The family history of Cork or Corke ancestors is one of social mobility: from the City of London, east to Spitalfields and Aldgate, then north and west around London, to Hackney, Edmonton and Southgate/Friern Barnet, increasing in prosperity with my great-grandfather Ben. His mother signed her marriage certificate with a mark, but his estate was worth £4000 in 1906. His two eldest sons left the family and changed their name when he married the housekeeper within a few months of his first wife's death. The rest of the family broke up when his second wife remarried on his death a few years later, with three of his children emigrating to Canada.

Nicholas Cork(e) m Mary Crundwell 12 MAY 1764, Hadlow, Kent Thomas Cork(e) b. 2 FEB 1765, Farningham, Kent William Cork(e) chr. 19 AUG 1767, Farningham, Kent Richard Cork(e) James Cork(e) Anna Maria Cork(e) chr. 31 MAR 1773, Tonbridge m. 26 FEB 1797 Henry Headland, Tonbridge Robert Cork(e) chr. 7 OCT 1774, Tonbridge Sally Cork(e), chr. 20 DEC 1776, Tonbridge Katherine Vigors Cork(e), chr. 14 OCT 1778, Tonbridge Clara Cork(e) chr. 8 OCT 1779, Tonbridge Fanny Cork(e) chr. 24 FEB 1782, Tonbridge

James Cork(e) labourer chr. 21 JUN 1771 Tonbridge d. 23 JUL 1846, bur. Abney Park Cemetery m. 19 SEP 1793, St Peter le Poer, London Deborah Wingod James Cork(e) Robert Wingod Cork b 3 APRIL 1796 chr 26 DEC 1796 St Botolph Bishopsgate ?Richard Cork buried as infant St Botolph Bishopsgate 2 JULY 1797 Richard Wingod Cork(e) Mary Nevill Cork(e) b 6 APR 1804 chr 26 AUG 1804 Christ Ch Spitalfields m. 23 AUG 1835 Philip Cross Cannell St John Baptist Hoxton

Richard Cork(e) chr. 4 January 1769 Tonbridge m. 12 MAY 1801 Christ Church Spitalfields Swinfield Pullen b. ?1779/1781 Leyton Richard Cork(e) chr 10 MAR 1802 St Clement Danes Thomas Nicholas Cork(e) chr 22 NOV 1803 St Botolph Bishopsgate

 

James Cork Deborah Wingod James Cork(e) portmanteau/trunk maker b 31 MAY 1794 chr 27 NOV 1794 All Hallows London Wall d 4 NOV 1868, bur. Brompton Cemetery

m 25 DEC 1819 at Christ Church Spitalfields Mary Elizabeth Corke James Corke b 16 OCT 1820 chr 12 NOV 1820 d 11 DEC 1880 bur Finchley Edward Richard Corke Benjamin Corke b 22 MAR 1824 chr 18 APR 1824 St Leonard's Shoreditch d 17 OCT1824 bur Bunhill Fields. Benjamin Corke Mary Ann Deborah Corke b 6 OCT 1828 d 5 DEC 1852 bur Abney Park Cemetery m 13 MAY 1847 Henry Douglas Fairnass

James Cork Deborah Wingod James Cork(e) Mary Elizabeth Corke Edward Richard Corke b. 15 MAR 1822 chr 14 APR 1822 St Leonard's Shoreditch d. 25 OCT 1913, Margate

m.(1) 24 FEB 1845 at St Stephen Walbrook Jane Apps

m.(2) 5 SEPT 1872 at St Giles Cripplegate Mary Anne Smith (d. 1897)

m. (3) - DEC 1900 Caroline Maria Coombs (d. 30 JAN 1937)

James Cork Deborah Wingod       James Cork(e) Mary Elizabeth Corke Benjamin Corke b 12 AUG 1825 Walbrook d 5 JAN1887 bur Abney Park Cemetery

m.4 JULY 1859 at St Olave Old Jewry Fanny Wood d. 16 DEC 1919, New Zealand Arthur Edward Corke Albert Bertram Corke Percy Benjamin Corke emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand 1909 Kenneth Corke Hubert John Corke Archibald James Corke Clifford Selmes Corke emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand 1909 m. 30 JULY 1911 Nellie Elizabeth Slaughter in Dunedin: 4 daughters, 9 grandchildren, and 29 great- grandchildren.

James Cork Deborah Wingod Richard Wingod Cork(e) b 13 JULY 1798, Paternoster Row, Spitalfields d 22 DEC 1879, Infirmary, Hackney Union Wine Porter/Cooper

m 23 OCT 1831 at St Leonard's Shoreditch Sarah Keyes b 1802-1804, ?Maldon, Essex d 30 DEC 1880, 116 Ballance Road, Homerton Sarah Corke b 23 OCT 1832 Robert Street (St Leonards, Shoreditch) d 13 APRIL 1920 Burial: 22 APRIL 1920, Gt Northern Cemetery Southgate L1494 Alfred James Corke b 20 MAR 1834 Wellclose Square chr 20 MAR 1836 St George in the East drowned in Clapton Pond, Hackney 2 DEC 1846 Elizabeth Corke Mary Corke b. 29 NOV 1837 Goodmans Fields Whitechapel d 9 MAY 1866 5 Walcot Place Hackney Ann Crundall Corke b 7 MAR 1840 14 Church Lane St George in the East d 15 NOV 1863 8 Gloucester St David Corke b 8 JUN 1842 North St Hackney d. 21 Jun 1843 Exmouth Place Hackney Benjamin Corke

James Cork Deborah Wingod       Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes Elizabeth Corke b 13 JAN 1836 chr 20 MAR 1836 St George in the East

m. 1 AUG 1863 Congregational Church, Middleton Rd, Dalston William Callow, widower b 14 JAN 1836 Clement Callow Gyp Callow Hetty Callow Bee Callow Charles Callow Mary (Polly) Callow

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes   William Callow Elizabeth Corke Clement Callow

m.Elsa ?? Erik Callow

William Callow Elizabeth Corke       Clement Callow Elsa ?? Erik Callow

m.Eva Potier Marianne Callow

 

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes   William Callow Elizabeth Corke Charles Callow

m.Toto ?? Neil Callow Maurice Callow Max Callow

William Callow Elizabeth Corke       Charles Callow Toto ?? Neil Callow

m. ?? Simon Callow

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes   William Callow Elizabeth Corke Mary (Polly) Callow

m.Sam Brown Donald Brown Clement Brown Joan Brown Monica Brown Tony Brown

William Callow Elizabeth Corke   Sam Brown Mary (Polly) Callow Tony Brown

m. ? Iona Brown?

James Cork Deborah Wingod       Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes Benjamin Corke b 23 AUGUST 1844, Exmouth Place, South Hackney d 8 JUNE 1894, Friern Barnet Burial: 13 JUNE 1894, Gt Northern Cemetery Southgate  Distillers Gauger/Valuer

m.(1) 27 APRIL 1867 at Register Office Hackney Mary Rippon George Seymour Sidney Seymour Alfred Corke b 1872, Hackney d  1872 Crofton Corke b 1872, Hackney d  1872   Maude Mary Corke Edith Symes Corke Gilbert Corke Dora (Theodora Sarah Violet) Corke Muriel Faith Corke Crofton Richard (Dick) Corke b. 6 FEB 1885 d. 6 DEC 1892 Gt Northern Cemetery Southgate  Amy Hilda Corke Edmund Coote b ?1874/5 (adopted)

m.(2) 16 JAN 1886 at Parish Church Friern Barnet Agnes Selina Brown

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon George Seymour b 31 JULY 1868, Hackney d 13 APRIL 1905, Ireland

m. 15 JULY 1891 Mary ?? George Seymour

Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon       George Seymour Mary ?? George Seymour

m.Violet ?? Georgie Seymour

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Sidney Seymour (H S Rippon Seymour) b 22 MAY 1870, Hackney

m. Elizabeth Reid b. ?1874 d.8 August 1917, Edinburgh

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Maude Mary Corke b 6 APRIL 1873, 3 Church Crescent Hackney d 17 MARCH 1948, St Luke's Hospital Chelsea Burial: Putney Vale  Nursery Governess

m.Archibald Alexander Wilson

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Edith Symes Corke b 8 NOV 1877, Edmonton

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Gilbert Corke b 8 MARCH 1879, Edmonton d ?1949 Canada

m.Marion Lyall Lyall Corke Doreen Corke Nora Corke Kathleen Corke Ben Corke

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Dora (Theodora Sarah Violet) Corke b 13 AUGUST 1880, Edmonton d 1970

m.Harry Willis Gilbert Willis Joan Willis Arthur Willis Sheila Willis

Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Harry Willis Dora (Theodora Sarah Violet) Corke Arthur Willis

m. (1) Peggy Ball Paul Willis David Willis

Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Harry Willis Dora (Theodora Sarah Violet) Corke Sheila Willis b. 1909

m.Thomas Laurence Walsh b. ?1912 Nicolas Walsh b. 6 April 1945 m. Amanda Laidler Amy Walsh b. 27 June 1992

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes       Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Muriel Faith Corke m.William Newman Berkeley (Billy) Newman

Richard Wingod Cork(e) Sarah Keyes         Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon Amy Hilda Corke b. 6 FEB 1885 d. 1974 m.Roland Cooper Vera Cooper Norah Cooper

Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon   Roland Cooper Amy Hilda Corke Vera Cooper m.(1) Ken Cameron Alasdair Cameron Neil Cameron Robert Cameron m.(2) George Walton

Benjamin Corke Mary Rippon   Roland Cooper Amy Hilda Corke Norah Cooper

m.William Mulligan John Mulligan Claire Mulligan Rosamund Mulligan

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