Publications
Two Corney families of Sussex, by Val Stuart, published September 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 7, article, pp.347-353) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508974] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Bear with me. We will arrive in Sussex shortly. This is a brief history of my branch of the CORNEY family, starting from my point of total ignorance in 2003. I knew nothing beyond my great-grandfather William CORNEY whose two wives had 17 children between them. There had been a ship's captain in the family, somewhere.
Beyond Thomas, by Val Stuart, published December 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 8, article, pp.419-420) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508993] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:So, following on from my exposition in the last issue, we were looking for George CORNEY who witnessed Thomas's will in 1728, John CORNEY of Angmering born c.1715, and James CORNEY, the cordwainer, born 1704. These three were brothers, and nephews of our Thomas born 1665, but we had some research to do before we could establish that.
A preliminary search of the IGI pointed to the Isle of Wight as the possible origin of these three, however we couldn't draw any conclusions from our three random CORNEYs fitting an IGI profile.
We enlisted the help of Kevin Convey who has probably the best researched Isle of Wight CORNEY family on the web, as every record on his tree has come from the IOW Record Office. Kevin had James CORNEY born c.1634 as the founding father of the Isle of Wight family. We took a punt on this James CORNEY's will, and everything started to fall into place (isn't it nice when that happens!).
A preliminary search of the IGI pointed to the Isle of Wight as the possible origin of these three, however we couldn't draw any conclusions from our three random CORNEYs fitting an IGI profile.
We enlisted the help of Kevin Convey who has probably the best researched Isle of Wight CORNEY family on the web, as every record on his tree has come from the IOW Record Office. Kevin had James CORNEY born c.1634 as the founding father of the Isle of Wight family. We took a punt on this James CORNEY's will, and everything started to fall into place (isn't it nice when that happens!).