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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: Oscar WILLIAMS & Mary COFFIN, m1905 Nantucket, MA
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:09:45 -0500


Hello,

I don't believe I've asked about this family in over a year. Since I
don't know any further information, I'd like to copy/paste my query from
April 2006:




Edward C. COFFIN and Olive G. ELDREDGE had two children:
George E. COFFIN and Martha COFFIN (Martha died Age 12??)

George E. COFFIN was in Nantucket in the 1880 Census.
In 1881 he was in Truro, NS, in Canadian Census.
He was living in LEWIS household there.
In 1882, he married Mrs. LEWIS's younger sister, Esther CORKILL.
According to one Census record, Esther "immigrated" in 1884, so
I think that means that George and Esther COFFIN went to Nantucket then.
(It's possible they had a baby with them when they moved.)

>From the same Census record, I found out that Mrs. Esther COFFIN gave birth
to ten children. But, most of them must have died young, as in 1910,
only two children were living. I don't know the birth-years, but they had
to have been between 1882 and 1902.

The only child I know about so far is:
Mary E. COFFIN.
She married Oscar F. WILLIAMS in Sept. 1905.
So, she must have been born around 1885, or before.
Perhaps she was born in Nova Scotia in 1883 and came with her parents when
they moved to Nantucket.

Helpful researchers showed that in the 1910 Census, Oscar and Mary WILLIAMS
were living only a few houses away from her parents, George and Esther
COFFIN on Howard Street.

Oscar and Mary WILLIAMS in 1910 had children:
Harold, 3, Florence, 2, and Chester, 4 mos.

..I'd very much like to find out whether the other child of George and
Esther COFFIN was a son, who would have been a ____ COFFIN in 1910, or a
daughter, who would have been listed with a married name in 1910.

George COFFIN was about 20 years older than his wife, and Mrs. Esther
COFFIN might have been a widow in the 1920 Census.



Thank you for your time.

Betty (near Lowell, MA)


P.S. As I've said in the past, Esther CORKILL was one of 5 children who
came to Nova Scotia as "British Home Children" in 1874 and 1875.

I found out last year that they had an older brother, Edward CORKILL, who
came to Canada in 1873 but went to directly to British Columbia.

I have no idea whether the 6 siblings remained in contact with each other.
I have no idea whether the children remained in contact with their father,
Evan CORKILL, who remained living in Liverpool, England, for many years !




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