Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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George A. Cobham and Catherine Curry




Husband George A. Cobham 1 2

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         Father: Elijah Cobham (      -1811) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Hargreaves (      -      ) 1 4


       Marriage: Oct 1828 2



Wife Catherine Curry 1 2

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         Father: John Gilmore Curry, M.D. (      -      ) 1 2
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   Other Spouse: Henry Cobham (1795-1825) 1 4 - 30 Oct 1822 1 2


Children

General Notes: Husband - George A. Cobham


At the time of his marriage he was a lawyer, residing in Liverpool, England. In order to facilitate the marriage, Miss Alice Cobham (his aunt) surrendered to him the Newchurch, Fearns, and Tunstead estates, shortly before the event. Soon after this second marriage, Miss Alice Cobham died in the year 1829, at the advanced age of ninety-two; leaving by her will to Mrs. Cobham's two young children her interest in the house in Anne Street and her personal estate of about four thousand pounds; the property in Anne Street being subject to the use of George and Catherine Cobham during their lives. About the year 1829 George Cobham with his wife and step-children went to reside at Fearns Hall on the Fearns estate, and soon contracted debts to a large amount which he was unable to pay. His creditors levied on and sold his personal property; he was arrested for debt and committed to Lancaster Castle, where he remained until released as a bankrupt by order of court, after making an assignment of his estates in favor of his creditors. Proceedings were then commenced in the Ecclesiastical court to render his marriage invalid, he having married his brother's widow; discovering this he fled to France in order to avoid the service of the writ. His wife soon joined him and they resided in that country until the autumn of 1834, when they came to America and settled in what was then Elk township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, their residence being styled Cobham Park. George Cobham's two stepsons were reared as his own children which indeed they believed themselves to be until the eldest came of age and was appraised otherwise; there were three daughters born of the second marriage, and the household became a very unhappy one, owing to property difficulties and complications.


General Notes: Wife - Catherine Curry


After the death of her husband, she then resided with her late husband's aunt, Miss Alice Cobham, at No. 16 St. Anne Street, Liverpool, where her youngest child was born. Miss Alice Cobham at this time owned a seven-eighths interest in the house in which she lived, the remaining one-eighth having belonged to her deceased nephew, Henry Cobham, and reverting to his heir. She also owned the Newchurch estates the Brex, Edge Lane, Elton Meadow, and other properties, besides the Fearns and Tunstead estates,-to all of which her nephew's eldest son was heir-at-law.

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Sources


1 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 228.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 552.

3 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 227.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 551.


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