Charles Corkran
(1801-1885)
22 February 1861

Volume 2, page 230, sitting number 2209.

Charles Corkran was born at Bombay in or about 1801. On 22 July 1844 at Long Ditton in Surrey he married Georgiana Isabella Seymour, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour. She gave him two sons, Charles Seymour Corkran and Lewis Henry Seymour, then died on 4 December 1848. He never remarried. 

At the time of the 1851 census, he gave his profession as 'Funderholder.' In 1861 he described himself as 'Retired Officer (Army) and J.P. for Co. of Surrey' and in 1881 as 'Land Owner and J.P.'

He died on 9 September 1885 and was laid to rest in the family vault at Long Ditton. He left an estate valued at £98,500.

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]

The Corkrans were the next-door neighbours of the Veseys in Long Ditton.