Harrower Family Tree » Robert Cook (1811-1869)

Personal data Robert Cook 

Sources 1, 2

Household of Robert Cook

He is married to Catherine Glasgow.

They got married in the year 1846 at Airth, Stirlingshire, Scotland, he was 34 years old.Sources 5, 6


Child(ren):

  1. Cathrine Cook  1847-????
  2. Mary Cook  1848-????
  3. Janet Cook  ± 1850-????


Notes about Robert Cook

1. Robert Cooks death register states he was a widower to Jane Glasgow. The only record of Robert Cook marrying a Glasgow, shows Catherine Glasgow, marriage dated 00/05/1846.
COOK, ROBERT, CATHARINE GLASGOW/FR1874 (FR1874), 00/05/1846, 651/70 408, Airdrie or New Monkland. The informant at Robert's death, is a neighbour, George Rankin?

2. It appears that George Rankin did not know Roberts wife as Catherine!

3. Not in 1841 or 1861 Census

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Cook

James Cook
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Margaret Hunter
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James Marshall
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Margaret Mair
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Robert Cook
1779-1837
Mary Marshall
± 1783-< 1869

Robert Cook
1811-1869

1846

Catherine Glasgow
1817-1857

Cathrine Cook
1847-????
Mary Cook
1848-????
Janet Cook
± 1850-????

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    1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1811 Record for Robert Cook. Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com, Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 1040209
      Record for Robert Cook
      Name: Robert Cook
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 13 Jun 1811
      Baptism Date: 30 Jun 1811
      Baptism Place: Tillicoultry, Clackmannan, Scotland
      Father: Robert Cook
      Mother: Mary Marshall
      FHL Film Number: 1040209
    2. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Cook Parish: New Monkland; ED: 25; Page: 12; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1851_170; Year: 1851 1851 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1851 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 30/31 March 1851. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.
      Record for Robert Cook
      Name: Robert Cook
      Age: 33 (Correct age 40)
      Estimated birth year: abt 1818 (Correct Date 1811)
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse: Catherine Cook
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Tillicoultry, Clackmannan
      Parish Number: 651
      Civil Parish: New Monkland
      County: Lanarkshire
      Address: Rawyard Carlisle Road Cooks Land
      Occupation: Ironstone Miner
      ED: 25
      Page: 12
      Household schedule number: 35
      Line: 1
      Roll: CSSCT1851_170
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Robert Cook 33
      Catherine Cook 34 Edinburgh
      Cathrine Cook 4 Rawyards, Lanarkshire
      Mary Cook 3 Rawyards, Lanarkshire
      Janet Cook 7 Months Rawyards, Lanarkshire
      Ellen Gillies 15 Servant
    3. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1811 COOK, ROBERT ROBERT COOK/MARY MARSHALL M 30/06/1811 468/10 395 Tillicoultry Not downloaded
      COOK, ROBERT ROBERT COOK/MARY MARSHALL M 30/06/1811 468/10 395 Tillicoultry
    4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1869 COOK, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 468/ 23)
      1869 COOK, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 468/ 23)
      Deaths in the Parish of Tillicoultry in the County of Clackmannan 1869.
      Robert Cook
      Miner
      (Widower of Jane Glasgow)
      1869 February Twentyfourth 8h.P.M.
      Coalsnaughton
      M. 59 Years
      Parents: Robert Cook Miner (deceased)
      Mary Cook M.S. Marshall (deceased)
      No Medical Attendant
      Inf. George Rankin, Neighbour
      Registered 1869 February 27th Tillicoultry
      Peter Dow
      Registrar
    5. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1846 Record for Catharine Glasgow and Robert Cook Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
      Record for Catharine Glasgow
      Name: Catharine Glasgow
      Gender: Female
      Marriage Date: May 1846
      Marriage Place: New Monkland, Lanark, Scotland
      Spouse: Robert Cook
      FHL Film Number:1066601, 0102960
      / Ancestry.com
    6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1846 COOK, ROBERT, CATHARINE GLASGOW/FR1874 (FR1874), 00/05/1846, 651/70 408, Airdrie or New Monkland Not downloaded
      1846 COOK, ROBERT, CATHARINE GLASGOW/FR1874 (FR1874), 00/05/1846, 651/70 408, Airdrie or New Monkland

    Historical events

    Birthday June 13, 1811

    • The temperature on June 13, 1811 was about 15.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1811: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 11 » During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
      • May 16 » Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
      • May 18 » Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
      • July 5 » The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
      • November 17 » José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
      • December 26 » A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

    Christening day June 30, 1811

    • The temperature on June 30, 1811 was about 21.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1811: Source: Wikipedia
      • March 2 » Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
      • March 11 » During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
      • July 9 » Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
      • August 3 » First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
      • December 16 » The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
      • December 26 » A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

    Day of death February 24, 1869

    • The temperature on February 24, 1869 was about 1.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
      • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
      • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
      • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
      • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
      • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
    

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