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Record #3633

Name :: : Mary Elizabeth CORKILL (1860 - )
aka : Mary Elizabeth Corkhill
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1860
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Lancashire, Liverpool

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : Aug 1875
Country: : Canada
Ship: : - Unknown -
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Louisa Birt

NotesMary CORKILL's was one of the oldest of 7 children born to Evan and Elizabeth CORKILL in Liverpool, England. Elizabeth died in 1873, and she and her younger siblings went to the Liverpool Sheltering Homes in 1873 (when it opened). One of their older brothers had died as a child; their oldest brother went to a "Reform Ship" in Liverpool. He left for England, reportedly on his own, in 1873. He seemingly went directly to British Columbia, Canada. I do not know how he got there, or where he first arrived in Canada.

The 4 youngest siblings were sent to Canada in 1874. They were Julia CORKILL, Esther CORKILL, John CORKILL (5) and Robert "Robbie" CORKILL (3). Mary has misbehaved in 1874, so she wasn't allowed to travel with them. She pleaded with the officials to let her join them, and she was sent in 1875. They all went to different families in Nova Scotia.

Because of my 5-6 years of research, I have found out about their lives in Nova Scotia. Julia married and remained in Nova Scotia; she had 10 children, but her husband died shortly after the last was born. Esther married in Nova Scotia to a man from Nantucket, MA; she reportedly had almost 10 children, but I think only 2 lived to adulthood. They went to MA, and went to Nantucket later on. John married later in life, married an older woman, and then he died before she did. He did not have children. Robert never married; he died while in his 60's, still living in Nova Scotia.

Mary married another "home child," "Stanley" LEWIS, in 1879 in Nova Scotia. They had their first child there and then migrated to Massachusetts. They settled in Stoneham, MA, and raised 13 children. My grandfather was one of the youngest.

I have a picture of the family.

So, the 3 sisters did OK for themselves; the younger brothers didn't do so well, but they were only 5 and 3 when they arrived in Nova Scotia. I have been in contact with 2 descendants of Julia (CORKILL); I have not been able to locate Esther's descendants.

The older brother, Edward CORKILL, seems to have gone correctly to British Columbia on his own. He married near Vancouver a couple years later, and had at least 4 children. I have heard from descendants of his 2 daughters. One son died young; the older son did live and did marry, but I have not yet found out if he had children.

Oh, I forgot to say that the father of these children was a Master Mariner and sailed around the world. The mother died in 1873, and the father could not take care of them. He lived for maybe another 20 years, and remarried. I have no idea whether he ever saw his children again. And, I have no idea whether they corresponded, or whether the children knew that their father had remarried (still in Liverpool).

Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)

ContributorsCreated : 2008-04-15 12:54:13 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-02-04 20:58:02 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
14250	ALLEN, Alfred	1887	ENG,	1899 : - Unknown -	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
15360	ALLEN, John	1863	ENG,	1872 : - Unknown -	CAN	Maria Rye
15359	ALLISON, James	1861	ENG,	1872 : - Unknown -	CAN	Maria Rye
2756	ALLNUTT, Francis Benjamin	1876	ENG, KEN, Bromley	Mar 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home	14Germain
5749	ANDREWS, William		ENG,	Aug 1875 : - Unknown -	CAN	Louisa Birt
8730	BAILEY, Arthur William	1903	ENG,	1910 : - Unknown -	CAN	Barnardos
22722	BAIN, Gertrude	1922	SCT, , Aberdeen	Apr 1946 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
5724	BAKER, Charles	1870	ENG,	Aug 1875 : - Unknown -	CAN	Louisa Birt
14354	BAKER, Emma	1886	ENG,	1898 : - Unknown -	CAN	British Women\'s Emigration Association
15592	BAKER, Eva L		ENG,	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15767	BAKER, Horace	1876	ENG,	1889 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
2655	BAKER, John	1915	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	1920 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
14442	BALDWIN, Walter	1881	ENG,	1895 : - Unknown -	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
22015	BAMSEY, Joseph Frank	1892	ENG, , Devon	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18472	BARNES, Alfred	1870	ENG,	1885 : - Unknown -	CAN
18497	BARNES, Clarence George	1915	ENG,	1930 : - Unknown -	CAN
18519	BARNES, F G	1915	ENG,	1930 : - Unknown -	CAN
18703	BARNES, Henry	1867	ENG,	1881 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18705	BARNES, Henry	1899	ENG,	1899 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18707	BARNES, Herbert Leonard	1882	ENG,	1897 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18726	BARNES, Joseph	1878	ENG,	1893 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18737	BARNES, Matilda	1869	ENG,	1884 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18762	BARNES, Sarah Ann	1872	ENG,	1882 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18811	BARNES, William Henry	1894	ENG,	1909 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19000	BARNETT, Agnes	1853	ENG,	1871 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19003	BARNETT, Alfred	1890	ENG,	1900 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19007	BARNETT, Archibald	1894	ENG,	1908 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19016	BARNETT, Henry	1898	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19018	BARNETT, Lilian	1896	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19020	BARNETT, Rosina	1899	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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