Conum

[Clannessie]

Has anyone ever run across this name or something spelled close to it?

Even though it is probably English...just wondered if anyone as ever seen the name in a record.

I have a Martha Conum married to a Benjamin Murdock. Benjamin was born about 1796 in Nova Scotia. For some reason marries in England..maybe he was with the Royal Navy at that point? I have found two sons a James, 1825, and John, 1827, in a 1950 New York census as ship carpenters, both born in England. Later John has a farm in eastern Michigan along side his father, Benjamin Murdock. By the 1860 Michigan census they are on the west side of Michigan as farmers.Seems James stayed in New York. I have also found a daughter, Jane, 1833 London, who seems to have gone back to Nova Scotia and marries there, dies in Washington.

I know they are not "Scottish", if I have the correct parents for Benjamin, they and the grandparents came from Ireland to Nova Scotia. It is said they had been in Ireland from Scotland for a century by the time of some of the uprisings.

Guess I'm just curious if anyone has run across the name....

thanks,
Karen
California

[joette]

Sounds like Corum? Thomas Corum was the founder of the Childrens Foundling Hospital in London.He was appalled by the number of babies corpes he came across in the streets & thought that Mothers should have a place they could deposit their babies safely.Many were left with identifying items on them which I am sure were left to enable the Mothers to perhaps reclaim their child when things got better.It would melt a heart of steel to view these little items!
I have never come across the name before although I think there was a Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police called Conrum.
Names were not standardised in spelling/pronounciation until well into the 19th Century.

[Clannessie]

Figured someone here could help me out as per ususal!

I have at least found more records to look at with the Corum spelling and am also looking at a Coram....

Thanks again for the useful info

Karen