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Title: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Schonerhirt on Friday 23 January 15 22:32 GMT (UK)
Does anyone have any records or connections to Cooke family in Loppington?
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 23 January 15 23:01 GMT (UK)
Hi

Have you checked the Surname Interests board?  Scroll to bottom of this page and under TOOLS you will see the link
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: chempat on Saturday 24 January 15 10:23 GMT (UK)
Do you want to mention a few names and dates of birth, to pinpoint your family?

Thanks
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Schonerhirt on Sunday 25 January 15 08:19 GMT (UK)
There are so many Cooke's and possibly some surnames spelt Cook, just need to sort out the links. William Cooke & John Cooke - we believe twins - born 1821. John married Mary Elizabeth Cooke (b1822), and one of their daughters, Alice Elizabeth Cooke, b1866, (they had two of this name, one died) married Thomas William Cooke, b1865, in 1892, witnesses were Walter Sandford Taylor and Mary Emma Cooke. We think Mary Emma was Alice's niece. John Cooke's parents were William and Mary, and Mary Elizabeth Cooke's parents were Charles Cooke and Alice Sandford, born c1872.
Hope this gives you a flavour of the family. Most were farmers around Alkington, Wolverley, Lacon, Wem and Loppington although John Cooke was a butcher in Aston Street, Wem in 1881 census.
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Alberbury on Sunday 25 January 15 12:46 GMT (UK)
http://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/WemPart2.html

http://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/WemPart1.html

You will find the Cooke family in the above links.
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Alberbury on Sunday 25 January 15 12:54 GMT (UK)
https://archive.org/details/historywemandot00garbgoog

The History of Wem  by Rev. Samuel Garbet

Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Alberbury on Sunday 25 January 15 13:16 GMT (UK)
Do you have the baptisms for the Cooke family?

Sandford family were an old family in the County.
http://theisle.stormloader.com/sandfordwhite.html   
Title: Re: COOKE family, Loppington
Post by: Schonerhirt on Monday 26 January 15 08:01 GMT (UK)
Thanks everyone for your suggestions, I'll keep looking :)