Cornish, Herbert George “George”
Florence Ann “Annie” (Blackmun) Cornish (1891-1992)
Father: John Charles Cornish
Mother: Sarah Jane (Huddleston) Cornish
Brother: Charles Gordon Cornish (1883-1953) (m. Kathleen Pelling)
George Cornish was born on February 22, 1885 in Quebec Citadel, Quebec. He married Florence Annie Blackmun, a telephone operator, on July 31, 1914. At the time of their marriage, he was working as an undertaker. He died on July 26, 1966 in Duncan, BC.
It appears Herbert “George” Cornish came to Princeton around 1930. At that time, he was a carpenter at the Ashington Coal Co. Also new to the community that year was Gordon Cornish (his nephew?), a labourer at the Ashington Coal Company.
H. Cornish was a Similkameen Star subscriber in September 1930. Address: Princeton
His children – Howard James (1915-1974), Herbert Milward (1917-1966), Violet Noreen (Cornish) Miller (1922-2011), John Douglas (1923-1988), and David Rowe (1929-1997) all attended Princeton School.
The Similkameen Star reported that he had opened an undertaking parlor in the former Meausette tin-shop in 1936.
In September 1938, he was hired to renovate the Princeton Department Store.
The family left Princeton around 1944.