James COOK [6926]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1850
Christening:
Death: 1873 - Kew, Vic, Australia ( aged about 23)
Burial:
Parents
Father: John COOK [6924] (Abt 1823-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1824-1886)
John COOK [6924]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1823 - , Gloucestershire, England
Christening: 30 Sep 1823 - Painswick, Gloucester, England 2510
Death: 1881 - Hamilton, Vic, Australia ( aged about 58)
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1 Jun 1824 - 1886)
Marriage: Abt 1848 - Geelong, Vic, Australia
Status:
Children:
1. James COOK [6926] (Abt 1850-1873)
2. Thomas COOK [6927] (Abt 1853- )
3. Richard COOK [6928] (Abt 1859- )
4. Mary Ann COOK [3736] (1861-1939)
5. William COOK [6963] (1863- )
6. Arthur COOK [6964] (1870-1935)
Lydia Kate COOK [10684]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1870 - Amherst, Vic, Australia 63
Christening:
Death: 1871 - Amherst, Vic, Australia ( at age 1) 62
Burial:
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10365] (Abt 1831-1923) 61,62,63,233
Mother: Elizabeth Jane TREBILCOCK [10355] (1839-1912) 61,62,63,233,1516,1859
Mary COOK [8496]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening: 11 Aug 1805 - Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England 2511
Death: 1869 - Kyneton, Vic, Australia ( at age 64) 2511
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Geoge PARSELL [8495] (21 Nov 1804 - 1876)
Marriage: 28 Jul 1828 - Chipping Barnet, Hertford, England 2512
Status:
Children:
1. William PARCELL 2512 [10814] (1829- )
2. John Alphonsus PARCELL 2512 [10815] (1831-1904)
3. Elizabeth PARCEL 2512 [10816] (1834- )
4. James Africane PARSELL [8491] (Abt 1837-1924)
5. Lydia PARSELL 2512 [10818] (1839-1839)
6. Thomas PARSELL 2511,2512 [10817] (Abt 1839- )
7. Mary Ann PARSELL 2512 [10819] (1843- )
8. Samuel PARSELL 2512 [10820] (Abt 1844- )
9. Sarah PARSELL 2512 [10821] (1846- )
Mary COOK [10013]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *George BLOOD [10012] ( - ) 1455
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Rose Amy BLOOD [9470] (1885-1940)
Mary Ann COOK [3736]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 14 Oct 1861 - Eumeralla, Vic, Australia
Christening:
Death: Aug 1939 - Nhill, Vic, Australia ( at age 77)
Burial: Aug 1939 - Nhill, Vic, Australia
Parents
Father: John COOK [6924] (Abt 1823-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1824-1886)
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Charlotte COOK CLARK [834] (1881-1947)
2. Ada May BEST [6929] (1884-1909)
3. Herbert Edward John BEST KELLY [6930] (1886-1938)
4. Thomas Arthur BEST KELLY [6931] (1888-1953)
5. Catherine Gladys May BEST [6932] (1890-1956)
6. William George BEST KELLY [6934] (1893-1955)
7. Rose BEST [6935] (1895-1902)
8. Mary Anne BEST [6937] (1898-1899)
9. Victoria May BEST [6938] (1900-1951)
10. John Joseph BEST KELLY [6941] (1902-1966)
11. Henry Percy BEST [6942] (1905-1908)
12. Sydney Harry BEST [6943] (1907-1907)
1. William BEST [6922] (Abt 1840 - 1912)
Marriage: 14 Nov 1881 - Sandford, Vic, Australia 1013
Status:
2. Edward George Wooley KELLY [6923] (Abt 1855 - 25 Dec 1925)
Marriage: 4 Jun 1910 - Bordertown, SA, Australia
Status:
Notes
General:
It would appear that Mary Ann had an illegitimate child in 1881, Charlotte. It is possible the father's name was John Clark, as this is the name that Charlotte gave on her marriage certificate as her own and her father. Later that year, 1881, Mary Ann married a widower, William Best, who was 40 years old at the time of the marriage and Mary Ann was 19. William's first wife, Virtue Williams had died in South Australia in about 1867.
Mary Ann had 11 children under the name of Best, but the father's name was never recorded on any of the births, so I suspect that the marriage to William Best may have been to legitimise her previous issue and that William may not have stayed around for long as Mary Ann's next child was born in 1884 with no father named.
I have found an obituary for Edward Kelly which states he arrived in Nhill in 1884 so it is possible that Edward Kelly was the father of most or all of these children. William Best seems to have died in Mt Gambier in 1912, however, Mary Ann married her second husband, Edward Kelly (appears as Edward George Wooley Kelly) at Bordertown, SA in 1910.
Children from Ada May down were baptised at Nhill with the surname of Kelly and the fathers name was given as Gustavus Adolphus William James Herbert Edward Kelly, or Edward Kelly. This would seem to prove that Edward Kelly was the biological father of the 11 children after Charlotte.
Mary Anne COOK [8247]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1829
Christening:
Death: 1912 - Murrumbeena, Vic, Australia ( aged about 83)
Burial:
Events
1. Alt. Birth: 1826, Tiverton, Devon, England.
Parents
Father: Robert COOK [8248] ( - )
Mother: Mary BABB [8249] ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *John STEER [8246] (Abt 1823 - 2 May 1876)
Marriage: 1871 - , Victoria, Australia
Status:
Marriage Events
1. Alt. Marriage: Apr 1852, Tiverton, Devon, England.
2. Alt. Marriage: Apr 1852, Tiverton, Devon, England.
Children:
1. Emma STEER [8245] (1855-1927)
Notes
General:
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 3 February 1912 page 13
STEER. - On the 1st February, at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Dunn, East Caulfield, Ann, relict of the late John Steer, late of Tooradin, aged 83 years and 5 months. A colonist of 60 years. Devon papers please copy. (Interred privately at Brighton.)
Michelle Elise COOK [1725]
Sex: F
Parents
Father: Russell John COOK [1604]
Mother: Pamela Kay McMILLAN [1603]
Spouses and Children
1. *Andre James SAMMUT [8200]
Children:
1. Noah Oliver SAMMUT [9656]
Paul Cameron COOK [1726]
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Russell John COOK [1604]
Mother: Pamela Kay McMILLAN [1603]
Philip Edward COOK [10681]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1881 - Coburg, Vic, Australia 63
Christening:
Death: 11 Apr 1917 - , , France ( at age 36) 2513
Burial: in Villers-Bretonneux, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France 2513
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10365] (Abt 1831-1923) 61,62,63,233
Mother: Elizabeth Jane TREBILCOCK [10355] (1839-1912) 61,62,63,233,1516,1859
Philip Halford COOK [10634]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1912 - Benalla, Vic, Australia
Christening:
Death: 4 Jan 1990 - ( at age 78)
Burial:
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10689] (1876-1923) 61,62,63
Mother: Elinor Violet May COOK [10633] (1877-1959) 61
Phyllis R COOK [13293]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1909
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Geoffrey Alfred WATTS [7692] (18 Feb 1909 - Apr 1978)
Marriage: Jan 1933 - Kettering, Northamptonshire, England 2514
Status:
Children:
1. Diana I WATTS [13356]
2. Pauline A WATTS [13958]
Richard COOK [6928]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1859
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Parents
Father: John COOK [6924] (Abt 1823-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1824-1886)
Richard Osborne COOK [10689]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1876 - Colac, Vic, Australia 62,63
Christening:
Death: 1923 - Coburg, Vic, Australia ( at age 47) 62
Burial:
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10365] (Abt 1831-1923) 61,62,63,233
Mother: Elizabeth Jane TREBILCOCK [10355] (1839-1912) 61,62,63,233,1516,1859
Spouses and Children
1. *Elinor Violet May COOK [10633] (26 Aug 1877 - 27 Jun 1959) 61
Marriage: 15 Apr 1904 - Suva, Central Fiji, Fiji
Status:
Children:
1. Alice Jean Viti COOK 61 [10635] (1905-2013)
2. Charles Osborne Leigh COOK 61 [10637] (1907-1996)
3. William Glanville COOK 61 [10636] (1910-1983)
4. Philip Halford COOK 61 [10634] (1912-1990)
Richard Osborne COOK [10365]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1831 - , Cornwall, England 62
Christening:
Death: 1923 - Richmond, Victoria, Australia ( aged about 92) 62
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Jane TREBILCOCK [10355] (1839 - 14 Aug 1912) 61,62,63,233,1516,1859
Marriage: 28 Jul 1863 - Forth, Tasmania, Australia
Status:
Children:
1. Emmeline Sophia COOK 61,62,63,2506 [10685] (1864-1877)
2. Elizabeth Jean COOK 61,63,2506 [10688] (1866-1959)
3. William Thomas Glanville COOK 61,62,63,233,2506 [10683] (1868-1945)
4. Lydia Kate COOK 61,62,63 [10684] (1870-1871)
5. Ellen Matilda COOK 61,62,63 [10686] (1873-1902)
6. Annie Louisa COOK 61,62,63 [10687] (1874-1962)
7. Richard Osborne COOK 61,62,63 [10689] (1876-1923)
8. Ethel Ada COOK 61,62,63 [10682] (1878-1957)
9. Philip Edward COOK 61,63,2513 [10681] (1881-1917)
Robert COOK [8248]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary BABB [8249] ( - )
Marriage: 4 Apr 1821 - Saint Sidwell, Exeter, Devon, England 471
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Anne COOK [8247] (Abt 1829-1912)
Russell John COOK [1604]
Sex: M
Spouses and Children
1. *Pamela Kay McMILLAN [1603]
Children:
1. Michelle Elise COOK [1725]
2. Paul Cameron COOK [1726]
Thomas COOK [6927]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1853
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Parents
Father: John COOK [6924] (Abt 1823-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1824-1886)
William COOK [6963]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1863 - McArthur, Vic, Australia
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Parents
Father: John COOK [6924] (Abt 1823-1881)
Mother: Charlotte Mary PUGH [6925] (1824-1886)
Notes
General:
Father John Cook, mother said to be Charlotte Jackson.
William COOK [7556]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. William COOK 1083 [7555] (Abt 1825- )
William COOK [7555]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1825 - , Bedfordshire, England 1083
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Parents
Father: William COOK [7556] ( - ) 1083
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca BLACKWELL [1480] (1830 - 27 Oct 1852)
Marriage: 24 Dec 1847 - Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England 1083
Status:
Notes
General:
William's father was said to be a brewer.
William Glanville COOK [10636]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1910 - , , Fiji
Christening:
Death: 1983 - , Victoria, Australia ( at age 73)
Burial:
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10689] (1876-1923) 61,62,63
Mother: Elinor Violet May COOK [10633] (1877-1959) 61
William Thomas Glanville COOK [10683]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1 May 1868 - New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia 62,63,233,2506
Christening:
Death: 1945 - Richmond, Victoria, Australia ( at age 77) 62
Burial:
Events
1. Residence: , Tasmania, Australia.
2. Baptism: 8 Jun 1868, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia.
Parents
Father: Richard Osborne COOK [10365] (Abt 1831-1923) 61,62,63,233
Mother: Elizabeth Jane TREBILCOCK [10355] (1839-1912) 61,62,63,233,1516,1859
Charlotte COOK CLARK [834]
Sex: F
AKA: Charlotte CLARK,
Charlotte COOK
Individual Information
Birth Date: 26 Oct 1881 - Sandford, Vic, Australia 2515,2516
Christening:
Death: 7 Mar 1947 - Nhill, Vic, Australia ( at age 65) 2517
Burial: 9 Mar 1947 - Nhill, Vic, Australia
Parents
Father:
Mother: Mary Ann COOK [3736] (1861-1939)
Spouses and Children
1. *Daniel George SULLIVAN [833] (15 Dec 1873 - 24 Apr 1917)
Marriage: 16 Jul 1906 - Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 2518
Status:
Children:
1. Clarence SULLIVAN 2 [930] (1903-1903)
2. Daniel SULLIVAN [931] (1904-1970)
3. Mary SULLIVAN [933] (1907-1994)
4. Hughina Mabel SULLIVAN [932] (1909-1944)
5. Katherine May SULLIVAN [934] (1913-1999)
6. Edward Michael SULLIVAN 2 [935] (1915-1915)
7. Ada Lenore SULLIVAN [3739] (1916-1987)
Notes
General:
The descendants were told her name was Charlotte Kelly. Marriage certificate states her name as Charlotte Clark and her parents as John Clark and Mary Cook her husband's death certificate also has her named as Charlotte Clark. Her daughter Mary O'Connor was the informant on Charlotte's death certificate and gives Charlottes parent's names as Edward Kelly and Mary Cook.
Charlotte was born in October 1881 and in November 1881 her mother aged 19 years, married a 40 year old widower named William Best. It would appear that this marriage was short lived. In 1884 Charlotte's mother had the next of her additional 11 children. All of those children were registered at birth with the surname of Best, however the fathers name was always listed as unknown. William Best died in South Australia in 1912 and Charlotte's mother married Edward Kelly in 1910 in Bordertown, SA. On the marriages that I have found of the Best siblings, the females were married under the name Best, but the males all married under the name of Kelly and all the deaths that I have found of the Best siblings have died with the surname of Kelly and with Edward Kelly named as their father.
I have found an obituary for Edward Kelly which states he arrived in Nhill in 1884 so it is possible that Edward Kelly was the father of Charlottes 11 siblings.
Frances Enos COOKE [9118]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1885 - Coleraine, Vic, Australia
Christening:
Death: 1945 - Parkville, Vic, Australia ( aged about 60)
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Kate FISHER [9117] (1882 - 1957)
Marriage: 1911 - , Victoria, Australia 2519
Status:
Julia K COOKE [14002]
Sex: F
Spouses and Children
1. *William J WHITTLE [13997]Stanley G COOKE [7772]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Gwenneth Emma SHERWOOD [7769] (11 Nov 1910 - Jul 2003)
Marriage: Jun 1940 - Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England
Status:
Charlotte COOPER [13170]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1826 - Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England
Christening:
Death: 1895 - Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England ( at age 69)
Burial: 3 Dec 1895 - Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, England 2520
Spouses and Children
1. *Ebenezer BLACKWELL [13142] (31 May 1833 - 1905)
Marriage: 1854 - Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England 1197
Status:
Children:
1. Francis BLACKWELL [13190] (1856-1921)
Elizabeth COOPER [11666]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1732 - Chelston, , England 1466
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *William BODDINGTON [11665] (Abt 1732 - ) 1466
Marriage: 10 Oct 1752 - Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England 1469
Status:
Children:
1. Robert BODDINGTON 1465 [11609] (1756-1798)
Harold James COOPER [10045]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1888
Christening:
Death: 1961 - ( at age 73)
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ellen Catherine COUBROUGH [4409] (16 Jan 1890 - 1943) 2521
Marriage: 1910 - Perth, WA, Australia 2522
Status:
Julia Mary COOPER [11893]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 12 Aug 1900 - Mulwalla, N.S.W., Aust 2523
Christening:
Death: 2 Jun 1981 - Brisbane, Qld, Australia ( at age 80) 2523
Burial: 4 Jun 1981 - Mt.Thompson Crem, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2523
Spouses and Children
1. *Alexander Claude McINTOSH [5460] (1897 - 1958)
Marriage: 23 Sep 1919 - Albury, NSW, Australia 2523
Status:
Robert Benjamin COOPER [3188]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1866 - Hexham, Victoria, Australia 2524
Christening:
Death: 1945 - Fitzroy North , Victoria, Australia ( at age 79) 2524
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rose Ann Julia REMINGTON [3187] (31 Jul 1877 - 1955)
Marriage: 1897 - Murrumburrah, NSW, Australia
Status:
Susannah COOPER [5010]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *John STEPHENSON [5009] ( - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Eliza STEPHENSON [3361] (1882-1970)
Winton COOPER [12323]
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1907 - Clunes, Vic, Australia
Christening:
Death: 1981 - Footscray, Vic, Australia ( at age 74) 2525
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rosa Ellen JACKSON [9233] (21 Jul 1915 - 2005) 202
Marriage: Abt 1971
Status:
Sarah Elizabeth COPELAND [12263]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1895
Christening:
Death: 1975 - ( at age 80)
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Arthur Thomas BARCLAY [9792] (1887 - 1959) 665
Marriage: 1929 - Sydney, NSW, Australia 670
Status:
Children:
1. William Arthur BARCLAY [12264] (1930-2020)
Stella COPPELL [10791]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date:
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *George Archibald STANDING [10787] (9 Apr 1902 - 1930) 2527
Marriage:
Status:
Harold Edward COPPOCK [12506]
Sex: M
AKA: Ted COPPOCK
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1883 - , , New Zealand
Christening:
Death: 1966 - South Yarra, Victoria, Australia ( at age 83) 2528
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Eva Mary REYNOLDS [1542] (21 Jun 1895 - 27 Feb 1973)
Marriage: 1927 - , Victoria, Australia 2529
Status:
Notes
General:
Ted's first wife was Hannah Amy Moore. Hannah and Ted had 2 sons, Harold Ellis and Colin. Hannah committed suicide in 1925.
Simon G COPSON [14054]
Sex: M
Spouses and Children
1. *Julia L MARIS [14052]Charles Henry Burgess CORAM [12835]
Sex: M
Spouses and Children
1. *Doris Annie DANIEL [12836]
Children:
1. Valda June CORAM 2530 [853] (Cir 1928- )
Valda June CORAM [853]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Cir 1928 - Preston, Vic, Australia 2530
Christening:
Death:
Burial:
Parents
Father: Charles Henry Burgess CORAM [12835]
Mother: Doris Annie DANIEL [12836]
Spouses and Children
1. *Albert James SULLIVAN [852] (23 Apr 1924 - 28 Mar 1993) 2366
Marriage: 12 Sep 1947 - Thornbury, Vic, Australia 2530,2531
Status: Divorced
Notes
General:
divorced