am pretty sure elizabeth who married john cook are cousins as you have her maiden name cook, she is my gg grandmother janet cook,sister, in 1851 census elizabeth is living with her brother john cook a coalminer, and he married to jean laird and moved to nz, elizabeth the sister married in 1853 seems to have stayed, john cooks children have the erskine names as middle names so i know his and janet and elizabeths parents were elizabeth and james cook nee erskine, james is a mason i think and born in auchterderran fife, but can't find his family and birth
Re: Taking the Cook family back to 1691 (1)
« Reply #47 on: Saturday 24 May 08 10:31 BST (UK) »
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Hello All,
For my next exercise, I chose a middle aged couple living at No. 74 Oakleys Rows in Beath, an area of Fife that I know very well. John Cook and his wife, Elizabeth Cook (Cook was her Maiden Surname) were both 53 year of age having been born in 1828. John had been born at Dunfermline and Elizabeth at Auchterderran. Their marriage took place in 1853 and the Banns of Marriage had been called on 14th May, 1853 at Dalgety and 24th June, 1853 at Aberdour respectively. With them at the time of the 1881 Census was their unmarried son, William Cook aged 18. Both William and his Dad were coal miners.
John and Elizabeth Cook's children were:
Archibald Cook born 27th August, 1853 at Dalgety in Fife.
James Cook born 22nd October, 1855 at Dalgety in Fife.
John Cook born 2nd January, 1859 at Dalgety in Fife.
Elizabeth Cook born 3rd July, 1861 at Dalgety in Fife.
Anne Cook also born 3rd July, 1861 at Dalgety in Fife.
James Cook born 30th June, 1863 at Dunfermline in Fife
William Cook, the young lad shown on the 1881 Census was born within a year of the previous birth, also at Dunfermline.
Once again, researchers out there on RootsChat have quite a bit of new information on the Cook family, and as "recent" as the mid to late 1800's.
Kind Regards,
Tom.
