cooke ancestry

[poochie]

Im looking for help finding out about benjamin cooke who married ann bredin in 1870 in moville
Benjamin cooke was born in or around 1840 and annie bredin was born around 1847

Can anyone hlp with useful links that I can check.......

Thanx

[aghadowey]

Did they stay in Ireland? 1911 census is online and 1901 is to be added soon
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search

Have you looked at RESOURCES at the top of the Donegal board?
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,58.0.html

4 children are listed in IGI (www.familysearch.org)- search with parents' names only-
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp

[poochie]

I am told they resided in d'tennawren, donegal ireland in 1876 but cant confirm that coz I dont know where to start

   

[poochie]

Im also told that the cookes form my ancestry were all buried in cemetery in greencastle but I dont know where that is either but the name moville keeps comin up

[aghadowey]

If you searched on the 1911 census link I posted above you would have found what looks like Ann Cooke in Drumaweer townland (Moville D.E.D.):
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Moville/Drumaweer/495999/
Census says she's a widow, married 41 years, 12 children/10 children living. Only one child, Elizabeth, living with her.

Also in Drumaweer is a James Cooke (possibly another son) with a son Benjamin-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Moville/Drumaweer/495998/

[poochie]

Yeah thats the family...thanx

james cooke was one of their sons and married mary jane powers in 1899

But its the benjamin cooke links Im lookin for now..... All things i find lead me to beleive he died around 1910 in strabane district but I am havin problems findin his parents and also annie bredins parents
It seems they were not in drumaweer until benjamin died and thats seems to be wen annie moved the family so Im gettin all confused as to what sites I should be searchin etc

[derrylass]

Get marriage cert of Benjamin and Anne from
http://www.groireland.ie/apply_for_a_cert.htm

That will give fathers' names and where they resided at time of marriage.

[derrylass]

Death cert of Benjamin in 1910 will state where the death took place, not where he resided. Strabane Registation District in 1910 covered part of Donegal; you can get death cert using sbove link.

[aghadowey]

Have you looked at the RESOURCES topics? there's a very good Donegal booklet which might explain about what records are available, etc.:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/genbooklet.pdf

Civil index is online free and shows a possible death for Benjamin Cooke:
Benjamin COOKE (age 70) death Oct./Dec.1910 Strabane registration district  volume 2 page 220

and the marriage:
Benjamin COOK marriage 1870 Inishowen registration district volume 12 page 105

The marriage certificate should list fathers' names and occupations but will not show mothers' names. Death certificates do not list either parent.

The 1901 census is due online soon.