Birth: Circa 1833 Southrepps, Norfolk, UK
Father: William Cooke c1810-1892
Mother: Mary Ann Neave c1810-1885
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1 October 1854 St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Southwark, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Framingham c1830-1900
Death: 14 December 1884 10 Gun Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Burial: 19 December 1884 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Harriet Elizabeth Cooke [Hunter] 1856-1897
William James Cooke 1858
Elizabeth Alice Cooke 1859
Anna Maria Cooke [Harner] 1861-1901
Florence Mary Cooke [James] 1863-1905
Henry William Cooke (Cook) 1864-1921
John H Cook (Cooke) 1866-1866
Alice Eliza Cooke (Cook) [Dare] 1868-1919
John Henry Cooke 1869-a1895
Mary Ann Cooke 1871-1886
Arthur George Cooke (Cook) 1873
In the 1841 census as William Cook aged 9, born in Norfolk and living with William and Mary Cook (parents?), George (brother?) and Anna, Anna (Anne?) and Mary (sisters?) in North Repps, Norfolk
In the 1851 census as William Cooke aged 18, born in Southrepps, Norfolk, single, a blacksmith apprentice and lodging with William Middleton (aged 42, born in Cromer, Norfolk, and a blacksmith employing one journeyman and two apprentices), his wife (Rebecca aged 38 and born in North Repps, Norfolk), son ( William aged 4 months and born in Sheringham, Norfolk) and another lodger (Henry Fouleer aged 14, born in North Repps, Norfolk and a blacksmith apprentice) in Sheringham, Norfolk.
Marriage of William Reave (sic - on the handwritten original original) Cooke and Elizabeth Framington in FreeBMD in October-December 1854 in Bermondsey (1d 66).
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for William Neave Cooke, father William Cooke, and Elizabeth Framingham, father William Framingham, on 1 October 1854 at St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Southwark. "Page 299 1854 Marriage solemnized at St Mary's in the Parish of Bermondsey in the County of Surrey. [No.] 457 October 1st William Neave Cooke [of] full age, [a] Bachelor [and] Blacksmith [of] Bermondsey, [father] William Cooke, [a] Blacksmith, [and] Elizabeth Framingham [of] full age, [a] Spinster [of] Bermondsey, [father] William Framingham, [a] Labourer. Married in the Parish according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Josph Griffen [and] Anne Maria Griffen."
In the 1861 census as William N Cooke aged 28, born in Southrepps, Norfolk, a blacksmith, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (William J), and three daughters (Elizabeth A, Harriet E and Mary A) in Factory Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
His son was born on 14 June 1864 and registered in April-June 1864 in Mutford.
His son was registered in July-September 1866 in Mutford, surname Cook, baptised on 8 October 1866 at St Margaret, Lowestoft when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft, surname Cook,and was buried on 15 October 1866 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, surname Cooke.
His son was baptised on 6 October 1867 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, surname Cook, when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft.
His daughter was registered in January-March 1868 in Mutford, surname Cooke, and baptised on 1 March 1868 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, surname Cook, when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft.
His son was registered in April-June 1869 in Mutford and baptised on 6 June 1869 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft.
In the 1871 census as William N Cooke aged 38, born in Southrepps, Norfolk, a blacksmith employing one man and one boy, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), three sons (Henry W, John H, and William J), and six daughters (Alice E, Anne M, Elizabeth A, Florence M, Harriet E and Mary J) at 10 Gun Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
His daughter was registered in April-June 1871 in Mutford and baptised on 7 May 1871 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft.
His son was registered in January-March 1873 in Mutford, surname Cooke, and baptised on 6 April 1873 at St Margaret, Lowestoft, surname Cook, when he was a blacksmith living in Lowestoft.
Entry in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for William Neave Cooke a shoeing smith living in Gun Lane, Mutford and Lothingland Hundred, Suffolk in 1874 White's History, Gazetteer and Directory.
In the 1881 census as William N Cooke aged 48, born in South Repps, Norfolk, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), four sons (Arthur G, Henry W, John H and William J), two daughters (Anna M and Mary Ann) and a boarder (James Ball aged 16, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, single and a blacksmith's lad) at 10 Gun Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Death of William Neave Cooke in FreeBMD in October-December 1884 aged 52 in Mutford (4a 550).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for William Neave Cooke buried on 19 November 1884 in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for William Neave Cooke buried 19 November 1884 at Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk. "Burials in the Parish of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk in the year One thousand eight hundred and eighty four [...] William Neave Cooke No. 446 [of] Lowestoft [on] Nov. 19th [aged] 52".
Entry in Find a Grave for William Neave Cooke died on 14 November 1884 in Suffolk, buried at St Margaret Churchyard, Lowestoft, Waveney, Suffolk. "In Loving Remembrance of/William N Cooke/The Beloved Husband of Elizabeth Cooke/Who Died November 14th 1884/ Aged 52 Years". There are four additional illegible lines.
There are two entries in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for Mrs William Neave Cooke blacksmith in Gun Lane, Lowestoft in 1892 and 1896 Kelly's Directory.
There are fifty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Neave Cooke.
Northrepps and Southrepps are SE of Cromer.
William Neave Cooke was the father of Henry William Cooke, husband of Mary Ann Taylor, wife of Edward Cowles, my second cousin once removed.
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