Ann Cook (Week 20 - MFFMMM)

[Merry]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Ann Cook

Date and place of birth

unknown

Names of parents

unknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

19th March 1775 at Bratton, Wiltshire to James Newman. One of the witnesses was Shadrack Cook

Occupation(s) - if any

unknown

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

unknown but all children baptised in Bratton (1775-1796)

Date, place and cause of death

unknown

Date and place of burial.

unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

unknown

Memorial inscription - if any

unknown

Link to daughter's thread:

http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/Forum/showthread.php?t=8360&highlight=CHARITY+NEWMAN

[ElizabethHerts]

I have clicked on the batch no. for Bratton and a Shadrack Cook appears:

https://familysearch.org/search/records/index#count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ACook~%20%2Bbatch_number%3AC1523 5-1


From the Wiltshire OPC site:
I don't know if any if this is connected to your Ann, but worth investigating:

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Wiltshire%20OPC%20-%20Surnames%20-%20C.pdf

Cook Benjamin 1794 Bratton Parishoners Wills Benjamin Cook (Charles Cook and Dinah and others mentioned in same context but no Ann Newman or Shadrack Cook.)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=348057&queryType=1&resultcount=56
Cook Benjamin Lewis Bratton Monumental Inscriptions

[ElizabethHerts]

This one is possible. The date fits in fairly well.

Name: Ann Cook
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 06 May 1753
Baptism/Christening Place: BRATTON,WILTSHIRE,ENGLAND
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Charles Cook
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Constance
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C15235-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 1279341

There is an Ann Cook baptised in 1843, but probably too early.

[ElizabethHerts]

Here is the will for Benjamin Cook of Bratton:

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Bratton%20-%20Will%20of%20Benjamin%20Cook%201794.pdf

You don't have to pay the NA for it!

This is interesting:

"... Also I give to my brother Charles Cook the like sum of one hundred and twenty pounds or to his children the like sum case of his decease to be equally parted and divided between them share and share alike ..."

[Merry]

Thanks very much for those links Elizabeth (I will look at them more closely later!). I have always wanted Shadrach to be Ann Cook's brother as I think he in the one aged 90 on the 1841 census! Says he is independent there, but he died in the poorhouse in 1843 so presumably independent just meant he wasn't receiving poor relief that week!

I don't know how to establish whether that Ann Cook bap is the right one as it's such a common name.

My Bratton/Westbury relatives are very unhelpful - I don't think they were very fussed with the church - only baptising occasional children and often years after they were born. They did like their old Testament names though. I also have had problems with their burials - in fact I don't think I've ever found any despite death certs and checks with the pr's etc.

[Merry]

I wish that Benjamin was one of mine, but I haven't found any of my Wiltshire rellies living above the poverty line so far.

Where did you find this link?

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Wiltshire%20OPC%20-%20Surnames%20-%20C.pdf

I would like to see other letters of the alphabet, but don't know where to look :o

[ElizabethHerts]

Shadrack and his wife seemed to have saved up their children for one mass baptism!

COOK Abednego 1794 Westbury Wiltshire
COOK Ham 1794 Westbury Wiltshire
COOK Japheth 1794 Westbury Wiltshire
COOK Mary 1794 Westbury Wiltshire
COOK Shadrach 1794 Westbury Wiltshire
COOK Shem 1794 Westbury Wiltshire

[ElizabethHerts]

I wish that Benjamin was one of mine, but I haven't found any of my Wiltshire rellies living above the poverty line so far.

Where did you find this link?

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Wiltshire%20OPC%20-%20Surnames%20-%20C.pdf

I would like to see other letters of the alphabet, but don't know where to look :o

Merry, here it is:

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/information/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=39:information&id=1801:surname-index&Itemid=124


I wish Benjamin Cook had named his brother Charles' children! It might have helped.

[Merry]

I wish Benjamin Cook had named his brother Charles' children! It might have helped.


Indeed, though I'd be very surprised if he was closely related to my wool spinners and ag labs!

Thanks for the other link, that will give me something to do in between wrapping presents!