Hi I have received a note back from the website asking specifics or what exactly I am looking for with regard to my message about Robert Cooke and Sarah Jane Griffith, the disowned daughter of Sir Richard John Griffith.
Ultimately I would like to be able to connect Robert Cooke to a County Cavan Cooke family and my hope was that folks researching might just be able to identify with the family story.
Robert's brothers, Joseph and Richard Cooke are in the Upper Canada Land Books as "natives of County Cavan" so obviously Robert was too! They appear to petition as settlers in 1826. They were all born Ireland in the 1790s.
This Cooke family intermarried with the family of John Storey and Kitty Hardcastle of Cavan as well. John Storey married Mary Cooke about 1819 maybe in Dublin and they came to UIpper Canada, now Eastern Ontario, Brockville area same time as the Cooke brothers ca 1825. This Storey family is of Cavan as well and apparently I am told the given Name "Cosby" is unique to this line.
Mary and John Storey are in the 1852 Upper Canada census, the first census to name and detail family memebrs in this country. Old Thomas Cooke 101 years of age was living with them so he must have been Mary's father.
Was Mary Robert. Joseph and Richard's sister? Was Thomas their father? Only a find in Ireland will tell us that.
By finding details on the Storey family we may just unlock Cooke family details too!?!? I call it parallel research.
No mention of any townland or parish in my very extensive Canadian research of the past 10 years and I relaize that lack of such detail makes research very difficult, hit and miss!
Identification of a Cooke line, a Storey line, birth records for Sarah Jane Griffith...Not in Cavan .... Identification of other fellow researchers of these families for sharing...These are all goals!
jrmcginn1
Wednesday 22nd May 2013, 05:12PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi,
Thank you for your message and for getting back to us with more information! I hope that someone researching the same family contacts you and helps you with your research.
Like you said it can be difficult to find information without a specific parish of origin.
Have you tried looking at the land records pertaining to Ireland in the 19th century to see if you can try to narrow down a parish of origin?Perhaps you could compare what parishes had both Cookes and Storeys in them There are two:
The Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38)
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp
Griffith?s Valuation 1848-64:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
If Mary Cooke was married in Dublin city, you may be able to find their marriage record at http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ as church records from Dublin City have been uploaded here free of charge.
Here are some other websites that you may find helpful if you have not already tried them, hopefully they may give you some more ideas on where you can look:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm
Family Search: www.familysearch.org
Irish Genealogy Tool-kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html
The Library & Archives of Canada - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cavan/index.html
Ireland Genealogy projects: http://www.igp-web.com/Cavan/index.html
I hope that our website helps you to get further in your research, we are continually growing so even if someone does not connect with you now, they may do so in the future!
Best wishes,
Genealogy Support
Thursday 20th Jun 2013, 11:39AM