Joseph Cooke was born on
28 September 1803 at Denton, Lancashire, the son of Samuel
and Sally Cooke, and was baptised at Denton
St Lawrence. He married Ann
Cowsill at Manchester Cathedral in 1826 and they had
seven children, the eldest being Mary
in 1827 who died in infancy aged four. Joseph
variously described himself as a cordwainer and a shoe
maker, which is essentially the same thing, and his name
appears in various trade directories at Lowes Fold, Haughton
where he lived for around thirty years.
Joseph's eldest son, Samuel,
followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a show
maker (pardon the pun). He moved to Glossop in the early
1850s, possibly to work for George
Shaw, a shoe maker employing one man in 1851.
In any event, he married George's
widow, Betty Cooper, and
the couple remained in Glossop and had three children,
Mary Jane, Elizabeth
and Joseph. All three lived
in the High Street area of Glossop, although they had
each married outside the area. Only Elizabeth
appears to have been childless, her husband, John
Jepson, being in the workhouse
infirmary in 1901.
Joseph's daughter, Mary,
and her husband, Thomas Smith,
lived with him after they married in 1860. By 1881, Joseph
was at 167
Stockport Road, Haughton, where Thomas
was the head of the household. Thomas
had been born in Hyde and had a varied working career,
describing himself as a cotton weaver in 1861,
a banks
man at a coal pit in 1871,
a hat proofer in 1881
and a hatter in 1891.
Joseph died in 1883, the
cause of death 'decay of nature' or old age.
The most prolific of Joseph's
children was the youngest, John.
He and his wife, Frances Elizabeth
(Fanny) had at least ten children over almost 20 years,
from Mary Ellen in 1863
to Clara in 1882. The couple
lived mostly on Two Trees Lane in Haughton, as did their
children, apart from Robert,
who moved to Hyde, like his uncle
of the same name.
Robert Cooke and Margaret Chatterton
Joseph's middle child was
Robert Cooke who was born
about 1836 and was baptised in February that year at St
Lawrence. By the time of the 1851
census, Robert was working
in the cotton industry as a piecer.
I haven't been able to find him in the 1861 census, although
the suspicion is that he may have been in Heaton Norris
where he had married Margaret
Chatterton in 1857. By 1871, the couple were living
at 11
Catherine Street, Hyde, where they were to remain
for virtually the rest of their lives, only moving to
118 George Street in the early 1890s where Margaret
died in 1892 and Robert
in 1896.
Robert graduated to become
a cotton spinner and he and Margaret
had three children — Emily, Joseph and Frank. Joseph
was also a spinner and he married Hannah
Hadley in 1896. They had two children, Ethel
and Maggie, born at their
home on Walker
Lane, Hyde. He was a member of Back-lane Working Men's
Club where the flags were flown at half-mast when he died
in 1936.
Less is known of Frank. He
was born about 1876 at Catherine
Street and was also a cotton spinner. He married
Sarah Wilson in 1895 at Hyde
St George and they had two children, Evelyn
and Albert, the former baptised
at St
George and the latter at St
Thomas the Apostle. To date, I have no record of Frank's
death.
Which brings me to Robert's
eldest child, Emily
Cooke, who was born in June 1864. She married Jesse
Walker in 1883 at All
Saints, Marple. He was to become the first registrar
at Hyde Cemetery which opened in 1894. They lived at the
lodge and where there when Emily
reported her father's death
in 1896. There is more information on the Walker/Howarth
page.
Jesse and Emily
had three children, Lena,
Robert and
Annie, although
Annie died in infancy
aged two. Lena
married Edward
Molesdale in 1917. Both were descendants of Edward
Chatterton, Lena
his gg-granddaughter through her grandmother, Margaret
Chatterton, and Edward
his great-grandson through his grandmother, Sarah
Chatterton, making them second cousins once removed.
There is more information on the Chatterton
page.
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