Person: Wilhelm CORKUM

Birthday: 29 August 1741
Birthplace: Westhofen, Rhine Palatine, GERMANY
Mother: Sophia Catharina (Catherine) SPEISS
Father: Johann Wilhelm CORKUM (VON GORKUM)
Sex: male

Birth year is approximate

(first marriage) He was married to Anna Maria Elizabeth HEISON on 25 Nov 1766 in St. John's Anglican, Lunenburg,
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, CANADA. Children were: George (John) Henry CORKUM.

He was married to *Anna Catherina Elizabeth REINHARDT* on 30 May 1775 in Dutch Reformed Church,
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Children and grandchildren:

1 John Philip Corkum, m. Mary Elizabeth Leslie, 4 December 1814, m. Sophia
Catherine (twin) Speidel, 1831/42; 8 grandchildren

2 William Corkum (5), b. 10 April 1776, d. 30 June 1776

3 Johanna Catherine Corkum, b. 2 October 1777, m. George Henry Hahn, 1
November 1796; 1 grandchild

4 Sophia Catherine Corkum, b. 24 October 1779, m. Valentine Schaufelburg, 11
December 1801, d. bef. 1803

5 Anna Elizabeth Corkum (2), b. 4 January 1781, d. 18 February 1781

6 Anna Gertrude Corkum, b. 1 February 1783, m. John Philip Cook, 2 May 1802; 4
grandchildren

7 William Corkum (6), b. 25 September 1784, m. Johanna (Hannah) Catherine
Schluter, 17 December 1805, d. ca. 1850; 10 grandchildren

8 Johannes Corkum (3), b. 26 May 1786, m. Catherine Margaret Hahn, 24 November
1813, d. 1 May 1874; 7 grandchildren

9 2. Peter Corkum, b. 18 August 1788, m. Sophia Hubley, 25 March 1812, d. 1870; 17
grandchildren

10 Maria Elizabeth Corkum, b. 25 February 1790, m. Alexander Hubley (3), 13 March
1811; 11 grandchildren

11 John Nicholas Corkum, b. 18 November 1792, m. Hannah (Johanna)
Sawler (Zeller), 8 November 1814, d. 1881; 7 grandchildren

12 Barbara Corkum (4), b. 28 May 1794, d. 7 June 1794

13 John Gottlieb Caleb Corkum, b. 24 May 1796, m. Eva Catharine Schluter, 27
December 1819, m. Anna Margaret Brown, 4 February 1830, d. 16 April 1859; 12
grandchildren

14 John Christopher Corkum, b. 8 February 1798, m. Catherina Sawler, 20 May 1820,
d. 1842; 3 grandchildren


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