Gertrude & Thomas COOK

[IgorStrav]

Marriage:

Gertrude M Burwash

Reg Qtr:   Oct-Nov-Dec
Reg district:   Hendon
County:   Middlesex
Spouse:   James E Cook
Vol No:   3a
Page No:   1525


Cannot be connected to your Cook couple, can it?

[IgorStrav]

And this Gertrude (May) Cook died in Camden Apr qtr 1979 (confirmed by matching 1939 dob) so isn't the Enfield Gertrude Cook death.

[garlands]

Igor,

Thanks for all that; you've definitely eliminated this Gertrude.

Earlier, I came across a Gertrude E M COOK, and those 2 initials immediately caught my attention; could this be Gertrude Eleanor Mary? Her husband was (if I remember correctly) Charles, which would appear to rule her out, but it set me wondering if 'my' Gertrude had all three names?

George

[IgorStrav]

Igor,

Thanks for all that; you've definitely eliminated this Gertrude.

Earlier, I came across a Gertrude E M COOK, and those 2 initials immediately caught my attention; could this be Gertrude Eleanor Mary? Her husband was (if I remember correctly) Charles, which would appear to rule her out, but it set me wondering if 'my' Gertrude had all three names?

George

Well, it's certainly possible about three 'first' names, but why just show the Gertrude on the document you have, if the death and other documentary evidence is E. M. or Eleanor Mary, or Maisie Ellen.  sorry, corrected, the Maisie Ellen was his second wife

[garlands]

The document I have is a third-party's record of a question-and-answer session, the (assumed) question being "What is your name?" Answer: 'Gertrude COOK'.
The same (assumed) question to her husband eliciting the response 'Thomas COOK' even though he is actually 'Walter John Thomas COOK'.

There's a lot of 'straw clutching' going on around here at the moment.

George

[IgorStrav]

I wonder if it's worthwhile following up the neighbours - wife's second name Gertrude - who lived at number 25, the number actually mentioned on the documents.

I'm sure I'm not alone, George, in my flight of fancy considering whether there was a rift between Thomas and Eleanor Mary, and potentially between neighbours Wilfred and Doris Gertrude Hearn at no 25.

And then the remaining spouses joined up, with Gertrude calling herself Cook?

Just a thought.

[IgorStrav]

My theory (see above) is somewhat unlikely


Wilfred G Hearne 5/11/1897
Doris G Hearne 20/5/95
in 1939 at 102 Daneland, East Barnet.

Wilfred died in Enfield in 1971.

added:  And Doris Gertrude in 1975

[IgorStrav]

This is probably of no relevance but in 1959 there's an Ellen Downer living at no 21, with Walter J T and Eleanor M Cook at 23, and the Hearnes at 25 Primrose Avenue

[garlands]

Igor,

I have to confess, I've thought that Gertrude might be 'the lady next door', but, I have to agree that it is most unlikely. Just a co-incidence?

To have an Ellen DOWNER at#21 is another co-incidence? I wonder if she's Eleanor Mary's sister-in-law? Sister, I think, is unlikely - would you call your two daughters Eleanor and Ellen?

George