Macnab of Glasgow

[kenneth cooke]

To Sancti,
Thanks for all that,
Ken

[kenneth cooke]

I have just received a copy of the Death Certificate for Agnes Macnab.
Death Cert. Reg. 26 Aug. 1942
Agnes West Macnab, mar. to James Cooke Macnab, Stockbrokers Clerk(retired), died 23 August 1942 at Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow, 54 years. Father- George Gunn, Mercantile Clerk (deceased), mother- Mary Gunn, nee Stark, (deceased).
Informant, James Macnab, widower, 59 Baronald Dr. Glasgow.

[sancti]

Death notice in Glasgow Herald

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19420826&printsec=frontpage

[kenneth cooke]

Thanks again John.
Agnes was known as 'Nan'.

[kenneth cooke]

Other Deaths:
James Cooke Macnab 1982,  Lydia Macnab (his mother) 1960 (aged 95), Lillie (sister) 1971.
James Gibb Macnab, 1901,  ditto 1919  (his g’father & father, or reverse?)
Jeanie Gibb Macnab 1918, and Agnes Henderson Macnab 1930, (his aunts)
These are from the index, and are fairly certain, although no certs. have been
checked.

[arch05071980]

Fao Ken Cooke;-
I've just joined this forum to reply to your request for information on James Cooke Macnab which unexpectedly came to my recent attention! In 1989 my now late-father Richard Paul Cooke Macnab documented a Macnab family tree going back to 1730. I will be happy to forward this along with some notes prepared by JC Macnab's daughter Jean (born January 1927 and still alive) about her grandmother Lydia Thomasina Cooke.
Kind regards,
Peter Macnab (2nd cousin to Jean Macnab)

[kenneth cooke]

Hi Peter,
Thanks for your info about the Cooke Macnabs. I would really like to have the family tree and any other relevant information. You could post the broader details on this forum, but to convey the family tree etc. you will need my contact details.
When you have posted two more replies, you will be eligible to use the personal message system,
and contact me direct through rootschat.
Meanwhile, as you also seem to be descended from the Cookes, and Swenys of Dublin, you could look them up on rootschat. That's Cooke of B'ham, Derby & Dublin and Sweny of Dublin. Just google in the name & place followed by 'rootschat' and you'll bring them up.
I'm also descended from Stevenson of Glasgow, but there are so many of them, that I haven't tackled them yet.
Regards & thanks,
Ken

[kenneth cooke]

I thought I had mentioned the Sweny connection in this column, but now I have checked and found no mention of them. The parents of Lydia Thomasina Cooke were William Bromley Cooke and Thomasina Sweny. WBC was the brother of my great grandfather, Thomas Smith Cooke. The two Cooke brothers had married two Sweny sisters; my Gr.grandmother was Margaret Sweny.

The Swenys were descended from a clan of Irish 'gallowglass' or mercenary warriors, and in recent times distinguished themselves in the services, fighting at Waterloo, Trafalgar etc. So I thought, when I read about James Cooke Macnab, that the fighting spirit must have come from the Swenys,at least in part.
See also the topic "Sweny of Dublin" at rootschat.com
Ken

[arch05071980]

Hi Ken,
I recently spent some enjoyable time reading many of your posts on related branches of your extended family....impressed to read of Napoleon's appreciation of a Sweny's fighting spirit! James Cooke Macnab was my father's uncle and I remember him as "Uncle Jimmy". Unfortunately he was profoundly deaf by the time I knew him and had never taken to lip-reading. Deafness had blighted him from his WW1 experiences in the trenches.
I look forward to providing you with the information previously mentioned.
Kind regards,
Peter.