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George CORBEN (1806 - 1891)

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Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Isaac CORBEN (1825 - 1891) Ruben CORBEN (1833 - 1897)	George CORBEN (1806 - 1891) + Susannah Smith BOWER (1803 - 1880)

b. abt 1806 at Worth Matravers, Dorset, England

+. Susannah Smith BOWER (1803 - 1880)

d. 1891 at Worth Matravers, Dorset, England aged 85

Near Relatives of George CORBEN (1806 - 1891)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	George CORBEN	abt 1806	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	1891	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	85
Spouse/Partner	Susannah Smith BOWER	1803	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	1880	Lambeth, London, England	77
Son	Isaac CORBEN	abt 1825		1891	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	66
Son	Ruben CORBEN	1833	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	1897	Victoria, Australia	64
Daughter in Law	Elizabeth SMITH	abt 1830		1891	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	61
Daughter in Law	Sarah BENFIELD	1833		1885	Victoria, Australia	52
Grandson	Walter Smith CORBEN	1849	Greenwich, London, England	1908	Prahan, Victoria, Australia	59
Granddaughter	Clara (eldest dau) CORBEN	1851	Croyden, Surrey, England	1924	Essendon, Victoria, Australia	73
Grandson	Hugh Sparkes CORBEN	1853		1854	London	1
Grandson	Hugh Sparkes CORBEN	1855	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1855	Victoria, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Catherine (Kate) CORBEN	1857	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1897	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	40
Granddaughter	Alice CORBEN	1858	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1887	Essendon, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	29
Grandson	Leigh Mountfield CORBEN	1860	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1862	Victoria, Australia	2
Granddaughter	Rosa CORBEN	1862	Kensington Hill, Victoria, Australia	1862	Victoria, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Elizabeth CORBEN	1864	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1947	Victoria, Australia	83
Granddaughter	Ada Florence CORBEN	1865	Melbourne.	1900	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	35
Grandson	Willie CORBEN	1869	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1869	Victoria, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Lily CORBEN	1871	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1871	Victoria, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Rose CORBEN	1871	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1943	North Sydney, NSW, Australia	72
Grandson	Isaac Ernest CORBEN	1872	Hotham, Victoria, Australia	1885	Eganstown, Victoria, Australi	13
Granddaughter	Marian Lima CORBEN	1875	Victoria, Australia	1876		1
Grandson	Albert CORBEN	abt 1854
Grandson	George CORBEN	abt 1856
Grandson	Hubert Bower CORBEN	1857		1907		50

Events in George CORBEN (1806 - 1891)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1806		George CORBEN was born	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	Ancestry tree
abt 1825	19	Birth of son Isaac CORBEN		Died 1891 - age 66 years
1833	27	Birth of son Ruben CORBEN	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	Ancestry tree
1880	74	Death of wife Susannah Smith BOWER (aged 77)	Lambeth, London, England	Ancestry tree
1891	85	George CORBEN died	Worth Matravers, Dorset, England	Ancestry tree
1891	85	Death of son Isaac CORBEN (aged 66)	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Note 1	60

Note 1: Burial info The Herald (Melbourne) 29 Aug 1891 DEATHS. CORBEN.— On the 29th inst., at "Eden," Brougham street, North Melbourne, Isaac Corben (of the firm of Wilton, Corben and Co.), aged 67 years. Table Talk (Melbourne) 2 Oct 1891 Wills and Bequests. ISAAC Corben, of Brougham-street, Hotham North Melbourne, stone and marble merchant, will dated June 11, 1888, ……… He bequeathed to his wife Eliz- abeth Corben all his household furniture and effects £250 to be paid to her within one month of his death, and to his father, George Corben of 4 Road, South Lambeth, London an annuity The balance of his estate he directed to the sole discretion of his trustees, the proceeds invested income paid to his wife during her life subject obligation of maintaining and educating daughters, Ada Florence and Rose while unmarried He also directed that his dwelling house in Brougham street, aforesaid, and cottage in Venice Mentone, shall not be sold in his wife's time without her consent, and that she be allowed to occupy same, rent free his wife's death he directed his trustees to possessed of his residuary estate, and pay there his granddaughter, Olivia Pascoe Polglaise, after marriage £500; to his grandson, Walter H Smith Polglaise, at 25, £500, and to divide the into a number of equal shares, such number daughter Ada Florence be then living to greater than the number of all his children who be living at his wife's death, or being dead have issue then living, and if the said Ada Florence

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