JOHN & ANN (nee Card) ROOTS FAMILY

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Marriage;
10 March 1850, St Pancras Parish Chapel
Georgiana ROOTS, Full Age, Spinster, Residence Watford, Herts (Hertfordshire), Father JOHN Roots, Occp Butcher
Joseph Newman LEACH, Full Age, Bachelor, Occp Miller, Residence St Pancras, Father JAMES Miller, Occp Miller
Witnesses are hard to read, John Voice?/Mary Bond?

1851 Census
Watford, Hertfordshire
HO107/1714/325/8
Joseph Newman LEACH, 32, Head, Mar, Miller, born Watford, Herts
Georgiana Leach, 32, Wife, Mar, born Brighton, Sussex
James Leach, 2mths, Son, born Watford, Herts

1861 it looks like Son James has died and by 1871 Georgiana is Widowed also. She is still around in 1891 Census, a Widow living on own means.
1871 she has a Charles H H SOOK, age 27, Birth c 18444, Nephew, born Kentish Town, Middlesex, living with her.
She gives, Langstone, Essex, as her POB in 1871!

OH could Charles H H be a COOK, as image is hard to read.

Could Charles Hy COOK, age 5, from Passenger List Casalguidi quoted, and Chrsistening she found as Charles Henry Herbert Cook, have gone back to England
Looks to me that he did!

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I had trouble reading Charles's Occp in 1871. I think it says "Under Headmaster at St Johns College, Cambridge"
RG10/1381/65/20

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Familysearch.Org has a Georgiana ROOTS Christened 18 Aug 1816, Laughton, Sussex to JOHN/ANN

Someone has a Tree for Charles, Dr Charles Henry Herbert Cook, birth 30 Sept 1843, Death 21/5/1910, New Zealand.
Has a Photo but no Parents for him.
Married Emily Denman.
Son Charles Frederick Denman Cook of Marton, Wanganui, NZ died 1918 in Hampshire. There is a 1920 Probate for him in London.

All of this is interesting but does not help with the original enguiry much sorry!
I cant find Georgiana in 1841 pre Marriage.

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Charles Henry Herbert COOK
It says "Under Graduate".  The Cambridge University Alumni gives his date of birth as 30 Sep 1843 Southwark (baptised 24 Dec).  First son of Charles COOK, gent, of Melbourne.  Professor of mathematics at Canterbury College, New Zealand 1874-1907.  Died New Zealand May 1910 (Marton, Rangitikei, New Zealand).

Catteo, does the death certificate for Mary COOK nee ROOTS give her mother as Ann CARD?

It's hard to decide where she was actually born when the births of the children in the shipping list were given as Kent when they weren't actually born here and whether Kentish Town (Paddington) has any significance given that it is mentioned as Charles H H COOK's place of birth in the 1871 census

Casalguidi

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Thank you everyone for your great help.  I have passed all this on tomy friend and he has worked out just how it all fits in - he is another Charles Cook!!! - so many of them.  He's justreceived the death cert of Charles (who emigrated in 1849) and it says his place of birth is London!!!  So chances of finding anymore is probably a tad hard with that name.
Yes he did return to England and that is where he met Emily.
re Mary Roots, the Victorian Indexes show Mary's mother as Ann Card, we don't have her death cert.

Trish you say  'someone has a tree for Charles' where is that - on Familysearch or Ancestry  we may be able to chase this up and pass on info, it might be a NZ connection.
Thanks again everyone.

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The Tree is on Ancestry

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Thanks Trish