Are you up for a challenge?

[Lucy2]

... also on ...

1928 - Waikato Supplementary Roll

COOK - Ivy Joan Elizabeth - Te Miro - married

[Lucy2]

Hmm ... just looking further at electoral rolls, and this "Ivy Joan Elizabeth COOK - married" is still listed as living at Te Miro up until 1954.

Hurlstone and wife Louisa (Te Miro) are listed on same rolls and in 1954 the wives of Hurlstone's sons are included.    There is no "match-up" of a husband for Ivy J.E. in any of these listings.      [At present can't see a re-marriage or death for Ivy J. E. ]
   

[Lucy2]

... that is his birth.  31st March 1901, Western Super Mare, Somerset. He may have emmigrated with Hurlstone around 1910-1914, there is a record of a H.Cook departing Newcastle for New Zealand in 1913. The record has the correct birth year for Hurlstone.

William was around 9 years younger so may have come later.
 

Hi Tawa

From the "findmypast" website (emigration - index only) :

COOK - William Charles C.
Born:  1901

1926 - travelling from London to Sydney, Australia

[Not able to determine from the index, whether he had a wife with him on that voyage. ]

   ~  Lu

[temiro tawa]

Just returned home from work to find your posts Lucy. I could kiss you.  flipping over all this new info for me.... Your a beaut!  You too KHP.  that proves to me he was in the navy , and it does look like it was with the marine engineers, so the wellington link may have some truth to it possibly.

 Also found this.....below.  so It seems he was still with the Royal Industrial marines on his way back from India in 1924, then headed off to New Zealand.



UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Whilliam C C Cook
Name:    Whilliam C C Cook
Birth Date:    abt 1901
Age:    23
Port of Departure:    Bombay, India
Arrival Date:    12 Jun 1924
Port of Arrival:    London, England
Ship Name:    Caledonia
Search Ship Database:    View the 'Caledonia' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line:    Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Company
Official Number:    102390

[BegClonrode ....]

It seems he was still with the Royal Industrial marines on his way back from India in 1924

Hello...

I read the following as discharged in 1923...


British Library: Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
 - Royal Indian Marine/Navy
    - Indian Navy Officers' Service Statements
       - COOK, William Charles Chancellor Sub-Lt  IOR/L/MIL/16/5/320  1921-1923


Source: Archives UK - Name Search
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/name_search.aspx


I have been wrong before :-) so you could always ask a fellow rootschatter for a British Library look-up.

Rootschat - Library and FHS Lookups
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,150.0.html

Admittedly, knowing the exact year of discharge is not that important but the Service statement may have other details of interest.

... the Royal Industrial marines

What source gave you the word "Industrial". Am curious if that's a mis-transcription of Indian.

Regards
Beg

[temiro tawa]

Sorry,   Industrial was a goof up.     

Now I'm curious about William's kids,  What happened to Ivy and the kids?  still in New Zealand?

[BegClonrode ....]

Now I'm curious about William's kids,  What happened to Ivy and the kids? 

Hi again...

The following link seems to list the COOK births found on the BDM NZ Births fiche. The seven births registered in Cambridge in the 1927 to 1935 period may be the children of William and Ivy or of older brother Hurlstone and his wife Louisa. Six of the births have Hurlstone as a middle name.

Do you know the names of the children of Hurlstone COOK and his wife Louisa, apart from the two already mentioned by KHP. Will help with elimination.

http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/gretasplace/Resources/BDMs/Cook/Cookb1.txt

Regards
Beg

[Lucy2]

  I have my grandfathers brother, William Charles C  born abt 1901, in Western Super Mare, Somerset.   he came to N.Z. for a while but it seems took off. He may have left a wife and 3 kids...who are they?  read below..... from the Cambridge museum....

   In 1933 Harold Keytes bought his farm in Te-Miro from the lands and surveys department. The farm had been advertised in the New Zealand Herald as 178 acres, no fencing, no water supply and ragwort infested having changed hands twelve times after the first world war.

               One of it's owners was ....Bennet, and another .....WILLIAM COOK, brother of HURLSTONE whose family in 1995, were still farming in Maungakawa Road. WILLIAM was an ex British Navy man who, with his service endowment, settled until his wife and three children left him, when he abandoned the property and set sail for England. His navy influence is evident in the porthole windows featured in the homestead.

Hi Tawa

Haven't to date, been able to find anything further for Ivy (and any children).

But re: the above information you gave earlier, do you have any idea who may have furnished the Cambridge Museum with these details ?  
[Somebody obviously knew William during his brief stay, and that he had a wife and  three children   ... ]

If the person "Ivy Joan Elizabeth COOK" was indeed the wife of William C.C. COOK, then she was living in the Te Miro area for a good many years (seemingly alongside of Hurlstone COOK and his family)  

[PS :   Is your COOK line, through Hurlstone ? ]

   ~  Lu

[Lucy2]

Mmm ... this passenger departing NZ for UK (a with a link also to Bournemouth ?? )

Per "Rangitiki" - Arrived London, September, 1933

Mr W.C. COOK - retired - aged 32 years

Proposed address in UK :   109 Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth

.... and, accompanying him  ...

Master W.H. COOK - aged 2 (looks like ?) years.

    ~  Lu   

1931 - COOK - William Hurlstone - birth reg'd Cambridge

  ... may be the child (aged 2) who travelled who travelled with the above Mr W. C. COOK   ??