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In reply to your query, I have the following information and observations, but leave it to each to determine whether the pieces fit.
First, the major source for going back to Cumberland is a book "Curwens of Cumberland by John Curwen, dated 1928. The subtitle is: The Ancient Honorable & Royal Line of Curwens". This is available on microfiche from the Family History Center in Salt Lake.
Second, I do not believe in coincidences when there are more then two. And at this point I will give my observations and allow all to pick out their own options:
Being a firm believer in enough coincidences make for fact, and that there is documentation that states that George Corwin is the son of John, the son of Sir Henry, I take that as the first item. It is interesting that he makes the statement in that book that Matthais is not related to Sir Henry, and that Sir Henry's son John also had three sons named Thomas, Matthais, and George. I have known for years (via my grandfather Corwin) that Matthais & George were brothers in-spite of attempts to separate the two. I had also known that Henry Curwin in the lineage that I had been given, by past generations, show his wife was named Mary.
The only record of a Henry Curwin in Workington with a wife named Mary, a son named John, and three grandson's named Thomas, Matthais, and George, at the end of the 1500's, in my book has to be Sir Henry Curwin who was married to Mary Fairfax. This also makes sense if you believe that Matthais was married twice, the first to Margaret Morton, daughter of Bishop Thomas Morton of Durham Cathedral, and then to Margaret Shatswell in Mass. Which would have been a necessity with 3 children under the age of 4 years, if your first wife had died shortly after the birth of Theophilis in 1634. The ship list for Matthais shows that he arrived on the "Good Ship Lion" in November, 1630, with wife and child. Yet in this country all you find is three children listed even though there were 4. The oldest "Mary", must have died between 1628 & 1630 in England, and the child that is mentioned on the ship list has to be John, which would make his birth in 1630.
Individual facts that have been proven.
1. Matthais had two brothers named George, and Thomas, with George being the youngest
2. His fathers name was John, and his grandfathers name was Henry
3. His grandmother's name was Mary.
4. He was married to a woman named Margaret
5. His grandfather lived in Cumberland, England even though his father was a "husbandman" in Sibbertoft, Warwick, England but had been born in Cumberland.
Additional information:
The only Henry Curwen in Cumberland, England that had a son named John and Grandson's named Matthias, Thomas, and George, was Sir Henry Curwen of Workington, Cumberland, England, who died approximately 1592.
One Matthais Curwen (Corwin) married Margaret Morton, the daughter of Bishop Thomas Morton of Durham Cathedral.
Sir Henry Curwen was married to Mary Fairfax, the daughter of Sir Nicolas Fairfax of Yorkshire, England.
A George Corwin, arrived in Boston almost 10 years after Matthias, and became a merchant and married well into the Mayflower group.
My contention is that Matthias is the grandson of Sir Henry Curwen and Mary Fairfax, that he married Margaret Morton of Durham, Yorkshire, and had two children born in England. The first born was a daughter named Mary, and the second was John, the child listed on the Good Ship Lion manifest when they landed at Plymouth on November 11, 1630. His father was not "just a husbandman, but a gentleman farmer, and possible working lands that had been his fathers and passed to him. That would account for Matthias being a freeman with some funds coming to a new world to make his way. That would also explain his standing in the communities that he helped found (3), and the knowledge to be able to pull it off.
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