Elizabeth Absalom [Cook] (1796-1864)

Dates

Birth: 29 March 1796 Earsdon or 1797 South Blyth, Northumberland, UK
Father: James Absalom 1764-a1804
Mother: Elizabeth Hudson 1762-1832

Christening: 3 May 1797 in Earsdon or 13 May 1797 in South Blyth, Northumberland, UK

Marriage 31 December 1823 Earsdon, Northumberland, UK
Husband: Ralph Cook 1798-1862

Death: 1864 Tynemouth, Northumberland, UK

Children

Sarah Cook c1832-a1851
Ralph Cook c1835-a1871

Notes

Entry in the IGI for the birth of Elizabeth Absalom on 29 March 1796 and christening on 3 May 1797 at Earsdon By North Shields, parents James Absalom and Elizabeth Hudson.

Entry in the Ancestral File for the birth of Elizabeth Absalom in 1797 and her christening on 13 (sic) May 1797 in in South Blyth, Northumberland, parents James Jr. Absalom and Elizabeth Hudson, and her marriage to Ralph Cook (born about 1793 in South Blyth) but no date or location.

Entry in FamilyHistoryOnline Northumberland Baptisms for Elizabeth Absalom born on 29 March 1796, parents James (a sailor) and Elizabeth (maiden name Hudson), and her christening on 3 May 1797 in Blyth, Earsdon.

Entry in GenUKI for the marriage of Elizabeth Absalom and Ralph Cook on 31 December 1823 in Earsdon, Northumberland.

Entry in FamilyHistoryOnline Northumberland Marriages for Elizabeth Absalom and Ralph Cook on 31 December 1823 at Earsdon.

In the 1841 census as Elizabeth Cook aged 40 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Northumberland and living with Ralph (husband?), Ralph (son?) and Sarah (daughter?) at North Pit Houses, Cowpen, Horton, Northumberland.

In the 1851 census as Elizabeth Cook aged 55, born in Earsdon and living with her husband (Ralph), son (Ralph), daughter (Sarah) and brother (James Absalom) in Cowpen Square, Cowpen, Northumberland.

In the 1861 census as Elizabeth Cook aged 64, born in Earsdon, and living with her husband (Ralph) and son (Ralph) in Cowpen Square, Cowpen, Northumberland.

Her husband died in 1862.

There are two possible entries in FreeBMD for the death of Elizabeth Cook in April-June 1864 in Tynemouth (10b 82) and October-December 1864 in Tynemouth (10b 128).

South Blyth is about 4 miles north of Earsdon, north east of Newcastle, Cowpen is 2 miles NW of Blyth.

Relationship

Elizabeth Absalom was the great grand aunt of Susannah Emily Absalom, the wife of George Fullick, my third cousin twice removed.

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