Frederick William Cooke

Surname 'Cook' later 'Cooke'. Frederick William was the son of Frederick and Mary Cooke (née Dakin). His father Frederick Cook was born in Kegworth in 1858, the son of George and Emily Cook. He was baptised at Kegworth parish church on 3 April 1858. His mother Mary Dakin was born in Kegworth in 1855, the daughter of John Dakin and his wife Ann (née Staples). She was baptised at Kegworth parish church on 27 May 1855. Frederick Cook (19) and Mary Ann Dakin (21) were married at Kegworth parish church on 17 February 1877. According to the 1911 Census, Mary had had six children, one of whom had died. Five children had been born in Kegworth and baptised in the parish church: George birth registered 1878 (J/F/M) bap. 16 June 1878; John b. 1879 bap. 6 November 1879 d. 1909; Emma Annie birth registered 1882 (J/F/M) bap. 23 April 1882; Hannah Beatrice (Beatrice) b. 1886 bap. 25 April 1886 and Frederick William b. 1888 bap. 27 May 1888. The sixth child, Ernest, was born in Gotham in about 1892. In 1881 Frederick and Mary were living in Kegworth with their two sons, George (3) and John (1). By 1891 they had moved to Gotham where Frederick (33) was working as a plaster boiler (gypsum works). He and Mary now had five children: George, John, Emma (9), Beatrice (5) and Frederick (2). John died in 1909 aged 29. Mary Cooke was recorded living on Nottingham Road, Gotham, in 1901; she was married but head of household and working as a seamstress (own account). Also in the home on the night of the census were five of her six children: John a plaster labourer, Emma a domestic servant, Beatrice, Frederick and Ernest (9). Her eldest son George, a cement maker, had married and was living with his wife Mary (24) and their daughter Mary Elizabeth (3) at Hallam's Yard, Bag Lane, Gotham. Mary's husband, Frederick, has not yet been traced on the 1901 Census. In 1911 Frederick William, a labourer in rock plaster, and Ernest, described on the census as 'imbecile', were living on Kegworth Road, Gotham, with their mother Mary (55). The head of household was George Cooke (45 b. Kegworth), a miner in rock plaster. The handwriting on the census form is difficult to read, but it appeared to record that George and Mary had been married for 8 (possibly 18) years. However, no record has yet been found of the death of Mary's first husband nor of a second marriage. Also in 1911, George was also living on Kegworth Road, Gotham, with his wife and two children, Mary (13) and George (6), another child had died in infancy. Beatrice had married Marshall Gibson, a wagoner/horseman (plaster manufacturer), in 1907 and they were living in Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, with their daughter Beatrice Vera. Emma Annie has not yet been traced after 1901. Frederick William married Caroline (Carrie) Mellors (b. 1884) in 1916. The CWGC record gives his widow's addresss as Pleasant Place, Kegworth, Derby. Caroline has not been traced after this date.