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Hi Heather,

Thanks for that. I wonder if he is another relative. I am looking for David senior the linen draper but David junior was a wheelwright and his family were living in Frederick Street, St Thomas in later census. His son William, my great grandfather, was a master mariner who migrated to Australia in 1862, where he had a son David etc.
There is also a strange tendency to have 2 children with the same name in one family, both living, among my Cookes which gets confusing. I know people often used the same name again if a child dies but I have several families with 2 of the same name a couple of years apart still living.

Daphne

Hi Mo,
That is very likely the one, the name Jane crops up in every later generation.Also the odd practice of having 2 children of the same name in the one family.Thanks for finding that with so little to go on.Much appreciated.
Daphne.

Looking for JOHN SHAW occupation joiner.He had a daughter MARY ANN and possibly a son WILLIAM.
Thank You,
Daphne.

Record of the parents marriage there only.Thought it likely children would have been baptised there too.
Panda

Looking for descendants of WILLIAM COOKE and MARY JANE HINDS of BLANDVILLE N.S.W.
WILLIAM migrated from LIVERPOOL U.K. in 1862 and married MARY JANE in 1868.They had 10 children. 4 died as infants(ALFRED, JOHN, ESTHER and EMMELINE).The other 6 were
WILLIAM b 1870 (m ADRIANA RODWELL) d 1941?
MARY JANE b 1874 (m WILLIAM PITT) d 1932
ANNIE b 1878 (m JAMES BELLAMY) d 1947
ARTHUR b 1879 ( m MARY O'DONNELL?) d 1925
DAVID b 1880 (m SUSAN ELLIS or GIBSON) d 1959
LIZZIE b 1884 ( m JAMES SAWERS) d 1962

WILLIAM was the Captain of the GLADESVILLE HOSPITAL LAUNCH.His father DAVID COOKE was born in SCOTLAND and his mother MARY ANN SHAW was born in LIVERPOOL.U.K.His siblings all born in LIVERPOOL were
JOHN b 1843
ESTHER b 1848
JANE b 1851
DAVID b 1853
SARAH b 1859
Thanks
Panda