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Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« on: Friday 28 June 13 23:29 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone - I'm struggling, really struggling, can anyone offer any advice?

Here's what I've got

Maggie Todd marries William Robert Cooke June 1910 in Belfast Ireland.

They have 4 children

Margaret Dalzell Cooke, Eveline Cooke (1913 - 1989), Agnes May Cooke (1913 - 1919), William Robert Cooke (1917 - 1994).

As you can see I've got some info on all but one of the children, Margaret D Cooke.

She was born in Ireland around 1911, moves to Glasgow and in 1941 marries James Hunter, but I can't find a birth or death for her.

I know she was still alive in the early 1970s (living in Scotland) but can't find a death cert for her.

Can anyone offer any pointers?

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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooker
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 29 June 13 00:13 BST (UK) »
Is this the parents at 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Woodvale/Lanark_Street/179154/

How have you calculated birth year for Margaret -  age on marriage certificate? Certainly, if born in or around 1911, she should be on the Irish Civil Registration Index, but record not obvious there at moment. Could be mis-transcribed, could be born elsewhere, etc. Were the other children all born Belfast?
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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooker
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 29 June 13 00:16 BST (UK) »
Is this them in 1911?
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Woodvale/Lanark_Street/179154

She could have been registered just as Margaret or without first name(s)
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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 29 June 13 00:29 BST (UK) »
Yes that's them - I can't find any record of the birth of the daughter Margaret D Cooke.


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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 29 June 13 01:51 BST (UK) »
Do you have her husbands death cert? If not, I would try that. It may show if 1) he died quite young because then she may have remarried and her death is not registered as Hunter or 2) that he was a widower and then you can narrow down her death.


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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 29 June 13 03:15 BST (UK) »
There was a Margaret Cooke birth registered in Belfast Oct – Dec 1915 Volume 1, page 218. Could that be her?
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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 29 June 13 08:49 BST (UK) »
Gr8scot - after she married mr hunter she went on have 3 sons her eldest son wasn't her husbands, although he did adopt that son when he was about 15.
It wasn't a happy marriage, and she left her husband and sons in the mid 1950s, when the youngest was about 2 - never to have any further regular contact (to my knowledge), so the husbands death cert woudnt contain any relevant info to her where abouts, mr hunter died 1976.

Elwyn - I would doubt that would be her as she had 2 sisters and a brother born 1913, 1915 and 1917.

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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 29 June 13 09:25 BST (UK) »
Miss Poohs, I can't help you in this instance as you're right, there is no paper trail for Margaret. However, you seem to have left out information regarding her children. I am Margaret's Granddaughter.  :)
If there is any way we can exchange a private message on here, that would be great. I am interested in finding out what relation you are to Margaret, and therefore to me.

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Re: Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 29 June 13 09:28 BST (UK) »
Is that you Kim?