wm.cooke

[Spidermonkey]

1891 Fanny seems to be in two places at once!  It looks as if she has also be enumerated at her parents house, along with Annie Cook (aged 4 bn Sale) and Albert Cook (aged 4 bn Luston)
RG12; Piece: 2074; Folio 35; Page 4

[Spidermonkey]

1871 census
William Cooke  Head  MAr  46  Ag lab   bn Middleton on the Hill
Pheobe Cooke  Wife  Mar  36  bn Salop Huntingdon
Mary Ann  dau  11  scholar  bn Eye
Sarah  dau  7  scholar  bn Eye
Fanny  dau  4   bn Eye
William Grosvenor  lodger  49  ag lab  bn Aymestry

RG10; Piece: 2718; Folio: 43; Page: 5

[Spidermonkey]

Just trying to tally up all the children!
William bn 1851 Ludlow
Thomas bn 1853 Eye
Joseph bn 1855 Eye
Susan bn 1858 Eye
Mary Ann bn 1860 Eye
Sarah bn 1864 Eye
Fanny bn 1867 Eye marries Albert Mapp, children Ann Cooke, William, Arthur, Phoebe, Alice, Mary
Caroline bn 1870 Eye marries James Downes, children William, Agnes, Elizabeth and Florence
Arthur bn 1874 Eye
Gertrude bn 1876 Eye

[Spidermonkey]

On 1871 census Thomas is with his uncle George Cook and family in Laysters Pole.  George is a shoemaker, so presumably Thomas was learning his craft from him RG10; Piece: 2713; Folio: 38; Page: 17

[jimbach]

hello again mort29 and spidermonkey your  findings have encouraged me  no end    assumptions id made have been proved wrong   good thing too     ones memory does play tricks            im loking at phoebe and 5daughtersin this photo plus 2younger girls        the obvious did not occur to me 2granddaughters               william jones had  issue   and ibelieve  1 male descendant  is living  inthe w.midlands            fanneys son   wm charles  mapp became labour m.p. for  oldham east in the60s   the lot of agri.workers in hereford greatly influenced him               mary ann emigrated to w,australia where i think two of her 3  girls left issue         gertrude married a quarryman in n.wales    where family still live   and sarahmarried incheshire where family still live           thomas lived in sale cheshire and was a bootmaker                  you see both of you how  youve clothed the bare bones i look forward to more      thank you     jb

[Spidermonkey]

I'm pleased that we have been able to help you, Jim!

I think rather than marry a quarryman, Gertrude actually married the postman!
50 High St, dwygyfylchi, Caernarvonshire
Thomas Roberts  Head  Mar  36  postman bn Penmaenmawr
Gertrude Roberts  Wife  Mar  36  bn Hereford Moreton Eye
Margaret Roberts  dau  2  bn Penmaenmawr
Pheobe ROberts  dau  1  bn Penmaenmawr

RG13; Piece: 5286; Folio: 134; Page: 28

[Spidermonkey]

Looking at the 1911 index, they are still in Caernarvonshire; line up of children slightly different though:
Margaret Jane bn abt 1899
William Ellis bn abt 1905
Edith Annie bn abt 1907
Gwendoline bn abt 1909
Ethel bn 1911

[Spidermonkey]

1881 for THomas Cook:
School ROad, 12 Orchard Place, Sale
Thomas Cook  Head  MAr  27  Bootmaker  bn Hereford Eye
Sarah E Cook  Wife  Mar  31  bn Cheshire Sale
Arthur Gresty  step son  7  scholar bn Cheshire Sale

[Spidermonkey]

Thomas Cooke mar Sarah Ellen Gresty Dec qtr 1877 Altrincham 8a 265

1891 census:
8 Hayfield St, Sale
Thomas Cooke  Head  Mar  38  Boot and shoe maker  bn Herefordshire Eye
Ellen Cooke  Wife  mar  40  bn Sale Cheshire