Early NZ? birth help please Cooke/Cook

[cmclayton]

Hi Mare and Lucy2

I have started a new topic "James Henry Clayton born 1851 Middlesex"

Thanks heaps Christine

[Lucy2]

Hi again Christine

Yes, that's a great idea ... I'll post some snippets to the new thread.

Lu

[Lucy2]

...  from the WISES NZPO and STONES directories ~

1908   WISES

COOK - William Warder, Shakespeare Road, Napier
[This entry is underneath one for a Wm. Thompson COOK - so it makes "Warder" look like it is a second christian name ?]

1911 - 1912    WISES

COOK - William Robert, warder, Coote Road, Napier

1912-1913    STONES

COOK - William Robert, gaol warder, Coote Road, Napier

[ Oxford Dictionary:  "Warder" = prison officer 
"Warden" = chief officer in charge of a prison ]

These listings are from a random search - couldn't "find" him 1914-15 or  1916 thru 1919  ?

Q :    Did his son grow up  / or marry, in Napier ?

Lu

[mare]

Good spotting thanks Lu

Haven't been on line, been sending/receiving emails between phone calls family bereavement overnight favourite aunt 92, bless her

Thanks for spending time on look-ups.
William's son Aner assume would have followed dad from New Plymouth to Napier and left when became of age. Aner was 21 at marriage to Vera in Auckland NZ  28.2.1923 usual residence Takapuna Auckland, Vera's Avondale.

I couldn't spot William on that Cooke death index but I have yet to go back and look at the Cook one Perhaps Takapuna next family move as there is a witness to Aner's marriage, a Madge Cooke, Bretts Avenue Takapuna. I haven't  much knowledge of where to look for these things and so grateful for help in sharing your resources.

Ta again

Mare

[mare]

Those 1914 - 1919 War years just thinking, Aner was in Egypt WW11 as I have a letter from him to his daughter.

Mare

[DotBrennan]

Hi Lu/Mare

Napier Prison was in Coote Road and Shakespeare Road runs into Coote Road up on Bluff Hill.


Bren.

[mare]

Thanks for that info Bren

Beginning to paint a picture with little details coming through

(beginning to need much better filing system )

Mare

[Lucy2]

FOUND ...  Death of William Robert COOK

[Details .. additional to those posted on UK Census look-up thread] :

Waikumete Cemetery - Auckland - NZ

COOK  -  William Robert

>   Retired Prison Superintendent
>   died - 12 July 1953        >  Place of death   ?
>   aged  92
>   Comments:    Cremated  13/7/1953  /  Dr de Clive Lowe, Dominion Road  /  Dr. Drury  /  ashes scattered  14/7/1953  /
place of death  ?
>    Last residential address :  435 Dominion Road, Mt. Eden
>    Davis Funeral Services

                     _________________________

[Info Source :   Waikumete Cemetery - Waitakere.govt.nz]

Burial info for Emma COOK / COOKE (wife) -  NOT found at Waikumete :

Lu

[mare]

Thanks Lu

That's Wonderful / YOU'RE  WONDERFUL

 

I'll get back to BDM online with ref no and get her to resume the birth search 1861 and a year each side for starters and I'll be watching the post and you can watch this post 

Mare, fingers and toes and eyes crossed