The Cook Family
Ellen Jane Cook was born in 1853,
one of 11 children of Robert Hans Cook and his wife Mary Ann McGrath.
Mary
Ann Cook (1840-1911) Elizabeth Cook (1840-)
Robert Hans Cook (1841-1871)
John Cook (1842-1842)
Susannah Phoebe Cook (1844-1930)
Emily Elizabeth Cook (1845-)
James Frederick Cook (1846-1931)
Joseph Cook (1849-1923)
Sabina Winifreda Cook (1853-1931)
Ellen Jane Cook (1855-1930)
George Samuel Cook (1864-1909)
John Ernest Cook (1868-1942)
Of interest is the sister of
Ellen, was named Sabina Winifreda Cook, she married and had a daughter of who
she named Sabina Winifreda Smith. Ellen
had a daughter and also called her Sabina.
Not a great deal had been learnt
about Robert Hans Cook, however that was not surprising.
Robert was born Robert Cook
Hands, born 24th January 1809 and baptised on March 12th, at Studley in
Birmingham, and as the record indicates he was the illegitimate son of Phebe
Hands.
His mother, Phebe Hands, was the
daughter of Benjamin Hands 1762 - 1826 and Elizabeth (Betty) Cook 1764 -
1790. Birmingham was their home.
Benjamin Hands was the son of
John Hands and his wife Sarah (Eller) born around 1725. Phoebe was a family name in the Hands
lineage.
24th
September 1753 marriage St Phillips Birmingham
There is also reference to the Aston Juxta
Parish at Birmingham, this is the church, and a description of the area. 
One of only 2 churches in the Birmingham area referred to in the Domesday survey, the church is in Witton Lane Aston.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul Aston Juxta Birmingham is an ancient parish of Birmingham in the hundred of Hemlingford, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, on the outskirts of Birmingham that was divided into some 15 or so smaller parishes in the 19th century. Castle Bromwich and Erdington are chapelries of Aston juxta Birmingham. Other places within the parish are: Asted, Bromwich, Deritend, Witton, Washwood, Water Orton, and Little Bromwich.
Ann's father was in the Military,
before coming to Australia.
Phoebe may have married in 1820,
to a Thomas Cooper, as there is a marriage record noted at Aston Juxa for a
Phebe Hand. Robert emigrated to
Australia.
Now there are several
possibilities, either with a free passage, in chains, or by his own means. There were some prisoners of the same name,
but they did not apply. However Mr
Robert Hand arrived in 1833. Given the
later references to Robert, that arrival would fit his ongoing lifestyle.
Robert Hans Cook died in 1886, and his
daughter was Susannah who married George William Forster.
The Hans and Cook were often
incorrectly applied, but not something that was uncommon in the pioneering days
of Australia.
His life after arriving in Australia
became interesting, and where he lived can be gleaned from the different
newspaper accounts of his activities, and having some understanding of the
happenings of the time.
Robert married
in Sydney in1836, Mary Ann Mc Grath.
Mary Ann was aged 17 and Robert would have been 27. 183/1836 V1836183. They proceeded to have a family of 11 children.
His name is now
recorded as Robert Hans Cook.
They also used
the English naming pattern with the children's names.
Mary Ann their
first born was born on 29th February 1840, and baptised at St Phillips Sydney.
She married a John H. Mowra. She died
1911 and is buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery.
Robert Hans Cook was born 21st June 1841, in Sydney, and
baptised at St Phillips.
In 1866 a Robert
Cook was arrested for stealing at Maitland and served two months in the
Maitland Jail. A Robert Cook aged
57 died in 1872, and is buried at Hiland Crescent Cemetery in Tenabit Maitland,
mother Mary Ann and father Robert Cook.
This could not be Robert born in 1841.
John Cook was born in 1842 and died
in 1842.
Susannah Phoebe
Cook was born 13 May 1844 and baptised
She married George William Foster 1841 - 1904 in 1861. She died in 1930.
Emily Elizabeth Cook was born 6th
February 1845 and baptised at the Holy Trinity Church Sydney 23rd February
1845.
James Frederick Cook was born
1846. He married Kate Augusta
Seymour 1849 - 1925. He died in 1931 and is buried at Woronora
Cemetery
Joseph Cook was born 1848 and died 18
July 1923, and is buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery.
Sabina Winifreda Cook was born in 1853
and baptised at St James in Cumberland 22nd September 1853. and she married
Thomas Smith 1850 - 1929 in 1872. She died in 1931
Ellen Jane Cook was born in 1855 and
baptised at St James in Cumberland 2nd December 1855.
John Ernest Cook was born 1867 at Glebe
and married Edna Bradley 1876 - 1925, in 1899. He died in 1945 at
Bankstown. He married Edna in the
Church of St Paul, Anglican Church.
Interesting her nominated his father as a farmer, that may have been his belief, however the family were Catholic.
Interesting her nominated his father as a farmer, that may have been his belief, however the family were Catholic.
George Samuel Cook was born 1867 and
died in 1909 and is buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery.
George
Samuel Cook, fourth son of the late Robert Hans Cook and Mary Ann Cook died
1909 aged 42. Born 1867, his death was
in the newspaper
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Mary Ann Mc Grath was the daughter of
James Mc Grath and Susannah Thorne. She
died in 5th January 1914, at the Newington Asylum, and is buried at Rookwood
Cemetery Catholic Section in Sydney.
“Parramatta Hospital for the
Insane”, Destruction of 'Female Factory' buildings,
By 1892 the buildings were already over-crowded and in 1903 the additions made to No. 4 Ward were completed at a cost of 2703 pounds along with extensions to the laundry. The removal of the old entrance gates around 1909 saw the central complex of the Asylum opened up and the new visiting and office block which replaced them was completed in 1910. The staff dining room and kitchen were completed in the same year[1]
Her granddaughter Kerrie has taken a
photo of the grave, it has no headstone.
Grave number 622
In 1841, Mr Robert Hanscook, of George and
Dragon a Pub in Haymarket Sydney was involved in the application for the
Manchester Unity Lodge, to be called "The Fountain of Friendship Lodge"
The Manchester Unity Friendly Society
was an institution in Australia, for years, and was only disbanded in the past
20 years. They sold funeral plans,
something that was purchased for a few dollars a year. If you didn't use it, its value increased. We ourselves hold one of these plans, mind
you today's costs would far exceed any expectations of 45 years ago.
The Fountain of Friendship Lodge exists
today all over the world, but particularly in New Zealand.
The history can be found at the
following link
During
December 1841 deputies were appointed to attend the formation of the
Sydney District, which took place in the George and Dragon Inn in George Street
on 10th March 1842. An old minute book of the Fountain of Friendship
Lodge at Parramatta records a resolution: “
“
that there is no necessity for any delegates to go to Sydney (from Parramatta –
24km) to attend the District meeting as they will be agreeable to any laws put
in force”
At
the time of the first “Grand Annual District Meeting” held on 28 December 1842
there were five Lodges represented; Strangers Refuge, the
(Parramatta) Fountain of Friendship. Friendship, United Brothers, Union
and fountain of Refuge.
In 1842
he was registered on the rolls for Phillip Ward, living in George Street Sydney
In
1843 he was in a concert.
In 1843, he and his wife had family differences, and the story was
played out for all to read in the newspapers.
Family Differences. — It
sometimes happens that domestic squabbles are brought before tho Police Office
for adjustment, and the exposures which are consequently made of connubial
secrets, and the rugged course of married life which these cases disclose, are
not such as to tempt any bachelor to exchange his state of single blessedness
for the yoke of Hymen. On Friday last, a case of this description came before
the Police Court, in which Mary Ann Cook was 'the plaintiff, and Robert Hans
Cook, a publican, residing; near the Cattle Market, her husband, the defendant.
The lady claimed to be allowed a separate maintenance, because, as she alleged,
her husband had used her most unmanly, having frequently beat her, and at last
turned her out of doors. Mr. Cook, in his defence, imputed certain practices to
the plaintiff, better honoured in the 'breach than the observance, .and which,
in a married lady, particularly are calculated to engender in the mind of the
unfortunate husband, feelings of the most painful kind.
To this accusation the plaintiff
replied, that the defendant could bring no proof, upon -which he pointed to a
rosy faced gentleman in the crowd, who was gaping with open mouth on the scene,
as the person to whom the plaintiff had transferred the allegiance which she
exclusively owed to him. After a great
deal of wrangling and mutual recriminations between the parties, their 'Worships closed the disgraceful exhibition by
adjudging tho defendant to allow the plaintiff a separate maintenance of 30s.
per-week, to continue for six months, at the end of which period, it would be seen
how the parties stood affected towards each other. Against this judgment, the defendant
stated his intention of appealing to the Quarter Sessions.
By 1845
there had been established St John's (Newtown), Wandering Minstrel
and Rose of Australia. Wandering Minstrel was a unique lodge formed by a
number of actors, often on the road and not available to attend all meetings of
a lodge.
The George and Dragon 1841, another was the Steam Engine Pub.
In 1843 the Pub was the Old Fellow Hall in George Street Sydney
The Licence in 1844 at Parramatta
In 1852, he held the freehold on a building in Five Dock.
In 1853 he held the licence for the "Crown Inn" in Elizabeth
Street Sydney
In 1844 he was on a jury.
His name on the Electoral rolls in 1850/51 was Robert Hanscook
In 1863 he was listed as a Dealer living at 169 Parramatta Street Sydney
There was a death record for a Robert Hanscook in the Liverpool Asylum, who was admitted in 1874. This same person arrived on the ship "Edward", and died in the Asylum. This was the very same Robert Hans Cook. So did he come as a convict? or as an official?
Convict Ship Edward 1829
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Embarked: 177 women Voyage: 115 days Deaths 3 Surgeon's Journal - yes Previous vessel: Mellish arrived 18 April 1829 Next vessel: Lord Melville arrived 3 May 1829 Captain James Gilbert Surgeon Superintendent William Conborough Watt Follow the Female Convict Ship Trail Follow the Irish Convict Ship Trail Descendant Contributions Convicts and passengers of the Edward identified in the Hunter Valley |
The Edward
was built at Bristol in 1806.[5] Prisoners were transported to New South Wales
on the Edward in 1829, 1831 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1834.
However there was a Robert Cook as an
official in the Musters of Sydney in 1837.To arrive in 1829 as a prisoner, and then to married 7 years later could have happened, but he would have required a Pardon and Permission to Marry. To arrive as an official that would not be required.
To be able to pay for the pub licence, indicates he must have had the capacity. £30 for a convict would be an enormous amount.
His great granddaughter managed to secure some further details.
"A
Robert Cooke that was a member of the 17th Reg that arrived in
Sydney 22 Feb 1831 per “Edward”. !
In an article written about Mary
Ann’s brother, Frederick, it stated that soon after arriving in Sydney his
father was sent to Bathurst area with the 17th and returned about
1835 to Sydney.
Kerri purchased the death
certificate:
Upon ordering the certificate I
realized that I had found him and confirmed the theory of him being in the 17th
Regiment. The certificate states arrived
per Edward approx. in 1839 (a bit out), unknown parents, wife or children. He died in Liverpool Asylum of senile catarrh
on 4th July 1875 and buried in Liverpool."
His wife was the beneficiary of
his estate.
The Liverpool Asylum where he was
admitted and died.
His daughter Susannah was the
only one mentioned in memoriams for him.
The McGrath Family
His wife Mary Ann Cook died in 1914, it
was mentioned she was 83 years in the colony.
Mary Ann McGrath was the daughter of
James McGrath and Susannah Thorne. They
were married at Kensington in London in 1819, and he appeared to be posted to
Ireland, where their first child was born.
It
is an Anglican Church
He was serving with the 78th Foot which
was posted to Australia in 1830.
The eldest daughter Jane was born in
Ireland when he was on service with the 78th Foot.
Jane
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McGrath
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Sex
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Female
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Birth year
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1819
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Place
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Strokestown
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Country
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Ireland
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Type
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Armed
Forces
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Regiment
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78th
Foot
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Archive
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General
Register Office
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Source
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Gro
Regimental Birth Indices (1761 To 1924)
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There were also James McGraths in
the following units
1813
31st and 70th Foot East Surrey and then discharged He was born in 1794 in St Catherine Parish
Dublin
1810 18th Royal Regiment of Foot
born 1793 This one was born at Maryborough Ireland
The family arrived on the Red Rover which sailed in 1830 and arrived in
1831.
For years Susannah McGrath was involved with bail arrangements at the
Court.
Camperdown Cemetery Susan McGrath On the
11th instant, at her late residence,
Pitt-street
North, Mrs. Susannah McGrath, (daughter of Mr. F. Thorne, of Fivefields, England),
in the 60th year of her age, after a lingering illness, much regretted by all
who knew her.
James died
in 1866.
He was buried at the Davenport
Cemetery, which was later closed.
Her father Frederick Thorne may
have been a Marine, or Frederick William Thorne who became a Major in the 60th
Foot in 1819. Frederick William Thorne died in Essex in
1849,
In 1820, Governor Macquarie ordered the consecration of the Devonshire Street Cemetery. A brick wall was erected before any interments took place to enclose its 4 acres (1.6 hectares). Within a four-year period the cemetery was expanded by the addition of 7 acres (2.8 hectares) to its south. A road was formed along the southern boundary of the cemetery in the first half of the 1830s and was called Devonshire Street. The Devonshire Street Cemetery, where many of the early settlers were buried, was later moved to build the Sydney railway terminus.
[1]
http://arc.parracity.nsw.gov.au/blog/2015/08/07/parramatta-hospital-for-the-insane-destruction-of-female-factory-buildings-cumberland-hospital-1878-1983/
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