Corbett Family

Anthony,

Here’s Moses & Mary’s marriage at 1st Ballyeaston Presbyterian church in 1860.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…

Moses address was Motherwell, Lanarkshire (Scotland). His father was Charles, a labourer. Mary was from Ballynure. Her father was also a labourer. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church, so you may find her baptism and that of any siblings in that church’s records. Ballyeaston 1st’s records start in 1813. There’s a copy in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast.

I’d guess that Mary accompanied Moses back to Scotland. Scotlandspeople has what looks like that couple in Dalziel registration area, Lanarkshire in the 1861 census. Moses is aged 26, Mary 17. GROS ref 639/3/11.

Hi Elwyn

Thank you for this. Do you know where would be the best place to find more information on the families?

You should get more information about Moses Corbett’s parents from his death certificate. It should contain his mother’s name and will also tell you if the parents were dead (though that seems fairly likely). Moses appears to have died in 1889 in Lanarkshire.

The 1860 marriage certificate tells us Moses father was Charles Corbett a labourer. Death registration started in 1864 in Ireland. I searched 1864 – 1900 but did not see a possible death. That makes me thing he died before 1864. There’s no Charles Corbett in Griffiths Valuation either so he may have died pre 1860.

I searched the statutory records for the Ballynure area looking for other Corbett marriages where the father was Charles but without success. I can see one or two other Corbett families living in the Ballynure area in the late 1800s but can’t connect them to your family.

For the Hill family you should obviously try Ballyeaston’s records to see if you can find any siblings for Mary. Labourers moved around a lot to follow the available work. They can be very difficult to trace sometimes. There’s no Thomas Hill listed in Ballynure in Griffiths (1862). As with Moses, if Mary Hill died in Scotland you should get her mothers name from her death certificate.

There are a number of Thomas Hill deaths registered in Larne (which includes Ballynure) between 1864 and 1900, of men of an age to be Mary’s father. All are on-line but one. All the ones I checked were farmers (not labourers) living in Islandmagee. There is one death in 1869 of a man aged 72. That record is not on-line free yet. If you are interested in it you need to pay to view it on the GRONI site. That will cost you £2.50.

You need to bear in mind that with the loss of most of the pre 1901 Irish censuses, a lot of the usual options for tracing families are lost.

There are a number of trees on Ancestry that have Moses & Mary but none seems to have any earlier information than we know at present. Most have Moses dying on 1.10.1899 in Motherwell. However I don’t see a death that matches that on Scotlandspeople. So probably worth checking. It looks to me as though he died in 1889. I also note the death of a Moses Corbett aged 0 in 1892 in the same parish. So presumably a neo-natal child, and given the name, presumably close to the family. Did he have a son living there perhaps?

The trees also have Mary Corbett (nee Hill) as dying in 1871 in Motherwell (one notes a burial on 16th January 1871). I don’t see a death that matches that in the Scotlandspeople records. There are about 7 Mary Corbett deaths around that time in Lanarkshire but none with the maiden name Hill, and none in 1871.