An English Family History
Colin's ancestors
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Canadian Cornabys

Henry and Celia Cornaby had six children, including a daughter, Hannah, who was born in 1848. She married a local Bungay man, Benjamin Pipe, and they had 10 children in that area during the 1870s and 80s. One of those children, a daughter also named Hannah, was a ladies maid in the house of Lord and Lady Chichester. The following is taken from a book, "Preserving the Past" ...A history of some towns in Saskatchewan... printed in November 1978 by the Maidstone Mirror. It states:

"Charles Chichester... a well educated man was the son of the Lord and Lady Chichester of England. Class distinction was very prevalent in England at the time of his marriage to Hannah, who was a "ladies maid" in his parent's home. Due to his parents disapproval of his marriage, Charles was sent to Canada as a 'remittance man'".

Charles and Hannah arrived in Canada in the spring of 1905, travelled to the end of the railway at Battleford and then went by oxen and wagon 60 miles to where they homesteaded. Charles died on 17 May 1912. Hannah remarried and became Mrs. Worman. She moved to Kelowna, British Columbia in the early 1920s.

Hannah had a sister, Eliza Pipe, who was born 30 September 1870. She married a Patrick Joseph Mahoney, from Dublin, Ireland. They also emigrated to Canada, and their first born, Joseph Patrick Mahoney was born in Montreal, Canada on 1 November 1905. There were two other children born. At the birth of Eileen on 28 January 1913, Hannah picked up the three children because of Eliza's condition. Then, in October 1917, Eliza died from progressive muscular atrophy.

We have been in touch with a descendant of one of these children, Mike Frost, who still lives in British Columbia.