Individual Details
WILLIAM COREY
(1 Apr 1801 - Sep 1850)
With his brother Stephen he received from his father's will "the remainder of my farm at Washademoak, they paying my daughters Esther and Abigail each (pound symbol)15."
William is reported to have lived briefly at Lower Cambridge on the Washademoak, where he was a deacon when the Baptist Church was organized there on 5 Dec 1839. And it was there, apparently, he met and married his wife, whose family came from Washademoak Lake.
However, William returned to the New Canaan area by 1847, and it was there he was killed in 1850. William's death is reported:
24 Sept 1850: Melancholy accident in New Canaan, William Corey, while working in the woods near his home, received a blow from a falling tree which resulted in his death, left wife and family." [New Brunswick Courier, 24 Sep 1850]
After William's death, Elizabeth lived with her son, Thomas D. Corey, in Springfield NB. She was returned to the Macdonald cemetery on the northwest side of Washademoak Lake for burial, where there is a headstone for her giving her age s 63.
The case of the purloined parent
A particularly serious error of genealogy has been handed down by family tradition concerning William. Stanley Corey related it to me in this way:
Years ago Mrs Earl Stairs of Meductic NB, showed me a family account which both surprised and shocked me. It was an account of William Corey, son of Gideon, and his descendants. Perhaps you have seen it. According to this account, William at one time lived in Carleton County, and on 2 Aug 1819 married Abigail Skidgill in Woodstock. I realized at once when I read that, that someone had tried to steal my great-great-grandmother Corey. I have seen that church record a d have a certified copy of it. The name of the groom was clearly Thomas Cory, and the date of the marriage was indeed 2 Aug 1819. So someone had seen that church record, but had decided to substitute the name of William Corey for Thomas Cory . I'm glad that you know that William Corey, son of Gideon, married Elizabeth Macdonald. There is no evidence that William Corey was ever in the area that became Carleton County.
Elizabeth died 11 Jan 1867 at Springfield NB, where she was living with a son, probably William, who was a Baptist minister there.
References: children as given in Generations 39, March 1989: Stanley Corey letter to D.T.Lahey July 9-14 1995; D.F. Johnson, New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Newspapers, Vol 13, 1852-1852 [Corey Book]
[Mill Hill picture - Mill Hill, going into Havelock NB, with Corey house center, and mill, right.]
[Mill Pond picture - Mill Pond, Havelock NB, with Corey house and mill.]
[Hannah Jones headstone - "Hannah wife of Jacob Jones Died Oct 31, 1853 in her 63 year"]
[Jacob Jones headstone - "In memory of Jacob Jones who died May 10, 1868 in the 53 Year of his age"]
[William Corey headstone - "In memory of William Corey died on the 27 Nov. 1850 in the 51st Year of his age"]
William is reported to have lived briefly at Lower Cambridge on the Washademoak, where he was a deacon when the Baptist Church was organized there on 5 Dec 1839. And it was there, apparently, he met and married his wife, whose family came from Washademoak Lake.
However, William returned to the New Canaan area by 1847, and it was there he was killed in 1850. William's death is reported:
24 Sept 1850: Melancholy accident in New Canaan, William Corey, while working in the woods near his home, received a blow from a falling tree which resulted in his death, left wife and family." [New Brunswick Courier, 24 Sep 1850]
After William's death, Elizabeth lived with her son, Thomas D. Corey, in Springfield NB. She was returned to the Macdonald cemetery on the northwest side of Washademoak Lake for burial, where there is a headstone for her giving her age s 63.
The case of the purloined parent
A particularly serious error of genealogy has been handed down by family tradition concerning William. Stanley Corey related it to me in this way:
Years ago Mrs Earl Stairs of Meductic NB, showed me a family account which both surprised and shocked me. It was an account of William Corey, son of Gideon, and his descendants. Perhaps you have seen it. According to this account, William at one time lived in Carleton County, and on 2 Aug 1819 married Abigail Skidgill in Woodstock. I realized at once when I read that, that someone had tried to steal my great-great-grandmother Corey. I have seen that church record a d have a certified copy of it. The name of the groom was clearly Thomas Cory, and the date of the marriage was indeed 2 Aug 1819. So someone had seen that church record, but had decided to substitute the name of William Corey for Thomas Cory . I'm glad that you know that William Corey, son of Gideon, married Elizabeth Macdonald. There is no evidence that William Corey was ever in the area that became Carleton County.
Elizabeth died 11 Jan 1867 at Springfield NB, where she was living with a son, probably William, who was a Baptist minister there.
References: children as given in Generations 39, March 1989: Stanley Corey letter to D.T.Lahey July 9-14 1995; D.F. Johnson, New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Newspapers, Vol 13, 1852-1852 [Corey Book]
[Mill Hill picture - Mill Hill, going into Havelock NB, with Corey house center, and mill, right.]
[Mill Pond picture - Mill Pond, Havelock NB, with Corey house and mill.]
[Hannah Jones headstone - "Hannah wife of Jacob Jones Died Oct 31, 1853 in her 63 year"]
[Jacob Jones headstone - "In memory of Jacob Jones who died May 10, 1868 in the 53 Year of his age"]
[William Corey headstone - "In memory of William Corey died on the 27 Nov. 1850 in the 51st Year of his age"]
Events
| Birth | 1 Apr 1801 | New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick |  | ||
| Marriage | 5 Jul 1821 | ELIZABETH MACDONALD | | ||
| Death | Sep 1850 | New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick | | ||
| Burial | New Canaan Baptist Cemetery, New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick | |
Families
| Spouse | ELIZABETH MACDONALD (1801 - 1867) |
| Child | DONALD COREY (1822 - ) |
| Child | GARDNER COREY (1825 - 1901) |
| Child | JAMES COREY (1826 - 1901) |
| Child | THOMAS D. COREY (1831 - 1901) |
| Child | ISRAEL COREY (1832 - ) |
| Child | DELILAH COREY (1833 - ) |
| Child | WILLIAM ALLEN COREY (1837 - 1882) |
| Child | ALEXANDER COREY (1840 - ) |
| Child | JANET M. COREY (1841 - ) |
| Child | MALCOLM COREY (1842 - ) |
| Father | GIDEON ELISHA CLARK COREY (1757 - 1824) |
| Mother | ABIGAIL CLARKE (1766 - 1849) |
| Sibling | ELISHA CLARKE COREY (1784 - 1836) |
| Sibling | HANNAH COREY (1786 - 1853) |
| Sibling | ELIZABETH COREY (1789 - 1875) |
| Sibling | THOMAS COREY (1790 - 1857) |
| Sibling | ESTHER COREY (1794 - 1861) |
| Sibling | GARDNER COREY (1794 - 1864) |
| Sibling | STEPHEN COREY (1797 - 1840) |
| Sibling | ABIGAIL COREY (1798 - 1861) |
| Sibling | DANIEL COREY ( - ) |
Endnotes
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