Gwendoline Maude CORY was born on 14th. October 1895 at Race Hill, Launceston, Cornwall. (Source :- Birth certificate of Gwendoline Maude CORY.) She was the eldest of two daughters born to William CORY and Emma Maud GREEN.

At the age of 2 years her parents had moved to Plymouth she and was living with them 75 Union Street, Plymouth, where her younger sister Annie was born in 1897.

To date little is known of her early years or education other than her father worked as a hairdresser in Union Street, Plymouth, and that he had an alcohol problem. Her father died from alcohol abuse in January 1911, she then nursed her mother at home until she had to be moved to the Workhouse Infirmary and died in 1915.

On 11th. December the same year (1915) as her mothers death she married Anthony Thomas Cecil HAWKINS in St. Peters Church, Plymouth. (Source :- Marriage certificte of Gwendoline Maud CORY and Anthony Thomas Cecil HAWKINS.)

Between her marriage in 1915 and 1918 when her husband Anthony was demobilised, she lived at 65 Keswick Street, Plymouth. Her first two children, Cecil Ceorge and Dorothy Gwendoline were born at this address.

In 1919 she moved with her husband and two children to Kopji Top, Mevagissey in Cornwall, where in 1920 she gave birth to, Thomas Hamilton and then in 1921 Grace Elizabeth.

Later in 1921 they moved to Kestle in Cornwall where in 1922 John Anthony and in 1925 Samuel Peter were born.

In 1925/6 they moved to Guadaloupe, Sparry Lane, Carharrack, Cornwall, where William David was born in 1928.

In 1930 they moved to Hicks Mill near Bissoe in Cornwall where Rachel Jane Cole Weekes was born in 1936

They moved to Trelissick Farm, Tregony, Cornwall in September 1937, where the family settled into a life of farming.

During the War years she she joined the Red Cross, had two evacuees and two prisioners of war were drafted to the farm.

When her youngest daughter Jane left home to join repotary theatre, Gwendoline and her husband bought a caravan and travelled following their daughter.

In 1955 they bought a cottage at Cardinham on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, called Foredowns. here they settled into a life of retirement.

In 1963 following the removal of a kidney and at the age of 68, she went for a holiday to Nigeria where her eldest son George was working.

In 1969 they moved to a bungalow in Bodmin Town.

When her husband died in 1969 she remained living in the bungalow with her pet monkey which had been bought for her by her husband.

In 1970 she was taken by her son Hamilton to visit her other son John in New Zealand

She left Bodmin and moved into a falt at Hayle in Cornwall close to her son Hamilton where she lived for some years until her health failed her and she developed diabetes and other conditions and moved to live with her daughter Dorothy at Par in Cornwall.

She remained living her being cared for by Dorothy until she had to be admitted to Trelisk Hospital in Truro where she died on 16th. Feburary 1984

She was buried in the cemetery at St. Earth Parish Church, Cornwall in the same grave as her husband.