Re: Thomas Cook, b. 1835, Woolwich
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lynda cook 2/16/03
Lynda,
It is quite likely that the Thomas Cook you refer to is the Thomas Cook who was born to Thomas and Mary (nee Martin) Cook of Woolwich on 29 Nov. 1835 at "1/4 before 4 Oclock Morming" according to my family records.Thomas was the first son and third child of nine born to this couple.My great-great-grandmother Elizabeth (nee Cook) Drury was the fifth child of this couple and was born in 1839 in Woolwich.These children were all baptised at St. mary Magdalene in Woolwich.
Thomas Cook and Mary Martin were married at St. Luke's in Charlton, Kent, in 1831.Thomas was the son of John and Elizabeth (nee Hillman) Cook.This John Cook was a Foreman at the Royal Laboratory in Woolwich.His son Thomas was a firework maker and also at one time a Foreman at the Royal Arsenal.
I believe (but am not absolutely positive) that John Cook (h. of Elizabeth nee Hillman) was the son of a John and Sarah Cook, who christened I believe six children at St. Mary Magdalene in Woolwich during the period 1772-1786.
I do not know when or where this John and Sarah Cook were married; I have searched diligently and found nothing.There is a possibility that this John Cook was a blacksmith by occupation, as I have found on the PRO online a will for a John Cook, blacksmith, of Woolwich, who died in 1821 I believe, leaving what little he had (no real estate is mentioned) to his wife Sarah.
We have a family tradition that our Cooks are related to Capt. Cook, perhaps through a brother or paternal uncle of the explorer.Cook's biographer, J. C. Beaglehole, writes that James Cook Sr. (Cook's father) had brothers but that no one knows their names or what became of them.It seems quite likely that James Cook Sr. had a brother named John (after all, the father of James Cook was John Cook[e]) who emigrated to the Woolwich area -- or perhaps his descendants did.It is interesting to note that the parish register for Great Ayton, Yorkshire (where the explorer spent his boyhood) shows the marriage of a John Cook and an Elizabeth Easton in 1721 (just a few years before the marriage of Capt. Cook's parents).
I have also been in contact with someone who is a descendant of Charles (b. in Kent, England) and Rose (nee Morris) Cook -- perhaps this is the same Charles as the one you mentioned.
I hope this helps.
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