Query on Walter CORNISH parents

Started by Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 on Sunday, June 21, 2020
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Walter Cornish is on Geni with
* born 1892
* died 1950
* married Anastasia Dorothea Cornish
* father James Henry Cornish 1856-1899
2 mothers
* mother 1 - Melanie Sarah Cornish 1861-1929 - daughter of Isaac Curtis and Elizabeth Curtis
* mother 2 - Sarah Cornish 1861-1929

Can anyone add any information on this family?

NSW Marriage Record 2776/1874 - Henry James CORNISH married Melanie Sarah RUDDER - Macleay River

NSW Marriage Record 13607/1921 - Walter CORNISH married Anastasia CRONIN - Merriwa

NSW Birth Record 10447/1892 - Walter CORNISH, father James H, mother Sarah - Cassilis

NSW Death Record 15940/1929 - Sarah CORNISH, father Isaac, mother Elizabeth - Coolah

NSW Marriage Record 2743/1878 - Jason H CORNISH married Sarah CURTIS - Cassilis

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6/22/2020 at 5:00 AM

James Henry Cornish Walter Cornish is my grandfather. My mother, who is still alive says his mother was Sarah Cornish, ( born Curtis) and that her parents were Isaac Curtis and Elizabeth Sims or Sim.
The obituary for the death of Sarah Cornish in the Mudgee Guardian, July 19, 1929, correctly lists the names of her deceased husband, James Henry and her 13 children.
It further states that “she was born at Merriwa 68 years ago and was a daughter of the well-known Curtis family of that locality”.
The death certificate for Richard Cornish, James Henry’s father, does not list a Jason Cornish as one of his children.
I cannot find a marriage record for them on Births Deaths and Marriages.

I wonder if the marriage record of Jason H is a transcription error?

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107141590
Evening News - Thursday 3 December 1874 Page 2
MARRIAGE
On November 18, at the residence of the bride's parents, Kempsey by the Rev. Henry Porter, Henry John Cornish, of Cundletown, to Melanie Sarah, fourth daughter of Enoch W. Rudder, of Kempsey.

Private User, can you please not change profile names and details particularly when there are curator notes opposite to what you change it to

Melanie Sarah RUDDER is NOT the same person as Sarah CURTIS. Their husbands are NOT the same person.

2 families have become confused and we are trying to work out who belongs to who and add sources to them so they don't become confused again.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155961556
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative - Friday 19 July 1929 - Page 11

Obituary
MRS SARAH CORNISH
On July 6 at Coolah, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs J. Casey, the death occurred of one of the most highly respected residents of the Cassilis district, Mrs Sarah Cornish of 'Binalong'. To know the deceased lady was a privilege; she was a woman who nobly fought life's battle, always hiding her own troubles and ever solicitous for the welfare
of others. She had just made preparations for the building of a home in the town, where she proposed retiring to spend the evening of her life in peace and quietness, but the Great Architect saw fit to promote here to a more lasting home, as her reward for a life nobly lived, and spent in the care of a large family.
The late Mrs Cornish was born at Merriwa 68 years ago, and was a daughter of the well known Curtis family of that locality. At the early age of 16 she married the late James
Henry Cornish, of Cassilis and took up her residence in that district. Her husband died in 1898 leaving her with a family of 13 children the eldest being 19 years of age, and the youngest a baby in arms. With wonderful courage she managed her property and reared her
family, eventually with their assistance reaching that stage when she was in a position to contemplate living comfortably on the fruits of her labors. But although a healthy woman all her life, the strain had evidently proved to much for her strength, and her health gave way
some 12 or 18 months ago. An operation seemed to give her a new lease of life, but of late her health gradually gave way and in spite of medical skill and nursing death claimed her. Out of 13 children reared to manhood and womanhood 11 remain to mourn the loss of a devoted mother: Harry, Cooba Bulga, Cassilis; Isaac, Coolah; Alf Binalong, Cassilis; Fred Coolah; Russell, Leadville; Walter, Merriwa; Richard, Arthur, Cassilis: Ernest Coolah;
George Cassilis: Mrs J. Casey, Coolah; Mrs F. Stahl, Kandos. Two daughters pre-deceased her, Mrs Casey, (Ada Elizabeth) and Mrs W. H. Collins (Ethel. The deceased was spending a holiday with her daughter when she was overtaken by her last illness, and her remains were
laid to rest in the church yard of St. Columbas Anglican Church, Cassilis in the presence of a large gathing of friends and sympathisers, the Rev. Carlos Sketch officiating at the graveside.

Obituary mentions children of Sarah CORNISH nee CURTIS as

* Harry, Cooba Bulga, Cassilis - Henry James Cornish
* Isaac, Coolah; - Isaac Cornish
* Alf Binalong, Cassilis; - Alfred Cornish
* Fred Coolah; - Frederick Cornish
* Russell, Leadville; - Russell Cornish
* Walter, Merriwa; - Walter Cornish
* Richard Arthur, Cassilis: - Richard Arthur Cornish
* Ernest Coolah; - Ernest John Cornish
* George Cassilis: - George Leslie Cornish
* Mrs J. Casey, Coolah;
* Mrs F. Stahl, Kandos. Amy Stahl
* Mrs Casey, (Ada Elizabeth) - deceased
* Mrs W. H. Collins (Ethel) - deceased - Ethel Anne A Collins

These are the 2 families - now seperated on Geni

Sarah CURTIS 1861-1929
* father Isaac CURTIS
* mother Elizabeth SIM
* married 1878 James Henry CORNISH 1856-1899 (marriage recorded as Jason H CORNISH)
children
* 1879 Henry James
* 1880 Isaac
* 1882 Ethel Anne
* 1886 Alfred
* 1889 Frederick
* 1890 Russell
* 1892 Walter
* 1894 Richard Arthur
* 1896 Amy
* 1897 Ernest John
* 1899 George Leslie

Melanie Sarah RUDDER 1837-1911
* father Enoch William RUDDER
* mother Emma BETTS
* married Henry John / James CORNISH 1824-1908
children
* 1875 Mary Flora (adopted her niece)

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