Edwin Cooke

[Taradale59]

My g-g grandfather was born in 1811 in Wellinborough, Northampton, married in London (St John the Evangalist, Waterloo) in 1834 to Eliza Martin and died in Camberwell Infirmary in 1877. According to a number of Ancestry.co.uk Public Trees he was the son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus entrepreneur, and Mary Ann Thorpe (or Chapman). Despite a number of messages to holders of these Public Trees no one has yet provided "evidence" of this connection - no parish records etc.

Can anyone help?

[Mary from Italy]

Assuming this biography's correct, Thomas Edwin Cooke, son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, is a different person from your Edwin:

http://tinyurl.com/jho4qd6

FindmyPast has Northamptonshire parish records, but I haven't found a baptism so far for your Edwin, either in Wellingborough or elsewhere.

[Taradale59]

Thanks Mary. Yes my Edwin is not Thomas Edwin. Thomas Taplin is supposed to have had 19 children and they were born all round the British Isles. He had a circus so traveled about and his kids were born all over!

Should have mentioned I had been to the Northampton Records Office and been through all their Parish Records with no luck. My Edwin didn't go into the Circus business, he was a tallow merchant in and around Lambeth.
Cheers
David

[ElizabethHerts]

FMP doesn't seem to have baptisms for Northamptonshire, unfortunately.

It's a shame that the marriage record doesn't help. No Cooke witnesses, unfortunately.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_198064-00040?pid=3491714&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcg i-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dLMAmarriages%26gs s%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dEdwin%26 gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dCooke%26gsln_x%3d0%26MSAV%3d1% 26uidh%3dho3%26pcat%3d34%26fh%3d0%26h%3d3491714%26 recoff%3d10%2b11%26ml_rpos%3d1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

[ElizabethHerts]

For the record:

1841 Census at Bethnal Green:
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8978/MDXHO107_694_694-0235?pid=15974999&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcg i-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3duki1841%26h%3d159 74999%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26rhSource %3d8860&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

1851 Census
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_198064-00040?pid=3491714&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcg i-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dLMAmarriages%26gs s%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dEdwin%26 gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dCooke%26gsln_x%3d0%26MSAV%3d1% 26uidh%3dho3%26pcat%3d34%26fh%3d0%26h%3d3491714%26 recoff%3d10%2b11%26ml_rpos%3d1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true


1861 Census (rather torn and tattered)
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8767/SRYRG9_352_355-0116?pid=6297158&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcg i-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3duki1861%26h%3d629 7158%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26rhSource% 3d8860&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

1871 Census
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7619/LNDRG10_668_669-0033?pid=2395954&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcg i-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3duki1871%26h%3d239 5954%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26rhSource% 3d8767&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

It's a shame no Cooke relatives are with them at any time.

[kiterunner]

The Northamptonshire parish registers are on ancestry, not FMP, but I can't see him in there.

[kiterunner]

Elizabeth, your link for the 1851 census takes me to the marriage record.

[kiterunner]

There is an Edwin, son of Mary Beal, baptised 11 Nov 1810 at Wellingborough. We need to see if we can rule him out (or in).

[Taradale59]

Thomas Taplin was married to Mary Ann Thorpe (or Chapman) so I doubt if Mary Beal's Edwin is the one

[kiterunner]

Sorry, I thought you said you didn't think your Edwin was the son of Thomas Taplin Cooke? Or have I misunderstood?

[Taradale59]

Ah! I see your point. There are so many saying that Thomas Taplin was the father that what I was asking for was the "evidence" ie a baptism record or such. I overlooked the possibility that Mary Beal's Edwin may have had a father with a surname Cooke. What I really want to know is who is his father and by what believable proof. Where do we go from here?

[kiterunner]

Edwin Beal, son of Mary Beal, was buried 27 Nov 1811, so we can rule him out.

[kiterunner]

I suppose we should look at all Thomas and Mary Ann's known children to see if we can find a connection between one of them and Edwin.