Family of John Cooke and Catherine Foot

  • Husband:

  • John Cooke (1740?- )

  • Wife:

  • Catherine Foot (1741?- )

  • Children:

  • Richard Foot Cooke (1769?-1855)

  • Marriage:

  • 18 Oct 1763

  • St. Benedict, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England1,2,3

  •  

  • Catherine aged 22 (difficult to trace these people as Cook is quite a common name and there are many John Cook(e)s. I wonder if the John Cooke who was buried in 1784/85 and Catherine in 1779 at Cambridge All Saints might be them, no basis for this other than names)

Husband: John Cooke

  • Name:

  • John Cooke1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1740 (est)

  •  

Wife: Catherine Foot

  • Name:

  • Catherine Foot1,2

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1741 (app)3

  •  

Child 1: Richard Foot Cooke

  • Name:

  • Richard Foot Cooke4,5,6,7,8

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary Norman (1771?-bef1841)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • farmer9

  • Birth:

  • 1769 (app)

  • Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, England4,5,9

  • Baptism:

  • 28 Feb 1769 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew the Less Church, Newmarket Road, Cambridgeshire, England4

  •  

  • son of John Cooke and Catherine (date given as 29 Feb 1769 but TMG will not accept this)

  • Miscellaneous:

  • Oct 1810

  •  

  •  

  • owned some land near Beck Row Green which was subject to the Mildenhall Enclosures

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 71-72)

  • Small Wood Green, Bradfield St. George, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • aged 70, living with a daughter, her husband, a grandnephew? and five grandchildren. Born in Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 81-82)

  • Freewood Street, Bradfield St. George, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • aged 84 widower, farmer in receipt of Parish Relief living with William Last and family. Born in Barnwell Suffolk

  • Death:

  • Feb 1855 (age 85-86)

  • Suffolk, England6,7,8

  • Burial:

  • 5 Feb 1855

  • St. George's Church, Church Road, Bradfield St. George, Suffolk, England7,8

  •  

  • aged 87 of Bradfield St. George

Sources

1.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Baptisms, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk).

2.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Marriages, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Boyd's Marriage Index.

3.

Church of the Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch, (www.familysearch.org). batch:I00489-0 sys:England-EASy film:1818377 ref:44.

4.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Baptisms, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Cambridgeshire Baptisms Transcription. Cit. Date: 19 July 2017.

5.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1036 book:6 folio:8 page:10.

6.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Thingoe 1855 quarter:1 volume:4a page:355.

7.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy).

8.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy).

9.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1791 folio:25 page:10.