Bagpiper began and concluded the dedication ceremony at the Corrie family reunion. | 
Group of Corrie
relatives at the gravesites of William, Margaret, John and Mary Agnes Corrie. 31 Aug 1995 |
1.1.5.3. ADAM, baptized 2 Jun 1770 in Irongray; went to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and joined the
business of his uncle William whose heir he became upon the death of William's daughter Jane, before which
Adam had already become wealthy as a merchant, lace manufacturer, and landowner, in Wellingborough, in
Wilby, and in London and Windsor, Berkshire; in "Album of the Northampton Congregational Churches"
edited by T. Stephens, published 1894 in Wellingborough, Adam is described as founder of two institutions
viz. the Salem Church in Wellingborough and the first Sunday School in Northamptonshire. The Corries had
long been members of the Cheese Lane Church but Adam came out in 1812 as a protest against the
introduction in 1811 of an organ into the public services. In 1818, fearing the prospect of a French-style
revolution in Britain, he sent his son John to America to seek an alternative living and he returned
having purchased on Adam's behalf 10,000 acres of land in Illinois @ 2/- an acre. Adam presented about 200
acres to each of his brothers William,
John, and Robert, and financed their emigration and settlement, but
did not himself emigrate, his confidence in Britain having been restored. He died 12 Oct 1846 aged 75 in
Wellingborough, buried Salem Church precinct; married 19 Nov 1792 in St. Peters, Cornhill, London, to
Penelope Chester Bailey, born 1771 in Padbury, Buckinghamshire, daughter of John Bailey, died 12 Nov
1852 aged 81, buried with husband under stone in Salem Church (now Salem Hall used for welfare services)
precinct; they had thirteen children also two unnamed infants buried in the precinct (
1) Peggy, (
2) John,
(
3) William, (
4) Peggy, (
5) Adam, (
6) Mary, (
7) Penelope, (
8) Sarah, (
9) Sarah, (
10) Matilda,
(
11) Caroline, (
12) James Robert, (
13) Maria, and two unnamed infants buried Salem Chapel (
14) Infant A,
(
15) Infant B.
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1.1.5.4. JOHN, born 1772, baptized 26 Sep 1779 in Kirkpatrick-Irongray; farmer in High Banks, Kirkcudbright,
until 1793; emigrated in 1819 via Liverpool to Philadelphia, Pen., U.S.A., thence to Pittsburg, and then
came on to settle in a place he called Corrieville (now Orio or sometimes Linn) in section 30, township 2,
in range 12 of Deckers Prairie, Ill. At first there was great disappointment and hardship, not only was
his land of poor productivity but the first summer grain crop was lost while rafting it down the
Mississippi river to New Orleans, moreover the winter proved more severe than expected; with further
financial help from brother Adam the family recovered and prospered but John's death due to heart failure
on 16 May 1823 was a heavy blow. John married 5 May 1796 in Borgue Mary Agnes (Nancy) Dickson, school
teacher in the 1820s in Lawrence and Wabash Counties d. 1841. They had seven children (
1) Thomas,
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