Family of John COOKE and Jean DUNCANE

  • Husband:

  • John COOKE (c. 1666- )

  • Wife:

  • Jean DUNCANE (c. 1666- )

  • Children:

  • James COOK (1695-1779)

  • Marriage:

  • 19 Jan 1693

  • Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK1

  •  

  • by Thomas Thomson, Minister on 24 December 1692, John Cook, in this parish and Jean Duncan, in the parish of Smaillholm, gave up their names for proclamation in order to marry.

    A certificate produced of her good behavior, John Cook and Jean Duncan were married. Verified by Rev. John Burleigh, Minister of Ednam.

Husband: John COOKE

James COOK Jean DUNCANE Mini tree diagram

  • Name:

  • John COOKE

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1666

  • Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

  • Occupation:

  • 1692 (age 25-26)

  • Elder of the Kirk, Ednam Parish, Scotland; The Kirk, Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK2

  • Death:

  •  

  • Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

Wife: Jean DUNCANE

James DUNCAN John COOKE James COOK Mini tree diagram

  • Name:

  • Jean DUNCANE

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • James DUNCAN ( - )

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  • Her Surname is noted as "Jean Duncane" in the Parish Register Baptism records

  • Birth:

  • c. 1666

  • Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

  • Baptism:

  • 24 Apr 1666 (age 0)

  • Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

  • Death:

  • "DECEASED"

  • Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

Child 1: James COOK

  • Name:

  • James COOK

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Grace PACE (1702-1765)

  • Birth:

  • 1695

  • Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

  • Baptism:

  • 4 Mar 1694/95 (age 0)

  • Parish Church, Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK

  •  

  • son of John Cook

  • Occupation:

  • 1736 (age 40-41)

  • Hind/Bailiff at Airyholme Farm, Great Ayton3

  • Witness:

  • 4 Sep 1764 (age 68-69)

  • James COOK witnessed the marriage of James FLECK and Margaret COOK on 4 September 1764 in All Saints Church, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England, UK

  • Death:

  • 1779 (age 85)

  • Redcar, North Yorkshire, England, UK

  • Burial:

  • 1 Apr 1779

  • Churchyard of St Germains & St Marks, Marske by the Sea, North Yorkshire, England, UK4

  •  

  • His body lies in the Churchyard without a stone to mark the spot.

    John James Robinson Jnr. of Blenavon House, lost at sea 9 Sep. 1904 aged 22. Erected by his parents to mark the spot where James Cook, father of Captain Cook R.N. the circumnavigator, was buried 1st April 1779

Sources

1.

Scottish Church Records. General Register Office (Edinburgh).

2.

in Alnwick Mercury, 3, 2 January 1860.

From the Ednam Parish Registers of 1692:

"John Cuke, Elder of the Parish"

3.

Cliff Thornton, 2006, Captain Cook in Cleveland, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 17.

"Cook came home from the hiring having secured the position of hind at Aireyholme Farm, Great Ayton"

4.

Cleveland FHS. Ancestry Co. UK.

Gravestone:

Sacred to the Memory

of John James Robinson Jnr

of Blenavon House

who was lost at Sea Sept 9th

1904. Aged 22 years.

 

This stone was reected by his

Father & Mother to mark

te spot where James Cook,

father of Captain Cook R.N.

the Circumnavigator was buried.

Apl 1st 1779