Corbett Family History and Genealogy Sources

Sources for the history and genealogy of the Corbett family, descendants of Obediah Corbett of England who came to Akron, Ohio late in the nineteenth century

Corbett Sources

England, General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage, Application Number 3563922-1; 1866 Marriage solemnized at the parish church in the parish of St. Martin Birmingham in the county of Warwick.; Database of Ronald N. Wall.

Lesley Parkes, Peter Wilson Family Tree (Provo, UT, Member Public Family Tree), Ancestry.com, [database on-line] Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

Philip Nigel Bailey, (England, nigelbailey@btinternet.com, October, 2011) Corbett Family Research, Email and Notes From Nigel Bailey of England; English census records 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871; Database of Ronald N. Wall.

Evans Family Tree (Member Public Family Tree), Ancestry.com, [database on-line] Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

Jenkins Family Tree (Member Public Family Tree), David Jenkins, Ancestry.com, [database on-line] Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

Register of Births, West Bromwich, Stafford County, England, Arthur Corbett, 8 Sept. 1874, no. 465.

1920 Census, Arkon, Summit County, Ohio (January 14 & 15, 1920), ED 181, Sheet 31B, pg.

1900 Census, Ashland County, Ohio, Ruggles Township SD 14, ED 1, Sheet 14, Line 41, 43; household of Thomas Andrews, (wife Sade), father-in-law James Corbett listed in the household.

1900 Census, Ohio, Trumbell County, Warren Twp., Warren City Ward 4, ED 123, Sheet 15A; household of John and Elizabeth "Corbitt" and daughter Mary.

1900 Census, Summit County, Ohio, SD 16, ED 76, Sheet 11, Precinct A, Ward 6, Akron, Ohio, House No. 105, Cleveland Street. Listed with wife Clara in the household of father-in-law Charles Fridinger.

1900 Census, Lewis Co., West Virginia, ED60, Sheet 15, Lewis Co., Court House Dist., June 1900; household of Nathaniel Westfall, lists daughter Osa.

1881 England Census (Ancestry.Com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.), West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England; Database of Ronald N. Wall.

1871 England Census (Ancestry.Com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.), Staffordshire, West Bromwich, Dist 1, pg. 33/20; Database of Ronald N. Wall

1861 England Census (Ancestry.Com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.), Essex, West Ham Dist. 15, pg. 44; Database of Ronald N. Wall.

1851 Census, England (Ancestry.Com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.), Database of Ronald N. Wall, Middlesex, Popular District, (London) England pg. 15.

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Philip John Nigel Bailey, 12 Descendants of James Corbett: (October 5, 2011), Family Charts.

Mrs. Jean Noble, Corbett Study Group, Corwall, United Kingdom.

Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Certificate of Death, James Corbett, Summit County Registration District No. 1224 File No. 5800, Jan. 13, 1921.

Sadie M. Andrews, Letter of Sadie M. Andrews (Venice California, November 28, 1947) to Clara (Corbett) Wall; Papers of Ronald N. Wall.

Affidavit to the birth of Arthur Corbett Sr. By his Brother John Lawrence Corbett, State of California, County of Los Angeles, Notary Jack Dardis. Signature of John L. Crobett notarized 31 October, 1950.

Arkansas State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Death certificate of Arthur Edmond Corbett, 69 014954, Sebastian Co., Arkansas, Oct. 7, 1969; informant for Arthur E. Corbett: Mrs. Clara Donath, daughter of Arthur E. Corbett. (Database of Ronald N. Wall).

Arkansas State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death Arthur Corbett, Informant Arthur E.
Corbett; State File 12131, Crawford Co., Arkansas; recorded Nov. 17, 1955, Certified copy obtained Sep. 19, 1978, certified by Henry C. Robinson, Jr., State Registrar (Database of Ronald N. Wall).

State of Ohio, Summit County Record of Marriage, Arthur Corbett and Clara May Fridinger, Nathan Koplin, Judge; Volume 10, Page 353, 31 October 1898. Certified copy, 11 October 1978.

Affidavit to the birth of Arthur E. Corbett, sworn to by Ethel B. King and Daisy Brown, Notarized by William F. Carrol Jr., 11 May 1963, Arkon, Ohio. The affidavit states that the original birth certificate was destroyed in a fire at the Summit Co., court house in 1908.

Maryland, Allegany County, Certificate of Marriage, Arthur E. Corbett and Osa Westfall, by Rev. J.W. Balderston, Cumberland, Md., 12 September 1919; Certified by Joseph E. Bodon, County Clerk, Allegany Co., Maryland, 22 March 1960.

50th Wedding Anniversary, Arthur and Osa Corbett, Crawford County Courier, Van Buren, Arkansas, Date of publication is unknown, probably shortly before September 12, 1969.

Obituary of Arthur E. Corbett, Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, September 21, 1969.

Cemetery headstones, Helen and Clarence Dee Howard, Gill Cemetery, Van Buren, Crawford Co., Arkansas.

Obituary, Helen Howard, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith Arkansas, October 22, 1989.

Lewis Co., W.VA. Birth Record, No. 2, page 183; Affidavit to the birth of Osa B. Westfall in Lewis Co., W.Va., given by sister Nina J. Westfall, 6 March 1961.

Funeral Home Obituary, Osa Corbett, Ocker Funeral Home, Van Buren, Arkansas, July 18, 1992 (date of death 15 July 1992).

Obituary, Osa Corbett, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith Arkansas, Probably about July 16-17, 1992.

Wedding Anniversary, Dorothy and Cletus Stockton, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith Arkansas, April 15, 1990.

Marriage of LeRoy and Elinor (Corbett) Stockton, Family Knowledge of the Elinor Stockton Family (Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, 2009), Database of Ronald N. Wall.

Death of James Arthur Corbett, 07 Oct. 2010, Knowledge of the Corbett, Dinwiddie and Wall Families (October 2010).

Akron Beacon Journal, Vol 4, no. 5, Dec. 1945. 50th wedding anniversary announcement of Reason Deforest and Winnifred (Tyler) Wall; names their children.

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