The whole story quickly is that my 3 x great grandfather William Henry Baldwin was baptised in St Giles in the Field, London, 1829 to Corles and Esther Baldwin. I have 1841 census for them and 1851 for Esther and William showing that she was Irish. Death certificate for Corles 1847, aged 56 years. I have seen on LDS website a marriage for a Corles Baldwin and Esther Young, Cork 1810.
Corles/Corlis/Corless are various spellings I have seen.
That was where I was at until yesterday when playing around on the LDS records site I found a marriage for a Henry Baldwin born 1812, Ireland to Hannah Darby in Preston, Lancs, his father - Corlis Baldwin. This can't be a coincidence as it is such an unusual name.
My William appears to be a late baby, Esther was born, according to death cert and census, in 1786 so would have been about 43 when he was born. My guess is that they came over from Ireland sometime in the 1820s and as I have found no other children born in this country other children would have been born in Ireland before they left.
The only other reference to Corles I found was the child of Thomas Baldwin, he died aged 3 and lived in the London area also. Thomas was also born in Ireland and though I have not been able to prove it, I think with a child called Corles, I wonder if he was another child of Corles and Esther born 1815. Other clue is that Corlis was a shoemaker and Thomas, a bootmaker. He later emigrated to America.
Kerry
