Born in Windsor Road, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jacob Ernst Pentz
and Anna Maria Sophia Corkum
Sister of
Michael Edwin Pentz, Elizabeth Mary (Pence) Pentz [half], Jacob Conrad Pence [half], Sarah Sophia Pence [half], Adam William Pence [half], Henry John Pence [half], Susannah Dorothy Pence [half], William Pence [half], John Rogers Earnest Pentz, George James Pentz, Elizabeth Jane Pentz, Daniel Angus Pentz, Daniel Hiram Pentz, Richard Edward Pentz, Georgeanna Stewart Pentz, Edward Krein Pentz and Margaret Emeline Pentz
Wife of
Joseph Etter Corkum
— married
21 Oct 1839 in Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Descendants 
Mother of
George Edward DeLacy Corkum,
Joseph A. Corkum,
Harding P. Corkum,
John Pryor Corkum,
Noble Wentworth Corkum,
James Lewis Corkum,
Anne A. (Corkum) Legge,
Emma Corkum,
Marshall Napier Corkum,
Clement Calvert Corkum and
Edith Mabel (Corkum) Wood
Died in Scots Bay Road, Nova Scotia
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Aug 2008
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Biography
Also known as 'Dorothy Ann'.
Born 13 May 1821 Windsor Road, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1]
Buried Scots Bay, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [2]
Note: A birth date of January 1821 and a marriage date of October 26, 1839, were in the profile edited by Jamie Swindells, etc., without original sources cited.
Sources
- S20 Fourth Census of Canada, 1901, Nova Scotia, District #36 Kings Co., Scots Bay., Record Type: microfilm. April 10, 1901. Repository: Nova Scotia Public Archives and Records Management.
- S5 Marriages, 'Corkum' at So. Shore Gen. Society, Box 901, Lunenburg, NS, Canada
- S82 Vital Statistics from NS Newspapers 1813-1822, Terrence Punch. Repository: Lynnfield Public Library, Lynnfield, Massachusetts 01940.
- S93 FGS of Greta Pentz-Himmelman, Petite Riviere, NS., Compiler Address: Petite Riviere, NS, Canada, Author: Pentz-Himmelman, Greta.
- Research on Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree, Record for Jacob Pence, by Jamie Swindells. No original sources given.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with Dorothy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with Dorothy:
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~12.50%
Glenn Legge
:
23andMe
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~6.25%
Ted (Whitten) Whittenkraus :
23andMe, GEDmatch M811699 [compare]
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~6.25%
~6.25%
Marsha (Ciaramello) Auger :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
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~3.12%
Chris Whitten :
23andMe, yourDNAportal CHR61965ed9
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A820770 [compare], Ancestry member ciwhitten
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #330041
+
Living DNA
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~3.12%
~3.12%
Amy (Sousa) Dickens :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
-
~3.12%
Wilfred Hatch :
AncestryDNA
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~3.12%
Heidi (Collins) Krannig :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Pauline (Eisner) Bouvier :
23andMe, GEDmatch M822190 [compare]
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Dorothy is 18 degrees from Charlotte Brontë, 13 degrees from Louisa May Alcott, 33 degrees from Victoria Benedictsson, 20 degrees from Rosalind Nield, 19 degrees from Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 degrees from Amy de Leeuw, 12 degrees from Harriet Arbuthnot, 21 degrees from Aurore Dupin de Francueil, 23 degrees from Isabella Crawford and 17 degrees from Barry Smith on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.