2.1.2.7.2.8 ROBERT STANTON CORIN (1927-1930), born in 1927, who died in 1930.

2.1.2.7.3 FANNY CORIN (1882-?).

2.1.2.7.4 LILIAN CORIN (18??-19??). She married a Mr McLeod, and was in Sydney in 1918. On 6 November 1918 she met William Corin (the electrical engineer, son of Edwin Paul Corin) in Sydney.

2.1.2.7.5 ELIZABETH CORIN (18??-?), of whom nothing more is known.

2.1.2.7.6 THOMAS CORIN (18??-?), of whom similarly little is known.

2.1.2.8 JOHN CORIN (1844-?), baptized at Paul on 2 December 1844, married Jane Pascoe in 1868. His father died when he was 14, and he stayed on with his mother at Trungle Farm, which he continued to farm. He and Jane had five children:

2.1.2.8.1 JOHN CORIN (1869-?).

2.1.2.8.2 WILLIAM CORIN (1871-19??), born in 1871. He married Ellen Green in 1890, and they had nine children:

2.1.2.8.2.1 HENRY CORIN (1894-19??), born in 1894. He married Emily Cattran in 1920, and they had three children:

2.1.2.8.2.1.1 ELLEN JANE CORIN (1920-), born in 1920. She married John Hilhorst in 1952 in the Netherlands, and they emigrated the next year to Ontario. In the 1980's they were living at 27 Peachwood Court, Kitchener, Ontario, N2B 1S7, and they have a daughter, born in 1956.

2.1.2.8.2.1.2 EMILY ISABEL CORIN (1922-), born in 1922. She married a Mr Harding in 1946.

2.1.2.8.2.1.3 WILLIAM HENRY CORIN (1924-), born in 1924. He married a Miss Kneebone. They have a son:

2.1.2.8.2.1.3.1 MICHAEL CORIN (b.1950), born in 1950. He married Evelyn M. Tonkin in 1974. They have two children:

2.1.2.8.2.1.3.1.1 PAUL MICHAEL CORIN (b.1976).

2.1.2.8.2.1.3.1.2 ANDREW WILLIAM R.N. CORIN (b.1979).

2.1.2.8.2.2 ELLEN CORIN (1896-19??), who perhaps married a Mr Burge in 1919.

2.1.2.8.2.3 JANE PASCOE CORIN (1892-19??), known as Janie. She married a Mr Elvin in 1921.

2.1.2.8.2.4 MARY HANNA P. CORIN (1899-?).

2.1.2.8.2.5 JOHN CORIN (1900-1985).

2.1.2.8.2.6 WILLIAM CORIN (190?-?). He possibly married a Miss Welch in 1929, and had a daughter:

2.1.2.8.2.6.1 GRACE CORIN (1920-).

2.1.2.8.2.7 FREDERICK GREEN CORIN (1905-1905), who died in infancy.

2.1.2.8.2.8 FREDERICK GREEN CORIN (1907-), born in 1907. He may have married a Miss Matthew in 1949.

2.1.2.8.2.9 LILY MAUD CORIN (1910-), born in 1910, who married a Mr Macdonald-Morgan in 1931.

2.1.2.8.3 HENRY CORIN (1875-?).

2.1.2.8.4 MARY CORIN (1877-?).

2.1.2.8.5 JOHANNA CORIN (1882-19??). She probably married in 1911.

2.1.3 GRACE CORIN (1808-?), baptized on 10 July 1808.

2.1.4 AMELIA CORIN (1810-?), baptized on 4 July 1810 at Sancreed.

2.1.5 MARY CORIN (1812-?), baptized on 22 March 1812.

2.2 JAMES CORIN (1782-18??), baptized at Gulval on 23 June 1782. He probably married Mary Blight on 14 August 1808. The witness was James Jenkin. For part of his life, James Corin was a miller. In 1814 he is described as a tanner, in 1816 as a labourer, from 1819 to 1821 as a carrier or carter, in 1823 as a labourer again, and by 1829 he had turned his hand to baking. In 1841 he was a porter. However, he had retired by 1851, when he and Mary were living with their son Edwin in Penzance. They seem to have had five children:

2.2.1 JENNY CORIN (1809-?), baptized at Penzance on 8 March 1809.

2.2.2 ELIZABETH CORIN (1814-?), baptized at Penzance on 5 June 1814.

2.2.3 MARY CORIN (1816-?), baptized at Penzance on 7 June 1816.

3.2.2.4 JAMES CORIN (1818-?), baptized at Penzance on 11 September 1818. He married Mary Jane Grose at Madron on 27 July 1844, and in 1851 the family were living in Adelaide St., Penzance, next door to James' brother Edwin and his parents. See the story in the "West Briton" of 8 March 1839. Their children were (but see James Corin (1824-?) in section J):

2.2.4.1 MARY CORIN.

2.2.4.2 ERNEST JONES CORIN.

2.2.4.3 EDWIN CORIN.

2.2.5 EDWIN JAMES CORIN (1820-?) was baptized at Penzance on 26 March 1820. He became a bootmaker, and was living in Adelaide Street, Penzance, in 1851 with his wife, Lucretia, and his parents.

2.2.6 JOHN CORIN (1821-?), baptized at Penzance on 21 September 1821.

2.2.7 ELIZABETH CORIN (1823-?), baptized at Penzance on 7 November 1823.

2.2.8 SARAH ANNE CORIN (1829-?), baptized at Penzance on Christmas Day 1829. She was a laundress in 1851.

2.2.9 MATILDA CORIN (1835-?), born in 1835/6.

2.3 CAROLINE CORIN (1784-?), baptized on 8 August 1784.

2.4 ELIZABETH CORIN (1786-1816), baptized on 27 August 1786. She died in 1816 and was buried on 20 November at Gulval.

2.5 JENNIFER CORIN (1789-?), baptized on 10 April 1789.

2.6 SUSANNA CORIN (1792-18??), baptized at Gulval on 2 July 1792. She married her cousin Jacob Corin at Madron on 15 January 1816. She acted as executor for her uncle Jacob's will on his death in 1843.

3 CHARLES CORIN (?1754-1832) was born in 1754 or 1755. In 1785 he inherited Long Rock from his uncle Jacob. On 20 May 1796 he married Jane Couch at Madron. She was probably related to the Richard Couch who shared a tenement at Chyandour with Jacob Corin in 1796 and who, with Jacob, was Overseer of the Poor for Madron in 1811. He was witness at their wedding. At the time of mobilization in 1803, he had one pig and one draft horse available. Charles lived to the age of 77, and was buried in Gulval on 9 March 1832. He and Jane had five children (though the mother of Elizabeth is given as Elizabeth, and the mother of Jane as Ann, so there may be some confusion here):

3.1 CHARLES CORIN (1796-1818), baptized on 18 December 1796, who died in 1818, aged 21.

3.2 ELIZABETH OLIVER CORIN (1800-?), baptized on 4 May 1800, who married John Uren on 7 April 1822.

3.3 JOHN CORIN (1803-?), baptized on 17 July 1803, who eventually inherited Long Rock farm and the house next to mine' from his father. His wife was from St Keverne. They had four children, none of whom appear to have been registered with the civil registrar:

3.3.1 WILLIAM CARLYON CORIN (1839-18??), baptized at Ludgvan on 3 February 1839. He died in infancy.

3.3.2 MARY CARLYON CORIN (?1842-?), who was born on 18 January 1840, and was baptized on 24 January 1842.

3.3.3 WILLIAM CARLYON CORIN (1843-1875), born in 1843, who was given the same name as his deceased brother. He went to Wales and worked as a copperman, but died on 21 February 1875 at Neath Road, Hafod, Swansea.

3.3.4 JANE GRACE CARLYON CORIN (1846-?), baptized on 26 January 1846.

3.4 JANE CORIN (1807-?), baptized on 11 October 1807, who inherited her father's house at Long Rock.

3.5 JACOB CORIN (1812-1816), baptized on 12 April 1812, who died in childhood. He was buried on 17 December 1816.

4 JACOB CORIN (?1762-1843) was born in 1762/63. He inherited Boswarthen from his uncle in 1785. The name Jacob is peculiar to this branch of the Corins, as is Joseph. The name may have come from the James family, but there is no evidence for this. The name Ralph is confined to the other side of the family.

He probably lived with his father at Chyandour, and inherited the house on his death. He also owned Barlewena, or Barley Winna, in 1799. His property at Boswarthen was occupied by Jane Tresise in 1806, and had an annual value of £16. In 1814, Madron Highway accounts show him as proprietor of part of Boswarthen valued at £48, and describe him as Jacob Corin, Parson: he was also the owner and proprietor of two houses with a value of £12.

He married Elizabeth Webb at Madron on 14 May 1814. She was described as a spinster, but Jacob's will, dated 2 July 1831, mentions two children, Mary and William Webb, and grandchildren, William and Mary Matilda Noy, so she may have been a widow. Jacob died in 1843 (his will was proved on 17 May) and is buried at Gulval. His will named two friends, James Glasson and John Sherris Brown as large beneficiaries. His wife Elizabeth had died between his making his will in 1831 and his own death in 1843, and his other executor, Caroline Ashplant had also died, so probate was granted to his niece Susanna Corin, the wife of Jacob Corin (see above).

5 JANE CORIN (?176?-?). She was alive by 1768. Not much is certain about her. She may have married Thomas Trezise, a widower, at Madron by licence on 18 November 1793. (Jacob Corin and Matthew Hosken were the witnesses.) However, the father of this Jane, a cordwainer, seems to have died intestate in 1827. She may also have been the mother of two illegitimate children:

5.1 ANN CARTER CORIN (1783-?), baptized at Breage on 20 March 1783.

5.2 EDWARD CARTER CORIN (1785-?), baptized at Madron on 5 May 1785.

6 JAMES CORIN (1765-1765), baptized on 14 January 1765, and buried at Gulval in August the same year.

7 SUSANNA CORIN (?176?-?), alive in 1768 and 1785.

8 ANN CORIN (?176?-1773), alive in 1768, but buried at Gulval on 6 April 1773.

9 JAMES CORIN (1768-1771), baptized on 1 January 1769 and buried at Gulval in November 1771.

10 CAROLINE CORIN (1766-18??), baptized at Madron on 30 November 1766. She married Isaac Ashplant of Falmouth some time between 1785 and 1791. Isaac was born in 1761. She was named as executor and residuary legatee in her brother Jacob's will, made in 1831, but she had died before his death in 1843.

The couple had two daughters, the younger being:

10.1 CAROLINE ASHPLANT (179?-18??), mentioned in her uncle Jacob's will in 1831 - he left her the freehold of a tenanted house at Barlewena.

11 CATHERINE CORIN (1773-1773), baptized at Madron on 4 April 1773, and buried at Gulval on 12 September in the same year.

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