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From: "Deborah Aldridge" <>
Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] CORNISH family of South Carolina
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:09:55 -0500

Timothy,

I believe I have your info from the file on Family Search. You must have
been doing this a long while, and very thoroughly, I might add.

So James Cornish (the Sr.) actually was a founding father of Saybrook and
Simsbury? It has long been the tale in our family that his father, John,
was a pirate from Cornwall. I have queries out to many British lists, but
noone so far has found out anything.

Which of the families are you descended from? Here is the further
geneaology of the Cornishes in S.C. Martha Elvira Cornish (I believe your
file ends with her on my line) was my great-grandmother. She was supposedly
a very stern and strict woman, hard to get close to. She married my
ggrandfather, John Girardeau Wilkinson and they lived on Edisto Island, SC.
Most of the other Cornishes, with the exception of Col. George Cornish,
lived in other parts of the state. I have other descendants, children of
these I am sending, but haven't entered them yet. If you are interested,
let me know.

Ernestine Faith Cornish's daughter, Jane Murray, is my godmother. "Aunt
Faith" as we called her, was a prominent local artist, and taught me to draw
during summer visits to Edisto.

The Wilkinson family has a pretty illustrious ancestry. Our line is
directly descended from Landgrave Joseph Morton, twice governor under the
Lord's Proprietors. His son, LG Joseph II had a daughter, Elizabeth, who
married Christopher Wilkinson (his gggrandfather, Christopher, is said to be
of the Wilkinsons of Harperly House, England, but this has not been proved.
We know his family was from Barton, St Mary's, Yorkshire). I just started
my search a few months ago, and don't have much historical background on
these families yet, and what I have I am still putting together, but if you
are interested in this branch, I will send you the finished product.

Thank you so much for your file.

Deborah

Descendants of Gabriel C. Cornish (grandfather of Andrew (Dr.) Cornish)

1. Gabriel C. Cornish
+ Mercy Wilcoxson or Wilcox
2. Andrew Hilliard Cornish b. 7/15/1751 Canaan, Litchfield, CT.
+ Huldah Shepherd m 1770 in Ashford,Berkshire, Mass.
3. Andrew Cornish b. 6/27/1782 New Ashford, Berkshire, Mass., chr.
8/30/1789 Lanesboro, Berkshire, Mass.

Descendants of Dr. Andrew Cornish

1 Andrew (Dr.) Cornish b. 8/30/1789 Lanesboro, Berkshire, MASS.
... +Rhoda Bradley b:21 Mar 1788 D: 25 Jan 1858
Cornichville, ILL
2 John Hamilton (Rev.) Cornish b: March 06, 1815 Lanesboro, Berkshire,
Mass.
.... +Martha Sarah Jenkins b: 1821 m: January 22, 1843 Edisto Island,
S.C. d: 1864
... 3 Rhoda Cornish b: 1843 d: 1899
... 3 Martha Elvira Cornish b: August 25, 1845 Aiken, Aiken, S.C.
....... +John Girardeau Wilkinson b: Abt. 1843 of Edisto Island, S.C. m:
February 06, 1879 Edisto
Island, S.C.
...... 4 John Cornish Wilkinson b: 1880 S.C.
.......... +Lilian Clark b: Abt. 1883 of Columbia, S.C.
...... 4 Francis Allston Wilkinson b: 1882 d: S.C.
.......... +Mary Violet Westcott b: 1890 of Edisto Island, S.C. d:
1980
... 3 Elizabeth Laroche Cornish b: July 25, 1847 d: March 1848
... 3 Mary Amory Cornish b: December 13, 1851 d: January 14, 1889
....... +States Lee Baynard b: Abt. 1849 of Charleston, S.C.
...... 4 John Wilkinson Baynard b: February 12, 1883 S.C.
...... 4 Joseph Cornish Baynard b: 1884 S.C. d: 1885 S.C.
...... 4 Mary Amory Baynard b: 1886 S.C. d: 1890 S.C.
...... 4 Ernest Cornish (Dr.) Baynard b: December 12, 1888 S.C. d:
1928
.......... +Emily Whaley b: Abt. 1891 of Charleston, S.C.
... 3 John William Cornish b: April 04, 1853 S.C. d: July 21, 1872
... 3 Joseph Jenkins (Rev.) Cornish b: December 09, 1855
....... +Elizabeth Percy Hereford b: Abt. 1858 m: September 04, 1890
...... 4 Rowena Sterling Cornish b: June 04, 1891 S.C.
.......... +Arthur Budlong b: Abt. 1888
...... 4 Joseph Jenkins Cornish b: December 1893 S.C.
... 3 Sarah Mills Cornish b: May 07, 1857 S.C.
....... +George Washington S(eabrook?) Jenkins b: Abt. 1855 S.C. m:
June
10, 1885
...... 4 Sarah Mercelline Jenkins b: March 22, 1886 S.C.
.......... +George Cullen (Dr.) Battle b: Abt. 1884
... 3 Andrew Ernest (Rev.) Cornish b: December 04, 1861 S.C. Aiken,
Aiken,
S.C. d: October
12, 1920
....... +Sarah Catherine Fairbanks b: February 11, 1858 St. Augustine,Fl.
m: September 12, 1889 Sewanee, Tn. d: January 06, 1918
...... 4 George Rainsford Fairbanks (Col.) Cornish b: July 08, 1890
S.C.
.......... +Helen Whaley b: Abt. 1892 of Charleston, S.C. m: Abt. 1921
...... 4 Sarah Catherine Cornish b: June 10, 1892 S.C. d: February
03,
1948
.......... +Richard Tyler Crawford b: June 28, 1897 m: Abt. 1917 d:
May 31,
1928
...... *2nd Husband of Sarah Catherine Cornish:
.......... +Richard T. King b: Abt. 1890 m: Aft. 1928
...... 4 Gertrude Drew Cornish b: December 27, 1894 S.C. d: S.C.
.......... +Henry DeSaussure (Rev.) Bull b: November 09, 1885 of
Charleston, S.C. d: April 26, 1957
...... 4 Ernestine Faith Cornish b: December 09, 1897 S.C.
.......... +Chalmers Swinton Murray b: Abt. 1895 of Edisto Island,
S.C.
... 3 Katherine Theodosia Cornish b: January 28, 1864 S.C. d:
February
16, 1948

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