Auretta Jane Kilner 1872-1939
I am hunting for photos of Auretta and her daughter Dorothy 1901 from Dorothy’s great granddaughter Caroline in Sydney and from my cousin George’s second wife Valerie .
1872. Auretta Jane Kilner was born to John Kilner & Harriet Mathews on 8/4/1872- from 1939 Register
1881C.Auretta Kilner, 8, was living Denby, Wortley, Yorkshire. Census appears odd, as if rewritten!
John | Kilner | Head | Married | Male | 29 | 1852 | Grocer & Farmer 5 Acres | York, Yorkshire, England |
Harriet | Kilner | Wife | Married | Female | 29 | 1852 | - | York, Yorkshire, England |
Auretta | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 8 | 1873 | Scholar | York, Yorkshire, England |
Charles | Kilner | Son | Single | Male | 7 | 1874 | Scholar | York, Yorkshire, England |
Emily | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 5 | 1876 | Scholar | York, Yorkshire, England |
Florence | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 4 | 1877 | Scholar | York, Yorkshire, England |
Nellie | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 2 | 1879 | - | York, Yorkshire, England |
Percy | Kilner | Son | Single | Male | 0 | 1881 | - | York, Yorkshire, England |
Mary A | Chapman | - | Single | Female | 17 | 1864 | Dom Servt | York, Yorkshire, England |
1891C. Amelia? Jane Kilner, 18,was living Ellesmere Road, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield . Original does seem to read Amelia!
John | Kilner | Head | Married | Male | 39 | 1852 | Canvasser | Denby Dale Yorkshire, England |
Harriett | Kilner | Wife | Married | Female | 39 | 1852 | - | Shipley Yorkshire, England |
Amelia Jane | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 18 | 1873 | Grocers Assistant | Denby Dale , Yorkshire, England |
Florence | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 14 | 1877 | Scholar | Denby Dale Yorkshire, England |
Nelly | Kilner | Daughter | - | Female | 12 | 1879 | Scholar | Denby Dale Yorkshire, England |
Percy | Kilner | Son | - | Male | 10 | 1881 | Scholar | Denby Dale Yorkshire, England |
Joe Willie | Kilner | Son | - | Male | 8 | 1883 | Scholar | Denby Dale Yorkshire, England |
Elsie Marian | Kilner | Daughter | Single | Female | 4 | 1887 | - | Deepcar Yorkshire, England |
Eveline Mary | Kilner | Daughter | - | Female | 2 | 1889 | - | Deepcar Yorkshire, England |
Jean | Chisholme | Lodger | Single | Female | 22 | 1869 | School Mistress | Scotland |
1899. Auretta Jane Kilner married Fred Cooke on 9/3/1899 in All Saints parish church, Sheffield. He 34, bachelor, cattle dealer,of Wakefield :she 26, spinster, of 35 Earldom Street . His father George Cooke, deceased, miller; hers John Kilner, butcher . Witnesses Charles Kilner & Harriett Kilner - her 1874 brother & mother . Geoffrey thought Auretta was a telephonist
1901C. Auretta J Cooke, 28, was living Jacobs Well Lane South View , Wakefield
Frederick | Cooke | Head | Married | Male | 36 | 1865 | Pig Dealer | Knottingley, Yorkshire, England |
Auretta J | Cooke | Wife | Married | Female | 28 | 1873 | - | Lower Denby, Yorkshire, England |
George K | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 1 | 1900 | - | Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
Dorothy M | Cooke | Daughter | - | Female | 0 | 1901 | - | Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
Elsie M | Kilner | Sister-In-Law | - | Female | 14 | 1887 | - | Deepcar, Yorkshire, England |
Eliza | Taylor | Servant | Single | Female | 16 | 1885 | General Servant (Domestic) | Cudworth, Yorkshire, England |
Auretta and Fred had 10 Children between 1899 and 1917
1902. The family moved to Northcote 32 Petersen Road, Wakefield
1909. Tom Kilner Cooke was born Wakefield Sep 1909 to Frederick & Auretta
1911C. A J Cooke, 38, was living 32 Petersen Road, Wakefield. Living in 8 rooms; had been married 11 years; 8 children, all alive
Fred | Cooke | Head | Married | Male | 46 | 1865 | Cattle Dealer | Knottingley Yorkshire |
A J | Cooke | Wife | Married | Female | 38 | 1873 | - | Lower Denby Yorkshire |
G K | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 11 | 1900 | School | Makefield Yorkshire |
Fred | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 7 | 1904 | School | Makefield Yorkshire |
Allan K | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 6 | 1905 | School | Makefield Yorkshire |
Jack | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 2 | 1909 | - | Makefield Yorkshire |
Tom Kilver | Cooke | Son | - | Male | 1 | 1910 | - | Makefield Yorkshire |
Nancy | Cooke | Daughter | - | Female | 0 | 1911 | - | Makefield Yorkshire |
Alice | Hall | Servant | Single | Female | 17 | 1894 | General Servant Domestic | Normanton Yorkshire |
Sarah | Walker | Servant | Single | Female | 19 | 1892 | General Servant Domestic | Wakefield Yorkshire |
With 10 children Auretta had little leisure time. She baked a stone of bread twice a week and never bought a cake. All the laundry was done at home, with a copper in the cellar and flat iron heated on the kitchen range or gas stove. Later the family had a live-in maid - indeed there was one by the 1901C andd 2 by the 1911C !. She and the children had holidays at Scarborough or Filey, a bus being hired for transportaion. Only occasionally was Fred free to go.. On one known occasion, Fred & Auretta, with Nancy 1911, accompanied J B and Auntie Cooke- who are these?? - to one of their favourite retreats at Farndale, North Yorkshire, famous for its acres of wild daffodils. The four liked to play Solo together.
1922. The family moved to Burney Tops, South Parade. ( There is a reference to Burmantofts being corrupted into Burney Tops in https://archive.org/stream/YAJ011/YAJ011_djvu.txt - but still none the wiser!)
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Burney Tops . . ... The manse and Burney Tops, with the stables behind
Burneytops House was built in 1740s for William Charnock, a wealthy Wakefield wool m erchant. Part of the house was demolished to make way for West Parade Street. By 1820 the house was occupied by the wealthy Unitarian Backshell family. Next door to it stands the Manse for West Parade Chapel - A-Z of Wakefield: Places, People, History
"Animals for the market were housed on the land there before auction days amongst other work . My father used to talk about the egg custard and bun loaf his mother, Auretta, baked and however hard my mother tried the custard never had enough ‘body ‘ in it! Father had to ride a bike each morning to get the milk . I think the house still stands but I am not sure what use it now has ".
1935. Her husband, Frederick Cooke, died on 22/8/1935, Wakefield- No Probate or Obituary: there must be one in a local paper, but this obviously not on FMP Newspapers. But details of his will have been found - he left £23,615, in trust for her and then for 7 surving children
1939 register. Annetta J Cooke, widowed, was living 5 West Parade Wakefield with her disabled son, and 2 of her unmarried younger Kilner sisters
Annetta J | Cooke | 08 Apr 1872 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Widowed | 154 | 1 |
Jack | Cooke | 02 May 1908 | Male | Incapacitated | Single | 154 | 2 |
Emily | Kelner | 11 May 1878 | Female | Health Visitor Retired | Single | 154 | 3 |
Elsie M | Kelner | 11 Jan 1887 | Female | Household Duties | Single | 154 | 4 |
1939. Auretta Jane Cooke, 67, of Burneytops, 5 West Parade, died on 6/12/1939, Wakefield . Probate of £3294 to Dorothy Mary Armitage( wife of Leonard Armitag) & Tom Kilner Cooke, physician
On her death a Compulsory Purchase Order was made on Burney Tops for £2000 and it was turned into a wartime Day Nursery. It still( as of the time of Geoffrey's info, maybe 2013?? - scan22 ) stands in the centre of Wakefield with the stables and house operating as Offices
Frederick & Auretta, along with sons Alfred & Jack, are buried in a family grave at Wakefield Cemetery . no. E83.No memorials found there in FindaGrave