Birth/Baptism Lookup Please - COOK - Boxford

[rene oliver]

I have some names and birth dates  and wonder if anyone could tell me if they are of the same family:
Mary Ann Cook - bn. Boxford   1815
Eliza Cook bn. Boxford  1821
Jane Cook bn. Boxford abt. 1820

Thank you,
 Rene Oliver

[suzard]

Don't know if this will help??

Eliza and Jane appear together in 1841

1841
Church St Boford Suffolk
Eliza Cook 20 Ind
Jane Cook 20 Ind
Susanah Wass 15 F.S.

all b in county

next door is a family of Cooks

John Cook 45 publican
Mary 45
John 15 app Butcher
Edgar 15 app blacksmith
John Nicholas 50 ag lab

HO107 1011 4 18 7

Suz

[rene oliver]

Thank you for that Suz.
The Mary Ann Cook I mentioned was shownas `independant  means` and was recorded at Little Cornard, Suffolk.  She had her daughtr with her.  This person is related to us and is the earliest Cook we can find.

[rene oliver]

Thank you for that Suz.
The Mary Ann Cook I mentioned was shown as `independant  means` and was recorded at Little Cornard, Suffolk.  She had her daughter with her.  This person is related to us and is the earliest Cook we can find.  We believe that the daughter Harriet was illegitimate.  If Mary Ann is a sibling of those mentioned by you it seems that the daughters were `looked after` by the Parents and the Sons had to work for a living.  I would love to be able to prove that those Cooks mentioned on the 1841 Census are a complete family unit (including my Mary Ann) but without any evidence of births and parentage this will not happen.

Have you any suggestions.

Rene Oliver
Half a reply might have escaped, I have a cursor which goes on walkabout!!

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[Suffolk Mawther]

I have checked in White's of 1844 as nearest to the dates mentioned and

John King Cook was the landlord of the Chequers Inn in Boxford.

He is also listed as a blacksmith - often the Inn was really the domain of the wife and the husband followed his own occupation.

Pat ...
living in the same benefice as Boxford 

[suzard]

there is a baptism IGI - extracted
Eliza Cook
baptised 29 Mar 1821 Boxford
parents William henry Cook/Esther

Suz

[rene oliver]

I have checked in White's of 1844 as nearest to the dates mentioned and

John King Cook was the landlord of the Chequers Inn in Boxford.

He is also listed as a blacksmith - often the Inn was really the domain of the wife and the husband followed his own occupation.

Pat ...
living in the same benefice as Boxford 

[rene oliver]

Hello again.

I have now checked out the 1841-1861 census forms and it appears that -

John King Cook had a wife Mary, and children:
John bn. 1826 (he became an Innkeeper too)- was a butcher
Edgar bn. 1826- was a blacksmith
Eliza bn. 1821
Jane bn. abt. 1821/22.

So we have a family unit with these people.

My Mary Ann  Cook bn. 1815 in Boxford. (of independant means) could be another daughter if Mary gave birth to her when she was 19 or thereabouts.


I have no other leads regarding Cooks in Boxford around 1815.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Doh!

Just realised I forgot to say that The Chequers Inn (which we can remember as a pub) was not in Boxford itself, but in the hamlet of Stone Street.

The hamlet and the village are now separated by the Boxford by-pass road.

(This road has been in the news as a British comedian Jimmy Carr was caught speeding along the by-pass in his Bentley motor car earlier this year - the case was heard yesterday at Sudbury Magistrates Court).

Pat ...