When Catherine Desiah Corkum was born on 26 October 1858, in Mount Pleasant, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Johann Frederick Corkum, was 33 and her mother, Catharine Elizabeth Wambach, was 34. She married James Rufus Corkum on 25 December 1884, in West Dublin, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 17 January 1886, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 27, and was buried in West Dublin, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Americanized form of Dutch Van Gorcum or Van Gorkum, a habitational name from the city of Gorinchem in South-Holland province.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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