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The Cook Family · James & Frances Cook

Helen E. Cook

b. 1900

The eldest of the four, born at Mosman. Not yet researched beyond her birth registration.

Helen E. Cook was born in 1900, her birth registered in the Mosman district, the eldest known child of James Alexander Cook and Frances Helen Poole. Nothing more has yet been researched.

The Record

Sources & References

Shared with The Cook Family.

  1. 1

    Birth, and marriage to James Alexander Cook

    NSW BDM birth index: Poole, Frances Helen, reg. 12358/1876, district Grafton, father William F. Poole, mother Frances Poole. NSW BDM marriage index: Poole, Frances H., m. Cook, James A., reg. 5386/1899, district Balmain North. NSW BDM birth index: Cook, James A., reg. 2652/1872, district Sydney, father James Cook, mother Emily Cook. (A separate FindAGrave-style record gives his birth year as 1873 — likely calculated backward from age at death rather than from the registration itself; 1872 is preferred here.)

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    The four children

    NSW BDM birth index, all children of James A. and Frances H. Cook:

    • Helen E., reg. 24075/1900, district Mosman.
    • William J., reg. 118/1903, district Sydney.
    • Isabel I., reg. 28819/1907, district Ryde.
    • Ernest C., reg. 41294/1909, district Ryde.
  3. 3

    Deaths, 1952 and 1968

    FindAGrave/NSW BDM: Frances Helen Cook, died 17 August 1952, buried/cremated Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, North Ryde. James Alexander Cook, died 26 January 1968, same cemetery. (The same record gives Frances’s own birth year as 1877, not matching the 1876 birth registration cited in reference 1 — likely, again, an estimate from age at death; 1876 is preferred.)