After the demise of Henry Cobham, George Ashworth Cobham remained in Lancashire to comfort the grieving family, assisting in the funeral of his brother, and supporting the family business. Historians forget that the second son was merely nineteen. At the time of Henry's death, Aunts Alice and Ellen Cobham held most of the controlling interests in the extensive properties still owned by the Cobhams. For several years after the tragedy, George Ashworth Cobham would travel through England sometimes working, visiting, and writing about architecture, living quite the life and enjoying the ladies, one in particular named Mary Nottage. He spoke of her in loving terms, and about the delightful times that they spent together, but finally realized it was not to be.
His work consisted of being educated as a Barrister also managing the properties of the Cobhams and Hargreaves. On many occasions, he returned to Liverpool visiting with Aunt Alice, Aunt Ellen and other family members. Finally in 1828, he returned and proposed to the widow of his brother, Catherine, who was some ten years his senior. They were married October the 27th 1828, in Prestwick Church near Manchester in Lancashire England with duly noted publication of Banns. Aunt Alice upon the marriage of Henry Cobhams widow Catherine Curry Cobham to George Ashworth Cobham would transfer some of her properties to George. Upon her death, she left much of her estate to her great nephews the sons of Henry...Henry and George Ashworth Cobham, which in later years would become a litigious and contentious situation, creating lawsuits in England, and America.
George Ashworth Cobham Sr was confined in a debtor prison when he ran afoul of the law. Upon being declared bankrupt and much of his properties sold to pay his creditors, he was released, only to be confronted by the Ecclesiastical Court who planned to have his marriage to Catherine Curry Cobham dissolved. According to English Canon law, it was illegal to marry your brother's wife. George Sr fled to France to avoid further troubles with the law and soon after his wife Catherine joined him along with sons Henry, George, and Frederick Fearns Cobham who had been born September 7th 1831. They resided in France for nearly two years, and while residing in France, Catherine gave birth on March 20th 1834 to their daughter Georgina.
In the later part of 1834, George Sr and family left France and made their way to America. They spent the winter of that year in New York where George Sr sought areas where he felt he could again become prosperous. While, in Jamestown New York, George Cobham Sr spent several more months looking for a suitable place for he and his family, and at long last decided on Warren Pennsylvania. The spring of 1835 The Cobhams finally made their way to Warren Pennsylvania via Albany, Buffalo, and Jamestown New York. So it was that "The Cobhams" became residents of Warren Pennsylvania, which leads us to Brigadier George Ashworth Cobham Jr. A civil war Hero and his travels through the battlefields.
Jacqueline F Hurlbut, Author, Patriot Heart: A story about Brigadier General George Ashworth Cobham Jr,who was killed at The Battle of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta Georgia. Over 100 personal letters,and documents written from the battlefields that would provide insight, glimpses of his personal life, his view of the war and the battles that he and his men fought. It is true they were from his perspective, a vision which came from a man of faith, an officer, gentleman, patriot, husband, father, son, and brother, who would in due course be called a Hero. See more information at http://libertyandvirtue.com/ ?
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