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1. Nicholas Cornish 1832-1892, NE's father
      
   
   Huntsman & Game Keeper
   b.c1832 St Davids, Exeter, Devon
   d.4 Apr 1892 Portgate, Northumberland
   
   It is here with this Nicholas Cornish that the family connection becomes a bit fuzzy, as his true parentage has not been determined.  Records indicate that he was born in Exeter and brought up in the household of Nicholas Cornish and his sister Sarah at Pullerton, in the parish of Newton St Cyres.  In the 1851 census return he is referred to as nephew of Nicholas of Newton St Cyres, and by time the said Nicholas writes his Will in 1857 he has become his son.  There is not the slightest doubt that the elder Nicholas ever married – this is implied in the 1841 census and stated clearly in the 1851 census.  Hence,  Nicholas Junior must have been an illegitimate son or somebody he was happy to declare to be his son for inheritance purposes.  In 1861 Nicholas was living in Bidwell Barton,  Newton St Cyres, where he was a Farmer of 155 acres.  In 1863 he was declared bankrupt – his great granddaughter (Joyce Clandillon) has a desk which was owned by him and which he hid in a shed before the bailiffs came and took everything.  Also saved from the sale was a silver coffee pot which is now in the possession of our family.  Nicholas eventually moved to Lincolnshire and then to Northumberland where the family settled in Portland, a small hamlet near St John Lee.  In 1871 and 1881 the family lived at Fences and in 1901 at Stanley Cottages, where Nicholas is now described as a Game Keeper, rather than Huntsman. -- Barbara Tunley
   
   I saw that Sue Taylor and the Tunley's have been searching and posting about our Great-great-grandfather Nicholas Cornish (b:1833) since at least 2000. Many interesting details,  (like he was a ship owner, and that he went bankrupt because his partner ran off with the money) that I hadn't heard of before were included in various postings. -- Al Fei
   
   From Ancestry.com Wills and Probate: CORNISH Nicholas of Stanley Cottages Portgate Northumberland died 4 April 1892. Probate Newcastle-Upon Tyne 6 July to Joseph Cornish and William Walter Cornish bank clerk Effects £1180
   
   
2. Anne Frost 1837-1914, NE's mother
      
   bp. 12 Mar 1837 Topsham d. 1914 Hexham, Northumberland  m.13 Aug 1857 Christ Church, Exeter, Nicholas CORNISH, 1832-1892
   
   

3. Nicholas Edward (N. E.) Cornish 1858-1947, civil engineer, England and China
   
   bp.24 Oct 1857 Newton St.Cyres  d. 19 Feb 1949 Tenbury (Will); at one time worked at Woolwich Kent and Shanghai, China Arsenals  m. 1878 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, (1) Annie NICHOLSON, d. 13 Apr 1924 Newcastle (Will)  m. 1924 Paddington (2) Florence MARSHALL -- Barbara Tunley
   
   NE lived with Edward's family from about 1943 until he died in 1949. This was in Tenbury Wells. Edward's father was NE's nephew. NE's daughter also lived in Tenbury then and hopefully they saw each other regularly. I am coming to the conclusion that although NE and Annie Nicholson didn't divorce I think they may have separated as they were obviously apart for long periods of time. NE also married Florrie the same year that Annie died and I have several letters from 1914-16 adressed to NE when he was living in London and not in Northumberland with his family. I may be jumping to all the wrong conclusions!! -- Janet Greenwell
   
   
4. Joseph Cornish 1859-1948
   
   
5. Walter Cornish 1861-1925
   
   
6. Annie Cornish 1863-?
   
   
7. Mary Eliza Cornish 1865-1952
   
   
8. John Henry Cornish 1868-1941
   
   
9. Laura Cornish 1870-1931
   
   
10. Bessie Eliza Cornish 1874-1875
    
    
11. Lucy Cornish 1876-?
    
    
12. Nellie Cornish 1879-?
     
       Cornish sisters
    
    
13. Annie Elizabeth Bell Nicholson Cornish, 1850-1924
    From Ancestry.com Wills and Probate: CORNISH Annie of 3 Crown Street Newcastle-Upon -Tyne (Wife of Nicholas Edward Cornish) died 13 April 1924. Probate Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 12 June to George Thomas Nicholson draughtsman  and Annie Cornish spinster. Effects £2577 14s 5d.
    
    [She left everything to her son from her first marriage and her daughter with N. E. Cornish, nothing to N. E. himself]
    
    Born Annie Elizabeth Bell in 1850, she married a George Nicholson in 1867, and had a son, George Thomas Nicholson, in 1869. In 1878, she married Nicholas Edward Cornish (when he was 21 and she was 28, and her son George was 9). She had a daughter, Annie Cornish, in 1880. http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Bell-Descendants-5210
    
    
14. LingLing Tai
    
    
15. unknown name, perhaps the grandmother mentioned in book by Chi-Yun Fei Eskelund
    
    
16. Annie Cornish 1880-?, daughter of N. E. Cornish and Annie Elizabeth Bell Nicholson Cornish; second wife of Wilson Faithfull
    
    Annie Cornish was the daughter of NE Cornish and Annie Nicholson, born before NE left for China. Annie's aunt Laura Cornish (NE's younger sister) married Wilson Faithfull in 1899, when Laura was 29. Laura died in 1931 at the age of 61. In 1934, Wilson married Annie, his late wife's niece, age 54.
    
    From Simon Faithfull: "I remember Annie well, and I certainly remember have once had pictures of her - I also have an 8 mm cine film somewhere, in which she was sitting with me in 1965 in my MGA!  Maybe I will come across that one day, but I have no idea where it is!  I remember how amazed I was to see a marked resemblance between her and Elizabeth Cornish Fei, when I saw her photo ." (photo above courtesy of Simon)
    
    
17. Elizabeth Tse-Vong Cornish 康彩鳳  康彩蓉 1890-1986 Charity organizer, Peking; retired, California/China photos
    
    Grandma was born on March 18, 1890 in Shanghai, China to Mr. N. E. Cornish and his Chinese wife. Elizabeth's mother died very young and Elizabeth was raised by Chinese relatives, the Hsu (Suvoong) family. She only met her father once.
    
    Elizabeth went to Oberlin University, Chicago, Illinois in 1907, possibly paid for by her father. She remembered seeing Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown. At Oberlin she met her husband Jack Fei and they were married in Chicago. Elizabeth majored in kindergarten normal. I remember she sang the kindergarten songs she had learned in preparation to be a teacher, but she never taught in a school.
    
    She and her husband moved back to China and settled in Beijing. They had 7 children and lived near Deng Shr Kou (Lantern Cross Corner) in old Beijing. Elizabeth raised 7 children with the help of servants and had all her daughters take piano lessons and the older children enrolled in Peking American School. The older children grew up speaking fluent American English. Elizabeth's husband died in 1946.
    
    She remained in China until l961, when she moved to live with her daughter Rose and son-in-law Kou Tsun Chang in Redondo Beach, California. When I met Grandma (we called her Lao Lao), we were the exact same height. Grandma taught my younger brother Gray how to read and once polished his tennis shoes with white shoe polish. She had a pet chihuahua and loved to sew clothing, especially Chinese jackets and blouses with "frog" buttons made out of fabric.  She taught me how to sew. I remember threading needles for her. Grandma loved to sign hymns and go to church.
    
    The most famous story about her is when she walked all the way to the Redondo Beach pier, about three miles away, was too tired to walk back, and "hitched" a ride back with a young American man by waving her arms and asking for a ride. She wanted to thank him, so she invited him in for a hot dog, that being the most likely food he would appreciate. I remember she referred to hot dogs and hamburgers as foreign food.
    
    In her later years Grandma lived with her oldest son Albert in Pacific Grove, California. She also lived in the Pilgrim Haven home in Los Altos, California and with her daughter Ellen at the Binkley's ranch in Saratoga, California. She spent her last few years in Beijing in the care of her Fei relative Uncle Oberlin.
    
    Grandma was a sweet one, snipping roses from neighbor's bushes to plant as her own. I remember her frying chicken for us, yum! She taught us about being kind to others and doing the right thing. She always saved her desserts for us. What a grandma! I miss her braids up on her head and her teeny tiny feet. -- Julie Chang

Boxer Indemnity Scholars article

1907 Chinese Exclusion Act file on Elizabeth Cornish from National Archives (8MB PDF file)

Notes from Bessie Fei Lin 2018:

Born in Shanghai, Elizabeth Cornish had to have a Chinese name to start school. Kang was chosen because it sounded close to Cornish. Kang is also a proper surname in China.

Kang Tsai-Feng had to be changed to Kang Tsai-Rong when she married Fei Hsin-Jen, because his father's Chinese name was Fei Chi-Feng and she could not use the same word as the old man's.

Kang had nothing to do with the hutong Kang-Jian, meaning healthy. (hutung is the alley way)

Teng Shi-Kou (Lantern Intersection) was a big street, in Chinese it had Da-Ji. (Da Jie means big street). Nobody used it because it was well known. In recent years, the side treet of another name on the west side of T-sh-Kou because Ten Shi-Kou Xi Jie (west street) so the word Main Street had to be used.

The Fei family originally lived in #38 Teng Shi -Kou. Fei Hsin-Ren bought #37, a 3 storied building with 4 courtyards behind the building 336 was a side door connected to another courtyard.

The 3-story building was a business called Peking Craft Shop: a showroom and export for curios and Chinese carpets.

The huge stone turtle with a stone slab on its back, now standing in Harvard University, was obtained by Hsin Jen Fei, packed and shipped to Harvard. I remember horses coming into the front courtyard, pulling the packed turtle on rolling logs... train, ship...

Wikipedia article on Harvard Bixi

Below: Notes from Rose Fei Chang 2009 regarding Elizabeth Cornish Fei's name change





18. John Smith, son of N. E. Cornish and a Chinese mother
    
    
19. Hsing-Jen (Jack) Fei 費         1886-1946 Businessman, Peking
    
    
    Boxer Indemnity Scholars article
    
    Yale obituary 1949
    
    Hsing-Jen Fei's parents, Chi Fung and Hsu Chu:
    
    
    
    
20. Frances, Chinese wife of John Smith
    
    
21. Grace Smith
    
    
22. Joe Smith, died July 4, 2010
    
    
    
23. Winnie Smith
    
    
24. Albert Fei 費景云 1915-1978, Chinese language teacher, Monterey, California 
    
    
    The Fei children, c. 1929, clockwise from left: Ellen, Edward, Albert, Mary, Rose, John, and Bessie
    
    
25. Ellen Fei 費皎云 1916-2012, Nurse, China; retired, California
    
    
    
26. Edward (Eddie, Ed) Fei 費景天 1919-1976, U. S. diplomat
    
    I attended the Peking American School and knew Eddie Fei well. He was  a year ahead of me in school. I also knew Mary Fei, a lovely, gentle and quiet girl. Eddie had some connection with the manufacture of fireworks in Peking, and it was he who furnished the rest of us with fire works at times. I recall a particularly villainous package of crackers that we attached to the rear axle of the Chevy convertable driven by Mr. Hewitt, a teacher who had come out from the States. They went off like a machine gun and poor Mr. Hewitt thought he was being fired upon by Chinese revolutionaries, who were everywhere in those years. I'm afraid we were very bad boys, and may have led Eddie astray. -- Kim Krenz
    
    What a little treasure that story is!  I'd heard my father's nickname was 'the black sheep of Dun Sher Ko' for his mischievous exploits, and this confirms it.  -- Rosemary Fei
    
    
    Summer 1967: Edward Fei, Karl Eskelund, Mary Kurth (Julie's friend), Bessie Fei Lin, Julie Chang, Anne Chang Fei, Mary Fei Eskelund, Rosemary Fei, Rose Fei Chang, Mei-Mei Eskelund, Gray Chang, Kjeld Thue Tobiasen (Mei-Mei's husband), K. T. Chang, Ivy Lin
    
    
27. Mary Chi-Yun Fei 費綺云 1918-2000, Author and TV personality in Denmark
    
    From her Danish obituary (translated by Google): The author Mary Chi-Yun Eskelund Nyvig, Værløse, is dead. She was 82 years. Under the name Chi-Yun Eskelund she became known to the public when her husband, travel journalist Karl Eskelund published the book "My wife eats with sticks." She was born in Beijing, and the couple were married in 1939 at the Danish consulate in Shanghai. After the war they took residence in Denmark, but travel around the world continued. In the late 1960s was the couple divorced, and Chi-Yun Eskelund began writing, first cookbooks and later memoirs about his childhood in Beijing and a book about the relationship with Karl Eskelund, 'My Casanova'. In addition, she was assigned to the University of Copenhagen as a language teacher. Chi-Yun Eskelund was later married again with the late urban planner Anders Nyvig. Chi-Yun Eskelund was a member of the culinary academy.
    
    
28. Rose Mei-Yun Fei 費美云 1921-2016, retired school nurse, t-shirt artist, California
    
    
    
    The four Fei sisters, from left to right: Rose, Ellen, Mary, and Bessie, 1980s
    
    
    
29. John Fei 費景漢 1923-1996, economist, Yale professor
    

    John C.H. Fei, professor emeritus of economics, whose writings in the field of economic development are now considered classics, died of cardiopulmonary failure on July 19 in Taipei, Taiwan. He was 73 years old.

    Professor Fei's five books and over 70 articles influenced the economic policies of many countries. In fact, for several decades he actively advised the Taiwan government on economic policy issues. Since retiring from Yale, he had been serving as chair of the board of trustees of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research in Taipei, and shortly before his death, he was appointed as a personal advisor to the President of Taiwan. In recognition of Professor Fei's contributions to that nation, the Taiwanese government held a state funeral in his honor.

    Described as a "dynamic and lucid lecturer," Professor Fei inspired generations of students from the United States and abroad, some of whom later went on to top leadership positions in their countries. The latter include President Lee Teng-hui of the People's Republic of China and President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon of Mexico.

    Professor Fei's research centered on development theory, in general, and its application to Asian development, in particular. He is perhaps best known for the 1964 book "Development of the Labor Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy," which he coauthored with Professor Gus Ranis of Yale and which is credited with opening up new literature and debate in the development field.

    Born in Beijing, China, in 1923, Professor Fei completed his undergraduate studies at Yenching University in 1945. Soon afterward, his family emigrated to the United States, and he subsequently earned a M.A. in economics from the University of Washington in 1948 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952.

    He came to Yale in 1962 and was a noted contributor to the University's department of economics and Economic Growth Center for almost three decades. He also taught at M.I.T., Antioch College, the University of Washington and Cornell University, where he held the Carl Marks Chair in economics.

    A long-time consultant to the Agency for International Development and the National Planning Association, in 1972 Professor Fei was elected to membership of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Republic of China.

    He is survived by his wife, Alice L.H. Fei of Alexandria, Virginia; and by three sons from a previous marriage, Jack Fei of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Albert Fei of New York City, and Calvin Fei of Walnut Creek, California; and by four grandchildren.
    
    
    
    John with sisters Ellen, Rose, Bessie, and Mary; 1980s
    
    
    
    John, Albert, Edward, Anne, Rose, Elizabeth, KT, Mary; c. 1970
    
    

30. Elizabeth (Bessie) Fei 費裁云 1920s-, U. S. Counsulate worker, Hong Kong; retired, California
    
    
31. Sophia (Sophie) ShanTze He 賀善慈
    
    
32. Theodore (Teddy) Fei 費大成
    
    
33. Eddie John (E. J.) Fei 費爾成
    
    
34. Edward (Eddie) Lei 雷愛德
    
    
35. Johnny Lei 雷韶笙
    
    
36. James (Jimmy) Lei 雷韶文
    
    
37. Judy Lei 雷韶英
    
    
38. Jean Lei 雷韶蓉
    
    
39. Anne Chang 張秀愛
    
    
40. Ed (Eddie Jr.) Fei 費大川
    
    
41. Jean (Jeanie) Fei
    
    
42. Rosemary Fei, lawyer, Adler & Colvin, San Francisco
    
    
    
43. Karl Eskelund 1918-1972, Danish journalist and author, see Wikipedia article
    
    
44. Mei-Mei Eskelund 1941-1973
    
    
    
45. Kuo Tsun (K. T.) Chang 張囯駿 1920s-, retired aerospace engineer, book author, California
    
    
    
46. Timothy (Tim) Chang 張振人
    
    
    
47. Juliann (Julie) Chang 張振玫
    
    
    
48. Gray Chang 張振民 1950s-, Technical Writer, 1980s computer game designer, California
     
    
    
49. Katherine T. Sheng 盛冬嘉 1921-1997, California
    
    
50. Jack Charles Fei  1949-, Microsoft Windows Systems Engineer, Twin Cities, Minnesota
    Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfei
    Personal story: Chinese American Exclusion/Inclusion
    
    
51. Albert (Al) Fei
    
    
52. Calvin (Cal) Fei
    
    
53. Baoling Lin 林葆齡
    
    
54. Ivy Lin 林曉寒
    
    
55. Victor Lin
    
    
56. Leo Lin
    
    
57. Ruth Qin 秦玉池
    
    
58. Edward Lei 雷紅楓
    
    
59. Esther Chen 陳珊珊
    
    
60. Edith Lei
    
    
61. Zhenyu Hou 侯振宇
    
    
62. Renee Hou 侯金棠 1970s-, psychologist, California  web page
    
    For old Lei/Fei family photos, from Renee's website, click Gallery, then GrandmaEllenFei
    
    
    
63. Phil Young 楊志華
    
    
64. Yvette Young
    
    
65. Gretchen Sandels
    
    
66. Evonne Fei 費天愛
    
    
67. Lloyd Woodcock
    
    
68. Milo Woodcock
    
    
69. Gary Harrington
    
    
70. Cooper Harrington
    
    
71. Mallory Harrington
    
    
72. Portia Choi
    
    
73. Conrad Chang 張興阜
    
    
74. Martin Chang 張興朝
    
    
75. Robert (Bob) L. Sommers
    
    
76. Brian Sommers 夏興陸
    
    
77. Roseanna Sommers 夏碧梅
    
    
78. Ana Chou
    
    
79. Tamara Chang 張興洲
    
    
80. Olivia Chang 張興宇
    
    
81. Linda
    
    
82. Elizabeth Fei
    
    
83. Barbara Tapalow
    
    
84. Jordan Fei
    
    
85. Lee Tai
    
    
86. Trevin Fei
    
    
87. Carissa Fei
    
    
88. Sue Fen
    
    
89. Steven Lin
    
    
90. Michael Lin
    
    
91. Karen
    
    
92. Laura Lin 林瑋珊
    
    
93. Corey Woodcock
    
    A family tree update from Jean (#41), February 2014:
    
    I've been looking at the impressive family tree you have assembled. There are quite a few new comments since I last visited.  It's so nice to have; my own computer crashed and I lost photos and an article about Grandma's wedding in their Church Bulletin and other mementos.
    
    I would love to add in Corey Woodcock's (#93) partner, Emily Enslow, and their two children, Carson Christopher Woodcock, and Parker Owen Woodcock, my grandchildren. 
    
    Also, I'm nudging Evonne (#66), because she just had a new little girl in December, Mila.
    
    Cousin Jean
    
    
94. Esther Chen
    
    
95. David Fei
    
    
96. Joseph Fei
    
    
97. Jeffrey King 1970s-, family practice physician, California   web page
    
    
98. Kate King
    
    
99. Amy Hoare
    second wife of John Smith
    
    
100. Ray Bougery, Frenchman
     Grace Smith and Ray Bourgery
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101. Ellen Mary Feng Smith
     
     
102. Alan Milne
     
     
103. Madelaine Milne
104. Janine Milne
105. Hugh Milne
     
     
106. Nicole Smith Bond
     
107. Russel Bond
     
108. Douglas "Johnny" Milne
     
109. Robyn Milne Gumley
     
110. Alistair Gumley
     
111. Neil Gumley
     
112. Kassandre Murby
     
113. Lachlan Gumley
     

Smith family tree details from Nicole Bond:

Nikki Bond- actually should be Nicole (nee Smith) Bond (106) married to Russell Bond (107)(Australian).

We have 2 children;  a daughter Justine Bond (now  Justine  Penno  married to Angus Penno) and  a son  Mark Bond. We all live in Perth, Western Australia.

99= Amy Hoare. My father(22) ( now deceased- 4.07.7010), Joseph (known as Joe) Phillip Smith married to Ellen Mary (nee Feng) Smith(101) also in Perth, Western Australia

My cousin; Robyn109 (female)(nee Milne) Gumley married Alistair Gumley110 ( of Edinburgh, Scotland) and are separated. They have one son; Neil Gumley 111now partnered (engaged) to Kassandre Murby112. They have one son, Lachlan Gumley113. They all live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Robyn's brother; John- actually Douglas Milne 108 ( Johnny is the name family use- his middle name)- not married. Lives in Melbourne also

Their father is Alan Milne 102 ( Australian , marine engineer) now remarried.

103 ( female) Madelaine
104 (female) Janine
105 (male) Hugh

--  Nikki (Nicole ) Bond

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