Laura Corin Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) It turns out that someone has done a lot of research into the Corins (Corin is not my surname, but that of some ancestors). It looks as if my Great Great Great Grandmother was the Great Aunt of the Bronte sisters - she was the sister of Thomas Branwell who was the father of Maria Bronte. There are tons of Corins (it's a very Cornish name with it's own origin story - Aeneas and everything, with Cornwall named for 'Corin's Wall') so there are also scads of people who have a similar relationship to the Brontes. Fun though and nice for my 92yo mother who wrote a lot in her youth but is coping with failing memory these days. Edited January 22, 2017 by Laura Corin 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 How fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 How Marvellous! I like that kind of history :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Neat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 What an awesome connection! I'm doing family history work and I find it utterly fascinating. I want to see how far my maternal grandmother's line goes back in southern Maryland because I have already determined that those English-origin ancestors were there for a long time (I have gotten back to the 1740's). There are graves in the St. Mary's cemetary at Point Lookout that include that surname - Robinson - and I'm curious if that is the same ancestral line and would continue back to original English settlers from the 1600's. I have already traced part of my father's ancestry back to imigration from Ireland in the 1840's; most probably they immigrated due to the potato blight. I find it all very fascinating. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 very cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Delightful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Very cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 That is so cool! I remember finding out maybe 10 years ago, that some relative was involved with the founding of Harvard. I was like, "Man, you guys (my Dad and his elder brother) should have told me this back when I was applying for college. I totally would have gone for the alumni link. LOL" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Very neat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Don't you just love that? I was never so interested in some phases of history until I realized we had some ancestral connections. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
importswim Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 That's really neat. I'm originally from Harrogate so have visited the Bronte parsonage a couple of times. Very cool that you are related to them! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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