Children of Fred & Auretta Cooke
(More information on children of children in Nigel's written sheet 2013- Scans 11 & 12 on emails on 16/7/2019, 13.15 & 13.16, untitiled)
1, 1899? George Kenneth Cooke -1918
He run away to join up in WW1 aged 15 . Died, aged 19, in Belgium 2 weeks before the Armistice was signed . Buried in Moorseele War Cemetery, Belgium: this visited several times by his mother in later years . No known issue
2. Dorothy Mary Cooke b. 3/1/1901, died 1971.Educated at Wakefield Girls High School. Married Leonard Armitage( Armitage Bricks, Robin Hood Brickworks)1922 at Holy Trinity, Wakefield. They lived at Overdale, Belgrave Mount, Wakefield.
. . . . .Children: Anne Elizabeth Armitage 1924-1993, married Peter Hirst in 1964. Marriage dissolved, no issue , &
. . . George Cooke Armitage 1928-2012, married in 1954 Patricia Ann Baer 1931-1973: 3 children: George Nicholas Armitage 1955;Carolyn J Armitage . . . . .1957 & Susanne Mary Armitage 1961 - Remarried Valerie Tibbles nee Ingram on 27/11/1974 . No children
1 George Nicholas Armitage b 28/5/1955 . Married Bernadette Jane Kirk on 3/2/1984 .
emigrated to Sydney Australia . Three children . Lucy Patricia b 19/3/1986 married David
Cox on 15/2/2013 one son James George b 3/12/2012 . Benedict Michael b 24/6/1991 .
Annabel Jane b 16/4/1993
2 Carolyn Julie Armitage b 22/7/1957 . Married Malcolm Alistair Greig on 30/4/1983 at St
Leonard's , Burton Leonard . Three children , divorced 1997 . Remarried Gerald Dew on
1/6/2000 , divorced 2011 . Charlotte Emma b 20/3/1986 , Robert George b 30/9/1989 ,
Sophie Louise b 26/2/1992 . Carolyn lives in Sydney .
3 Susanne Mary Armitage b 6/11/1961 . Married Nicholas Stephen Jones at St
Leonard's , Burton Leonard on 6/5/1989 . Divorced. Remarried Stuart Eon Macleod on
12/7/1997 at Stonor Arms , Stonor , Oxon . Two children . Joseph William Jones b
26/2/1990 . Alistair James McLeod b 22/1/1996 .
I am hunting for photos of Auretta and her daughter Dorothy from Dorothy’s great granddaughter Caroline in Sydney and from my cousin George’s second wife Valerie .
3. Fred Cooke Wakefield Sep 1903-1977, Oz. - aged 13 went to the Conway training ship, Liverpool, for the Merchant Navy. Married Marjorie Deane in Brighton 1933. Left the New Zealand shipping line & became a salesman for 'Chinese Eggs'. Later invested in a wine merchant's but was swindled by his partner. During WW2 seconded to the War Office on hush-hush work in connection with supplies for Overlord, becoming a Lieut.Colonel .Fred ended the war as Assistant Director of Transportation at the War Office. Post war they lived in Hamburg & Antwerp for some years before returing to London . One daughter, Priscilla, 1935, a WREN, marrried to an RAF officer, Colin Brown: they migrated to Australia. Here they adopted 4 children and then had one of their own. Priscilla, always known as Cilla, died in Australia in November 2012. She married Lieutenant Colin Brown RN a Royal navy helicopter pilot in 1964. he died 1985(?). Children Deborah b 1967, Michael, b 1969, Neil b 1971, Caron b 1973 and Keith b1975 married (well I think they are)Irene Klar, one daughter Madison On Marjorie's death, Fred joined them in Australia, where he died in 1977.
Their 2nd daughter, Virginia/Ginny 1942, married Geoffrey Eley, October 1968. 3 children - Sarah Jane b 18-1-1970 (she gets married for the first time on Oct 31 to Russell Tanley); Joel b 11-11-1971, married Joanna, 1 son Jack William b 28 - 9 -2005; divorced, m Rillyani Hussein, now lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ; Luke Nicholas b 6-12-1973, married Tina Juracheck 2 children Alexa Vie b 31 July 2012, Sebastian Rocky b 16 November 2016. they live in Dubai .Geoff studied law but wasn't a solicitor. Worked in various city banks for most of his working life. I worked most of my life as a lecturer in Higher Education - a rather strange career. First Lecturer in French at the university of Nigeria,; School for Independent Studies at North East Polytechnic then moved to faculty of Management as it morphed into Uni of East London. Time out as a management consultant before teaching English in several Chinese Unis/ Academies.She lived in China for more than 50 years ?
She lived in China for more than 5 years between 1996 and 2010
4. Alan Kilner Cooke 1905-1970 . Wakefield Mar
. . .Married Ellen Yelloly 1910- 1981. Four children: 1. David Cooke 1929-1930.; 2. Morag M Y Cooke 1831, teacher, married Ian Macnab Nicolson, naval architect, author & sailor, 3 children; 3. Carole MCooke 1934, teacher, married in 1962 Ian Watkin., live inYorkshire, four children. 4. Robert Y Cooke 1936, married Maureen .Balcombe/Bagwell, no children
5. Margaret (Peggy) Cooke 1906-1984. After Wakefield Girls High School. she went to a Quaker school, Poleham Hall, in Darlington. Married in 1936 John Ainsworth(Nigel's godfather), deputy Treasurer of of Wakefield City Council, later City Treasure of Plymouth & then of Liverpool. 2 daughters:1. Jennifer Ainsworth 1937, Macmillan nurse, married . . . . . . .Charles R Lewis, 3 children ; 2. Victoria Jane (Vicky) Ainsworth, married in 1965 Eric Bradshaw, accountant. 2 daughters
6. Jack Cooke. 1908-1954. Retarded, never worked or married. Buried in the Wakefield family grave. Given as Incapacitated in the 1939 Register
7. Tom Kilner Cooke 1909-1973
8. Nancy Cooke 1910-2001. BA Liverpool, married Roy Baird, architect, in 1937. Divorced in 1952, one son , Timothy Whitbread Baird 1938 married Inka Borst in Canada : 2 sons, James 1965 married Wenche Crag, a Norwegian, 2 sons- Thomas 1994 & Daniel 1999 & Thomas 1969, unmarried, a keen surfer . They lived in Eatbourne.
9. David Cooke 1913-1973 . Also went to Ackworth School . Married Margaret I Williamson in 1935. 2 sons: John F Cooke 1935-1942 & Simon Cooke 1941-1944, both dying of nephritis and buried in Fryston village where there is a memrial plque to them in the church. Parents divorced & David married Dorothy Stephenson in 1952: 2 daughters: Jennifer & Lesley . David worked with his father up till 1935 when he left to run the pub his in laws had managed, the Fryston Arms. From there he went to the Railway Arms in Wakefield, where he died on 25/9/1973. .
10. Alfred Peter Cooke 1917-1922, from diptheria . Buried in the Wakefield family grave
When their father, Fred Cooke, died in 1935, he left £23,615, nearly all in a trust for, seemingly, 7 surviving children: Fred, Alan Kilner, Tom Kilner, David, Margaret, Nancy & Dorothy Mary Armitage . No mention of Jack, 1908-1954, retarded,. 2 other sons had already died.
Update on the descendants of the marriage of Frederic Cooke and Auretta .
See previous document for earlier histories
1 George Kenneth . Died aged 19 in Belgium two weeks before the Armistice at the end of
WW1 , having run away to join up aged 15 . The grave is in the War Cemetery at
Moorseele , Belgium . No issue known .
2 Dorothy Mary b 3/1/1901 d 1971 married Leonard Armitage on 28/9/1922 at Holy Trinity
Wakefield . Two children .
A Anne Elizabeth b 20/4/1924 d 18/12/1993 Married Peter Hirst on 6/5/1964 .
marriage dissolved . No issue .
B George Cooke b 3/11/1928 d 21/12/2012 . Married Patricia Ann Baer b
10/7/1931 d 4/7/1973 on 10/6/1954 . Three children . Remarried Valerie Tibbles nee
Ingram on 27/11/1974 . No children
1 George Nicholas b 28/5/1955 . Married Bernadette Jane Kirk on 3/2/1984 .
emigrated to Sydney Australia . Three children . Lucy Patricia b 19/3/1986 married David
Cox on 15/2/2013 one son James George b 3/12/2012 . Benedict Michael b 24/6/1991 .
Annabel Jane b 16/4/1993
2 Carolyn Julie b 22/7/1957 . Married Malcolm Alistair Greig on 30/4/1983 at St
Leonard's , Burton Leonard . Three children , divorced 1997 . Remarried Gerald Dew on
1/6/2000 , divorced 2011 . Charlotte Emma b 20/3/1986 , Robert George b 30/9/1989 ,
Sophie Louise b 26/2/1992 . Carolyn lives in Sydney .
3 Susanne Mary b 6/11/1961 . Married Nicholas Stephen Jones at St
Leonard's , Burton Leonard on 6/5/1989 . Divorced. Remarried Stuart Eon Macleod on
12/7/1997 at Stonor Arms , Stonor , Oxon . Two children . Joseph William Jones b
26/2/1990 . Alistair James McLeod b 22/1/1996 .
3 Fred Kilner . No further information . No reply when I wrote to Virginia and husband
Geoffrey to Tilston House, Broad Street , Hatfield Broad Oak , Bishop Stortford , CM22
7JE
4 Alan Kilner b 18/2/1905 d 1970 . Married Ellen Yelloly b 26/12/1901 d 1/11/1981 . Four
children
1 David b 1929 d 1930
2 Morag Mary Yelloly b 24/12/1931 , a teacher , married on 26/8/1959 to Ian
Macnab Nicolson , b 4/8/1928 , naval architect , author and sailor . Three children .
A David Macnab Nicolson b 15/10/1961 B.Sc , Ph.D in engineering and a
property developer . Married Kiki Ottman on 8/5/1998 . No children
B Elizabeth Yelloly b 18/4/1965 . WRAC officer . Married Captain , now
Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Jalland, Grenadier Guards, on 6/7/1990 . Two children . Phillip
b 7/8/1994 and Alexander b 21/8/1996 .
C Richard Yelloly b 8/3/1967 . Ex army officer , now businessman. Married
Fiona Shaw on 16/5/1992 . Divorced . One child Harriot b 10/8/1993
3 Carole b 6/5/1934 , a teacher , married Ian Watkin d 2002 , a builder , in
1962 . Four children
A Sara b 18/9/1963 , a paediatrician . Married Richard Skeggs , a dentist ,
in 1987 . Divorced . Two daughters . Hannah b 19/1/1993 and Kate b 10/4/1995 .
Remarried Andrew Vincent , one son ,Oliver b 11/8/2002 .
B Victoria b 6/9/1964 , in retail fashion , married David Rule in 1993 .
Divorced . Remarried Mark Ferneyhough in 1999 , one daughter Pia b 15/8/2002 .