Born in Scots Bay, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Legge
and Anne A. (Corkum) Legge
Sister of
John Harding Legge, Mary Elshea (Legge) Millet, Thomas Leander Legge, Ella A. (Legge) Maxwell, Floyd Lemert Legge, Emma Celestia Legge, Effie Laurentine (Legge) Whitten, Bertha Everette (Legge) Lyons, Pearl Blanche (Legge) Lyons, Benjamin Wyman Legge and Cora Elvira (Legge) Lyons
Wife of
Alfred Leroy Corbin
— married
18 Jul 1905 in Scotts Bay Methodist Church, Nova Scotia
Died
at age 95
in Scots Bay, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Aug 2008
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Biography
Dora was born February 1, 1877, in Scotts Bay Road, Canning, Nova Scotia. Like the other children, she was delivered at home with a midwife instead of at a hospital.
Her birth certificate application, filed in 1945, includes an affadavit from her uncle C.C.(?) Corkum who says he was there at the birth, while boarding at the house.
This application has her middle name as Lila, but her marriage certificate has it as Delilah. C.C. Corkum was a witness and J.P. Corkum was the minister?
She married Alfred Corbin from Berwick in 1905.[1] They lived in Aylesford, Nova Scotia.
Unlike some of her sisters, she stayed in Nova Scotia all her life.
Sources
- ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WWNK-Y43Z : 1 July 2022), Dora Delilah Legge in entry for Alfred Corbin, 18 Jul 1905; citing Marriage, Nova Scotia, Canada, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax; FHL microfilm 004059107.
- "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHK1-XZJ : 18 March 2018), Dora D Legge in household of Annie Legge, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 7, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
- Death date from Lyons family bible of Roy E. Lyons, Jr.
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Marsha (Ciaramello) Auger
As far as I know, Aunt Dora and her husband, Alfred Corbin, had no children. Aunt Dora lived with her sister, Pearl Lyons; in her childhood home on Scots Bay Road, for the final years of her life. I spent several days visiting at Aunt Pearl and Uncle Roy's around July, 1971. During those days, a physically frail Aunt Dora, entertained with her charm and wit. Her conversation was filled with literary quotes and poetic passages. Not a bit of mental frailty at the advanced age of 94! I believe that she died within the next year or so. Dora and Pearl were my grandmother, Bertha Legge Lyons' sisters. Marsha Auger
posted 9 May 2010 by Marsha (Ciaramello) Auger
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dora:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dora:
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~12.50%
Ted (Whitten) Whittenkraus
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M811699 [compare]
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~12.50%
Glenn Legge :
23andMe
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~12.50%
~25.00%
D (X) LX :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member twogorb
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~6.25%
Chris Whitten :
23andMe, yourDNAportal CHR61965ed9
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A820770 [compare], Ancestry member ciwhitten
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #330041
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Living DNA
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~6.25%
~6.25%
Amy (Sousa) Dickens :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
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~1.56%
Wilfred Hatch :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Betsy (Leggee) Byrne :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A367815 [compare], Ancestry member Betsybyrnemecom
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~1.56%
Heidi (Collins) Krannig :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Wanda Millett :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Denise Rhynold :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XS9247618 [compare], yourDNAportal DEN90c9f5b2, Ancestry member denise_rhynold
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