Birth: 4 December 1852 Wantage, Berkshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Elizabeth Shilton [Payne] 1833-1909
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1875 Wantage, Berkshire, UK
Husband: Henry Corp 1848-1896
Death: October-December 1939 Andover, Hampshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Edith Anne Shilton (Payne) [Waite] 1870-a1939
By Henry
Kate Emma Corp 1876-1962
Mary Elizabeth Corp [Fullick] 1878-1950
Arthur John Corp 1879-1914
Harry Corp 1884-1970
William Corp 1886-a1901
Florence Corp 1888-a1911
Edward James Corp 1893-1926
Birth of Sophia Shilton in FreeBMD in January-March 1853 in Wantage (2c 292).
In the 1861 census as Sophia Chilton (sic - on the original) aged 8, born in Wantage, Berkshire, and living with her mother (Elizabeth Payne), father-in-law (sic - on the original, should be stepfather), (half)brother (James), and two (half)sisters (Jane and Sarah) in Foundary Street, Wantage, Berkshire.
Her daughter was born in Wantage in 1870, father unknown.
In the 1871 census as Sophia Payne aged 18, born in Wantage, Berkshire, single, a domestic servant out of employment, and living with her mother (Elizabeth), daughter (Edith Anne), (step)father (Edwin) and (half)brother (Jabez) and two (half)sisters (Kat Emma and Kephizeba) in Grove Street, Wantage, Berkshire.
Marriage of Sophia Payne and Henry Corp in FreeBMD in April-June 1875 in Wantage (2c 543).
Her two daughters were born in Wantage in 1876 and 1878 and son in Hungerford in 1879.
In the 1881 census as Sophia Corp aged 26, born in Wantage, Berkshire, and living with her husband (Henry), son (Arthur John) and three daughters (Annie Payne, Kate Emma and Mary Elizabeth) in The Back Way, Hungerford, Berkshire.
Her two sons were born in Upper Clatford in 1884 and 1885, daughter in Hungerford in 1888 and another daughter in Andover in 1891.
In the 1891 census as Sohie Coop (sic - in the index, Corp on the original) aged 35, born in Wantage, Berkshire, and living with her husband (Harry), three sons (Arthur, Harry and Willie), and three daughters (Florence, Louisa and Nellie) in Clatford Street East, Uopper Clatford, Hampshire.
Her son was born in Upper Clatford in 1893 and her husband died in Andover in 1896.
In the 1901 census as Sophia Corp aged 46, born in Wantage, Berkshire, widowed, a thrasing machine and tent owner and employer, and living with her four sons (Arthur, Edward, Harry, and William), five daughters (Kate, Lily, Louisa, Mary and Nellie) and a boarder (Wallace West aged 26, born in Chitchurch, Sussex, single and an engineer fitter) in Upper Clatford, Hampshire.
In the 1911 census as Sophia Corp aged 56, born in Wantage, Berkshire, married for 36 years with 9 children all living, widowed, an agricultural machinest and tent proprietor and an employer working at home, and living with her two sons (Arthur and Edward), and two daughters (Florence and Nellie) in six rooms Upper Clatford, Andover, Hampshire
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Sophia Corp born 4 December 1853 (sic - on the original), widowed, incapacitated, and living with Kate E Corp (daughter?) at Village Street, Andover, Hampshire.
Death of Sophia Corp in FreeBMD in October-December 1939 aged 86 in Andover (2c 608).
There are twentyfour entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Sophia Paine.
Sophia Shilton was the mother of Mary Elizabeth Corp, wife of Edwin Fullick, my second cousin twice removed.
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