Cooke - Griffith - Sarah Jane, widow married an American
Hi All
Time to repost one of my brick walls!
Robert Cooke, an Ulster, Cavan Cooke, gardener on the estate of Richard Griffith, Kilkenny Ireland eloped with Sarah Jane Griffith about 1825. The couple married somewhere and fled Ireland for Brockville, Upper Canada where they had 5 children before Robert died young about 1838-40.
Destitute and disowned by her wealthy parents, Jane farmed out the children and left Brockville for the USA, somewhere, with an American fellow she married. There were at least 2 children of this second marriage and one did get in touch with his Cooke half brothers in Lansdowne Ontario, near Brockville.
I do not know the surname for Sarah Jane's second marriage and I will have to rely on some other researcher recognizing some part of this story!
Robert Cooke and Sarah Jane Griffith were my Greatx2 grandparents.