THE COOK FAMILIES OF FOLKESTONE, KENT

MY COOK TREE
	JOHN COOK			&	ELIZABETH d.17.02.1563 

	RICHARD COOK			&	??
	Elynne			21.03.1575

	ROBERT COOK			&	ELIZABETH FULLER m.08.08.1708    		Fisherman
	d.07.12.1735
	Sarah			26.06.1709		m.James Mylton 08.01.1733			
	Robert			05.11.1712 		m.Margaret Atwell 19.07.1741
	John			05.11.1712 
	Ann			28.12.1715 d.25.06.1717
	Ann			22.02.1717		m.William Baker 25.04.1742
	Thomas			12.07.1719 		m.Ann Glandfield 11.05.1757?
	William			20.10.1721 d.05.05.1722
	Joseph			30.10.1723 		m.Ann Ladd 12.11.1750
	Benjamin		08.03.1730 d.02.03.1730/1

	SAM/SIMON COCK/COX/COOK		&	MARY REEVE m.28.07.1712
	Mary (Cock)		25.12.1720
	John (Cook)		22.06.1725 		m.Elizabeth
	Elizabeth(Cook)		22.06.1725 
	Elizabeth(Cock)		15.01.1727   		m.William Nickalls 23.03.1755
	Jane (Cock)		15.01.1727 

	ROBERT COOKE 			&	MARGARET ATWELL m.19.07.1741			Privateer
	d.09.03.1760				d.23.03.1805  
	John 			13.12.1742 		m.Mary Lacy 02.02.1761
	Margaret		07.12.1747		m.John Mascall 05.11.1777		(birth transcribed as to Robert and Mary)
	Anne			20.09.1754		unmarried d.13.07.1857 aged 102 years. Niece Elizabeth Tucker née Mascall			

	JOHN COOK			&	 ELIZABETH					Maltster
	d.21.12.1753				 d.22.04.1760
	Elizabeth		30.08.1747 		m.Henry Marshall 05.04.1783?

	JOSEPH COOK			&	ANN LADD m.12.11.1750
	d.08.06.1785				d.18.11.1794
	Robert			10.11.1751   
	Joseph			03.08.1753		m.Jane Barden Lic 23.09.1783, m.28.09.1783	d.08.06.1785?
	William 		07.02.1755 d.12.01.1755
	Thomas			22.08.1756   		m.1)Sarah Marsh 04.01.1780 2)Susanna Cullen m.27.06.1798
	Ann 			23.04.1758 d.07.12.1760?
	William 		09.05.1760   

	JOHN COOK of Newington		&	MARY LACEY m.02.02.1761 			Mariner
	d.17.11.1795
	William			25.10.1761						
	John 	 		10.02.1765 		m.Mary Greenland 08.10.1791	
	Richard 		09.10.1768 	d.20.02.1842, 73
	Mary 			15.03.1772   		m.Daniel Colfe 04.01.1795
	Susan 			16.12.1774 d.14.06.1777

	THOMAS COOK			& 	1)SARAH MARSH m.04.01.1780 			Seaman
	d.26.04.1831, 75			d.22.08.1796, 41
	Stephen  		05.01.1781 				
	Thomas 			09.05.1783 
	Joseph			19.08.1785 	d.07.05.1821 age 35			
	Robert			12.11.1788 
	Ann			12.05.1790 d.16.03.1791
	Mary			27.04.1792 d.04.08.1792	
	William			16.08.1793 		m.Mary?
	Edmund			13.04.1796 			Unmarried d.1866 Ashford 

	HENRY COOK			&	ALICE EPPS m.27.11.1780
	Mary Ann Elizabeth	18.03.1781

	?? COOK				&	??
	James			     ~1778 Cheriton	m.Elizabeth Sinclair 14.12.1800 Cheriton

	??COOK				&	??
	John			     ~1784		m.Susanna Fagg 20.10.1807 Bonnington (b.1789) and m.18.10.1807 Folkestone

	WILLIAM COOK 			&	ELIZABETH MESSEE m.26.04.1785
						d.17.11.1826, 64
	William 		07.10.1785 Infirm
	Mary			28.10.1787 		m.John Abbott 28.08.1811
	John			01.02.1789		m.Sarah Eleanor Hunt 28.08.1812
	Richard	 		09.01.1791		m.Mary Young 26.12.1812 St Peter, Thanet		(Cheriton 1851)
	Stephen				d.06.06.1792   
	Susan	 		05.05.1793 
	Stephen  		20.09.1795 		m.Alice and/or Susannah E? (1871 census)
	Ann	 		05.08.1798 

	STEPHEN COOK 			&	MARY PAYER m.29.08.1786
	Zilah  (F)  	 	20.12.1786 

	JOHN COOK			&	MARY GREENLAND	m.08.10.1791			Seaman
	d.20.12.1842, 80
	Mary 			15.01.1792 	 	m.Jacob Minter
	Ann Wicker 		27.12.1793 	
	Sarah Greenland 	07.08.1796 		m.Thomas Goulder 21.01.1820
	Jane Critenden 		14.11.1798 		m.Henry Whittingham 01.03.1823
	John Greenland 		24.05.1801 d.24.07.1801
	John 	 		05.08.1803 
	Alexander Partridge 	26.06.1805 d.19.03.1810

	WILLIAM COOK 			&	MARTHA 
	Rose Hannah 		08.05.1796 

	WILLIAM COOK 1776, Rye		&	 ANN WILLIAMS	m.17.10.1796				Hairdresser
	Elizabeth Ann 		12.10.1798 
	Susan 	 		30.01.1801 		m.Abraham Andrews 05.06.1820 Hougham?
	Mary 	 		21.10.1803 	d.22.03.1804
	Jane 	 		10.02.1805 	d.22.09.1819 age 14
	Thomas 	 		18.05.1807 						unmarried Haidresser
	Rebecca Kennett 	25.08.1809 					d.20.12.1885 unmarried
	William Williams 	19.09.1812 		m.Jane Hood 1845	
	Mary Kennett 	 	17.11.1815 
	
	THOMAS COOK(Widower) 		&	2) SUSANNA CULLEN m.27.06.1798
	d.1831 Will				d.06.10.1832, 67
	Mary Ann		19.05.1802 
	Richard Cullen 		27.07.1804 

	SAMUEL BROWNING COOK 		&   ELIZABETH BARROW   m.29.04.1804        		Tannery 
	d.13.06.1854, 81
	Elizabeth		31.03.1805

	PETER COOK			&	SUSANNA	FOX m.06.04.1790 Cheriton
	Sarah			27.05.1804 Cheriton
	Peter			12.04.1807 Cheriton
	Stephen			09.09.1810 Cheriton

	JOHN COOK			&	ELIZABETH FORDERED m.03.10.1799 Cheriton
	Stephen			10.05.1805 Cheriton		m.Mary Ann				went to Petham
	William			17.05.1807 Cheriton
 
	JOHN COOK			&	SUSANNA FAGG m.20.10.1807 Bonnington 18.10.1807 Folkestone	Brick-maker, Mariner, THE SMUGGLER
	d.1822/3 on Cutter “Jane”		d.06.09.1848, 61
	Richard 		15.12.1807 		m.Susanna Major 12.04.1834
	John 	 		10.01.1810   d.30.10.1816 age 8
	Sarah			21.03.1813 		m.Richard Clark 10.01.1836 Lambeth St Mary
	William 		12.02.1815 		m.Sarah Ann Hall  15.08.1843
	Susanna			01.03.1818 		m.William Grimmet 14.12.1837
	Stephen 		01.06.1819 		m.Eleanor Baker m.10.12.1842	
	Mary 			30.04.1823 		m.Frederick Branchett 12.10.1847 Faversham 	d.1893 Boughton-under-Blean

	JOHN COOKE 			&	SARA ELEANOR HUNT m.25.08.1812
	John Richard 		25.08.1813 d.05.04.1814
	Mariana 		28.12.1814 
	
	WILLIAM COOK 			&	MARY
						d.03.08.1865
	Stephen 		19.05.1819 

	JOHN COOK (1794)		&	MARTHA READ(1795) m.16.08.1819			Seaman
	John Read 	 	22.05.1820 				d.13.07.1887, 67
	Susanna			18.12.1821 Vlissingen, Holland

	??? COOK			&	??
	William	Henry			1821		m.Ester Howell 1845
	
	???				&	SARA COOK		m.Stephen MacDonald?
	Sarah Macdonald 	21.11.1828 

	DAN COOK 			&	 SARAH
	Jane 	 		01.07.1829 d.06.02.1832, 3

	RICHARD COOK 1807		&	SUSANNA MAJOR	m.12.04.1834			Agricultural Labourer
	d.1883 Rochester, 76			d.1860 Rochester
	William 		30.11.1834 		m.Susannah Gilham 1855 to Bermondsey 1861
	Richard 	 	29.05.1839  bn.1837	d.15.08.1853
	John 	 		29.05.1839  bn.1839 d.17.11.1844
	Elizabeth A		15.07.1842
	John			28.12.1845		m.Annie Elizabeth Norman 1882 Rainham
	Mary Jane		08.08.1851  bn.1848  	d.1857 Rochester

	???	COOK			&	Mary Ann
	Mary Ann			1841

	WILLIAM COOK 1816  		&	SARAH ANN HALL   m.15.08.1843			Mariner, THE PREACHER
	d.22.09.1888, 72			d.17.07.1914, 95
	Mary A.				1843		m.Charles Philpott 10.09.1864 PHILPOTT FAMILY

	????? COOK			&	??
	Emily				1843

	STEPHEN COOK			&	ELEANOR BAKER 	m.10.12.1842			Mariner
	d.19.12.1897, 75			d.16.10.1897, 76	
	Mary Ann		19.01.1845 		m.William H Brookes 1873 went to London, St Pancras
	Susanna			28.02.1847		m.James Wrench 01.09.1869 Lillington, Warwickshire	d.03.11.1914 Solihull
	Sarah			08.02.1850		m.Francis Robert Care 1869		d.1931, 81
	Stephen			05.09.1853 d.12.03.1855
	Stephen			24.12.1855 		m.Sarah Ann Hughes 02.06.1877
	Eleanor			13.02.1859		m.Richard Smithard 1885 Brighton	d.1920, 61, Folkestone
	Jane			18.11.1862 		m.1)Charles Dixon 1886 Dover(d.06.11.1888) m.2)William Henry Stokes 1895(d.25.05.1917) d.23.10.1953 

	WILLIAM WILLIAMS COOK 1812	&	JANE HOOD m.1845				Green Grocer
	d.02.03.1891, 78			d.04.08.1894
	Jane			12.07.1846				unmarried
	William Henry		04.06.1848		m.Harriet Bridgeland 25.12.1870
	Elizabeth Ann		08.04.1851		m.William Cooper 17.03.1877
	Thomas			08.02.1854		m.Louisa Edwards 1883	went to London and Norfolk
	Susanna			05.03.1856				unmarried
	Francis Mary		13.02.1859 d.26.08.1860
	John			29.12.1861		m.Elizabeth Ann Tunbridge 21.11.1891
	Edward			07.05.1865		m.Emily R Howard 1892 Staines
	Albert Job		28.07.1867		m.Esther Day Ellen 1888

	WILLIAM HENRY COOK 1821		&	ESTER HOWELL m.1845 Dover
						d.1902, 74
	George				1846 Ewell
	Edward				1849 Alkham
	William				1851 Alkham
	Elizabeth 			1852 		m.Joseph Naylor
	Thomas James		04.06.1854
	Richard				1855		m.Harriet Jordan 09.11.1878
	Sarah Maria		24.03.1858 d.26.06.1864, 6
	Walter John		28.05.1861		m.Kate (Catherine) Taylor 1893
	Alfred Stephen		26.01.1861
	Arthur Harry		19.04.1863 d.26.08.1864
	John				1863
	
	WILLIAM COOK 1834		&	SUSANNAH GILHAM m.04.12.1855			Mariner
	d.1916 Essex				d.1918 Essex
	William Frederick	02.11.1856		m.Mary Jane Prescott 1882 Dover
	Emily Jane			1859 Bermondsey
	Henry George			1863		m.Beatrice Cordrey 22.03.1896 Bermondsey
	Maud Mary			1865 Bermondsey	m.Walter Collins 1907
	Ernest Gilham			1868		m.Catherine Buckham 1887 New South Wales
	Major Thomas			1870							d.1902 Greenwich
	Annie Susannah		13.04.1873 Bermondsey	m.George Francis Hart 01.12.1895 Camberwell
	Ernest Thomas		10.07.1877
	Thomas Lyons		10.07.1877
	Albert				1880

	WILLIAM G COOK			&	GRACE				from London
	d.26.06.1914				d.06.05.1915
	Charles				1863
	Grace				1868
	William G			1870		m.Catherine ~1891
	John Henry			1874		m.Ellen Maria Maker 1895 Dover
	James V				1875		m.Agnes Weller 1897

	GEORGE COOK			&	SUSANNAH
	Richard			09.09.1864
	
	THOMAS COOK 1836 Aldington	&	JANE FOSTER née Peal m.18.12.1878
	d.1906, 70				d.1899, 59
	Thomas(Foster)			1865					RN 1891 as Cook
	Robert John (Foster)		1868		m.Rose Sacree 1887
	William Thomas (Foster)		1872		m.Meriam Ada Joy 1897			All Married as Cook
	John Thomas (Foster)		1876		m.Christina Huntley Ralph 1895

	WILLIAM HENRY COOK 1848		&	HARRIET BRIDGELAND m.25.12.1870			Plumber
						d.17.08.1907
	Edith Lily			1874		m.Alfred John Funnell 22.12.1894
	Ellen Sarah			1876		m.George Hall 02.03.1902
	William				1879		m.Elsie Louise Beer 1909
	Percy				1882
	Edward Albert		01.06.1884

	??				&	MARY COOK
	James Alexander		11.09.1878
	John Horspool		11.09.1878

	RICHARD COOK 1856		&	HARRIET JORDAN m.09.11.1878 
	Charles Frederick	11.03.1879
	William George 		14.09.1880		m.Rose Petley 1907
	Sarah Elizabeth		30.04.1882
	Clara H				1885
	Edith F				1887
	Richard N			1890
	Amy Frances		17.01.1893		m.Charles Richard Cook 13.04.1914
	Charles			19.05.1896

	STEPHEN COOK 1855		&	SARAH ANN HUGHES m.02.06.1877			Mariner, THE LIFEBOATMAN
	d.28.11.1923, 69			d.29.03.1902, 43
	Stephen William		10.05.1878  		m.Jane E Dodge 1901
	Edith Mary		07.07.1880		m.Robert James Stokes 1901			d.1970
	William	Stephen		07.10.1882		m.1)m.Florence M Fisher 1902 m.2)Peg(Margaret Finn 1921?)
	Eleanor			06.08.1885		m.Reginald Riddalls 09.09.1907
	Charles Richard		08.07.1888		m.1)Amy Frances Cook 13.04.1914 2)Mary McMahon ~1926 Scotland
	Alfred			22.06.1891  		m.Beatrice Willis 1919 Lewisham	
	Sarah May		15.08.1894		m.1)Thomas Graham 1914 2)Bill Mason		went to Perth, Australia
	Wilfred Lewis		11.01.1899		m.Ethel Mountifield 1921

	JOHN COOK			&	EDITH
	Eva Mary		29.12.1878
	Edith Florence		21.12.1890	

	WILLIAM COOK 1854		&	ANNIE MARIA GILHAM m.27.03.1880
	Beatrice Annie		27.08.1880
	Edith Eugine		27.08.1880

	THOMAS COOK			&	SARAH J LYONS m.1873 Dover
	Sidney Thomas		13.09.1881

	JOHN COOK 1845			&	ANNIE ELIZABETH NORMAN m.1882 Rainham, Kent	Clay Digger
	Emma Susanna			1882 Rainham	m.Wardell James Daniels 1900 Rainham
	Rose				1884 Rainham	m.Charles Hammond Matthews 1903 Rainham
	Ethel				1885 Rainham	m.Oliver James Smith 1906 Rainham
	Arthur Arichibald N		1888 Rainham d.1909
	Albert			03.01.1890   Rainham
	Harry Sydney		05.04.1892   Rainham	m.Daisy A Pearce 1912 Rainham	d.14.03.1919 HMS Hermione
	Rupert John Victor	21.07.1897 d.06.06.1898, 1

	GEORGE JAMES COOK		&	MARY ANN
	Charles Thomas		12.10.1883

	GEORGE COOK			&	SOPHIA
	Mary Sophia		10.11.1883

	THOMAS COOK			&	LOUISA EDWARDS m.1883
	Annie Elizabeth		16.07.1884

	WILLIAM FREDERICK COOK		&	MARY JANE PRESCOTT m.1882 Dover
	Emily M				1884 Dover
	Nellie A			1888 London
	William G		xx.03.1891 Bermondsey

	ROBERT JOHN COOK 1868		&	ROSE SACREE or SACFREE m.1887			Mineral Water Manufacturer
	Robert T			1889
	Henrietta			1891
	Pansy R				1893 Hythe

	ALBERT JOB COOK			&	ESTHER DAY ELLEN m.1888				Decorator
	d.20.09.1944 Will
	Esther Ellen		14.08.1889		m.Robert Frederick Clark 09.04.1916
	Gertrude Alice		24.12.1890		m.Launcelot Mitchell 03.01.1918
	Albert William		22.01.1893
	Beatrice Ann		17.02.1895		m.Harold James Gowsell 09.12 1918
	Harold Edward		01.02.1898			d.28.05.1926, 28
	Constance May		24.03.1901		m.George Beardall 1931
	Hilda Elizabeth		18.09.1903
	Sydney			09.04.1908
	Leslie Charles		08.06.1910		m.Lilius E Dickenson 1933		d.1957

	WILLIAM GEORGE COOK 1870	&	CATHERINE	m.1889				Cycle Repairer
	Florence Beatrice		1891
	Edward Henry			1893

	HENRY COOK			&	SUSANNAH
	Lilian			15.09.1891
	
	EDWARD COOK 1865		&	EMILY ROSA HOWARD m.1892 Staines	m.2)Martha 1909		Carpenter and Joiner
						d.02.05.1905, 38
	Edward Alfred		05.04.1893
	William Charles		12.09.1894
	Lillian	Frances		22.07.1896			m.Robert Manktelow 1917
	Ethel Rose		19.07.1899
	Winifred Susannah	07.12.1900
	Frederick Albert	08.05.1910

	THOMAS COOK 1854		&	LOUISA EDWARDS m.1883 West Ham			Railway Bookstall Keeper
	Annie Elizabeth			1885 West Ham
	William Arthur			1886 West Ham
	Albert Edward			1888					Went to Canada
	George Frederick		1890 Walthamstow
	Charles Henry			1892 Colchester
	John Robert			1894 Colchester
	Marjorie Louise			1896 Ipswich
	Malcolm James			1898 Ipswich
	Edith May			1902 Norwich

	(WALTER) JOHN COOK		&	CATHERINE TAYLOR m.1893
	Elizabeth			1894 Cheriton
	John				1896 Cheriton

	JOHN THOMAS COOK 1876		&	CHRISTINA HUNTLEY RALPH m.1895 Thanet
	d.24.05.1905				d.04.05.1905
	Eva Christina			1896 Thanet		d.1908?
	John Thomas		06.03.1897
	George Ferguson			1899			d.WW1
	Dorothy Hilma		20.01.1905		m.Sidney Sales 1925

	HENRY GEORGE COOK 1863		&	BEATRICE L CORDREY m.22.03.1896 Bermondsey		Warehouseman
	Henry George			1897 Bermondsey
	Beatrice Maud			1890 Bermondsey
	Horace Walter			1893 Bermondsey
	Elsie Ada			1896 Bermondsey
	Mable Doris			1900 Bermondsey
	
	JAMES COOK 1876			&	AGNES WELLER m.1897				Stone Mason
	Dorothy				1898
	Violet				1903

	JOHN HENRY COOK 1874		&	ELLEN MARIA MAKEY m.1895 Dover			Builder
	Elsie Gertrude			1899 Dover
	Ethel Grace			1903 Dover
	John Henry			1905 Dover
	Marjorie Lena			1907 Dover
	Hilda Nellie			1910 Dover

	WILLIAM THOMAS COOK 1872	&	MIRIAM ADA JOY m.1897			Mineral Water Manufacturer
	Alice				1900

	FREDERICK WILLIAM COOK	1877	&	LILIAN					Mineral water Bottler		Not b.Folkestone
	Leslie Francis		13.05.1900
	Frederick William	03.09.1901
	Frank Horace		05.09.1905
	Gladys Lilian		22.05.1907

	GEORGE COOK			&	JANE
	Frank			14.09.1900

	JOHN COOK 1861			&	ELIZABETH ANN TUNBRIDGE m.1891
	d.09.09.1915, 53
	Horace John		05.06.1901

	STEPHEN WILLIAM COOK		&	JANE ELIZABETH DODGE m.1901			Shipwright
	d.21.01.1955, 76
	Stephen	Wilfred		04.06.1901 Charlton, Kent					Labourer	d.1961
	Alfred Edward		19.02.1903 Charlton, Kent							d.1920
	William	Thomas		bp.01.11.1904   Folkestone
	Jane Elizabeth		31.12.1906		m.Walter H Austen 1924					d.1988				
	Horace Leslie		13.12.1908		m.Hilda A A Thomas 1933					d.1983
	Annie E				1911		m.Sidney W Graves 1938			went to Stoneville WA Australia
	Alice Beatrice		11.06.1913		m.Frederick R Blackwell 1933				d.10.07.1962
	Leonard Joseph		12.11.1915							Sawyer		d.1985
	Lena Edith		12.04.1918		m.Jack V Steward 1937					d.1977
	Harold C		27.06.1920		m.Eileen J Edwards 1948 Folkestone			
	Doris Jane		08.08.1924		m.James W McCarty 16.03.1945 To Shelbyville, IN, USA 11.03.1946 on President Tyler d.30.11.1990

	WILLIAM COOK 1863		&	ALICE ELLEN COOK 1865 m.1905
	d.10.11.1928				d.26.10.1931
	Queenie Helena		27.08.1905		m.Albert C Boyd-Wallis 07.11.1931

	WILLIAM GEORGE COOK 1881	&	ROSE PETLEY m.1907
	George William			1908

	WILLIAM RICHARD HENRY COOK 1879	&	ELSIE LOUISE BEER m.1908			Jockey
	Queenie Beatrice	19.03.1909 Stowting, Kent
	Lena Gwendoline		30.12.1914		m.Leonard Bowser 1950

	WILLIAM STEPHEN COOK		&	1)FLORENCE MAUDE FISHER m.1903	2)MARGARET BOORNE FINN née CORNISH m.1921	Seaman
	d.1958, 76				d.18.11.1918			d.1967, 84 Folkestone
	Florence Lilian		02.02.1904		m.1)George A Bowbrick 1927	2)Joseph P Mainwaring 1942 Chepstow	d.1987 Milton Keynes
	Winifred May		30.08.1905   d.1905
	Doris Ivy		23.12.1907   d.1909
	Hilda Bessie		13.01.1909
	Wilfred Charles		10.01.1912   d.22.11.1918
	Queenie Dorothy			1914 d.28.06.1916
	Amy G			11.04.1915		m.Maurice C M Fifield 1936
	Rosa				1916 d.23.11.1918
	Norman A W			1924 d.1926

	CHARLES RICHARD COOK		&	1)AMY FRANCIS COOK m.1914	2)MARY MCMAHON			went to Scotland
	d.1951					d.30.11.1921, 28
	Dorothy Ellen			1915 d.10.10.1915 Folkestone, 3mo.
	Irene E				1916
	Mary Janet			1916 d.04.12.1916, 7mo.
	Joyce				1918
	Hilda Eileen			1920 d.21.03.1922, 18mo.

	ALFRED COOK			&	BEATRICE WILLIS m.1919
	d.1976
	Edna Beatrice		16.08.1920 Brentford					d.1999

	WILFRED LEWIS COOK		&	ETHEL MOUNTIFIELD m.1921			Chief Engineer Dover Lifeboat
	d.01.06.1973, Dover
	Molly L				1922
	Jeanne S		14.07.1925		m.Jim Heywood 13.05.1943 		d.06.10.2013

	CHARLES RICHARD COOK		&	2)MARY McMAHON
	d.1951					d.1943, 47
	Amy				1927		m.Theophilis Eede
	Eileen				1928			went to Canada
	Wilfred				1931		m.Georgina R Winter 1955
With thanks to Jill Steward for information on her family and Sue Macmillan for the link to Clarke.

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