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Hi Lisa, I would be very interested for any information you have on Robert Corner. I have been searching for days to find out what happened to his mother Isabella to no avail. My own dad remembers as a child visiting relatives in Whitby called Foxton, although he was very young and doesn’t remember any details. I’m thinking that as Isabella was young when she was widowed (27) she remarried and I wonder if this wasn’t Thomas Tunley. Mentioned in pervious post, on here. Son Robert William seems to have been given the name Tunley (1891 census) His age and Isabella's age certainly fit. He was certainly Corner when he married Rose Ann Hawksby my dad remembers visiting an auntie of his mothers in a street off Canon street Middlesbrough called aunt Lil, (? Lily Tunley) Dad also remembers the family story of Robert Corner drowning as the boat the Flying Spray sank just outside Whitby harbour.