CORBETT's in Shropshire

[nice2know]

  Hi trish1120,
thanks for all your info regarding Thomas and Harriet on the "Storm Cloud" 

I'll do some more research

cheers
 

[trish1120]

OK, I made a mistake

The "Storm Queen" arrived 1861.
So who was Ernest, a Brother of Thomas?
Or the young Son listed separately?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/stormcloud1861.htm

[trish1120]

Re your PM Brett informing me of a second Marriage of Thomas confirming Parents a Thomas Corbett and Mary Freeman, here is the Marriage;
(you may already have this but others in the future may not)

1827   Upper Sapey, Hereford, England
Thomas CORBETT to Mary FREEMAN
(Source Familysearch.Org)

[davidryves]

I don't know how old this post is, but here's an answer:

There are many records on trees online - but all those that I have seen have picked the wrong Thomas Corbett as the emigre!

I have a DNA match with a NZ 'Corbett' (my mother was a Corbett) - both I and the lady in NZ are descended from John Corbett (b. c. 1801 Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire) and Esther Evans (b. c. 1797 Worcestershire) my 3x great grandparents. John & Esther had 5 children including Thomas Corbett (b. 1821 bapt. 20 Aug 1821, Clifton on Teme, Worcestershire). It was this Thomas who married Harriet Middleton at Tenbury in 1855 and later emigrated to NZ.

This branch of the Corbett family were originally from Worcestershire (the John Corbett above's parents were John Corbett and Ann Purvey, this earlier John's parents were Thomas Corbett and Elizabeth Griffin). From Worcestershire, the family moved first to Wiltshire (via a brief stint in County Durham - my great-grandfather had his first headmastership in Barnard Castle) and then generally scattered - there are descendants of the family in Canada (BC) as well as in NZ.

Hope this helps.