Nathaniel COOK (1764-1780)

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Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • 13 Dec 1764

  • Mile End Old Town, Greater London, England, UK1

  • Baptism:

  • 8 Jan 1765 (age 26 dys)

  • St Dunstans Church, Stepney, Greater London, England, UK1

  • Occupation:

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  • Midshipman, Royal Navy2

  • Death:

  • 3 Oct 1780 (age 15)

  • off the Coast, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean2

  • Monument Inscription:

  • 3 Oct 1780 (age 15)

  • St Andrew the Great Church, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK3

Additional Information

  • Baptism:

  • son of James Cook, mariner, and Elizabeth Cook of Mile End Old Town

  • Death:

  • Cause: Drowned

    Lost!, aboard the 'THUNDERER' Man of War, Commanded by Boyle Wolsingham, in a most dreadful Hurricane.

Sources

1.

Parish Register for Baptism of Nathaniel Cook and son of James Cook,mariner, and Elizabeth Cook of Mile End Old Town, St Dunstans, Stepney, Greater London, England, UK, 8 January 1765.

2.

Walter Besant, 1892, Captain Cook, Macmillan & Co, p.188.

3.

Memorial Inscription for the Cook family at St Andrew the Great Church, Cambridge.