1.
BENJAMIN1
COOK (Source: Anne McColl) was born 1768 in
Surrey,
England, and died 05 Jun
1800 in AT SEA onboard
"Royal Admiral".
He married ANN POULDEN
1799 in England, daughter of JOHN POULDEN.
She was born 1773 in England, and died 05 Feb 1835 in Sydney, New South
Wales.
Notes for BENJAMIN
COOK:
1798 Benjamin Cook was
convicted on two counts of assault and goaled for twelve months.
22.7.1799 Surrey Goal
Delivery Benjamin Cook was sentenced to hang for stealing to the value
of 5/-. This was commuted to transportation for
life. Wife to accompany him.
Residence said to
be St George,
Southwark.
Above from Robina Newton
[rpnewton@optusnet.com.au] 2005
Benjamin died on board the
Royal Admiral on its voyage from England to New South Wales
from 5 May to 16 July 1800.
Benjamin was a convict on board and died of a fever. The Royal
Admiral sailed with 300 convicts,
11 missionaries and two French prisoners from the Napoleonic
wars. It
also
carried Gaol Fever and 43 of her prisoners died on the voyage. Benjamin Cook
died
on a Thursday 4pm 6 Jun 1800.
His body and bedding were consigned to the deep. Ann his wife
was also on the Royal Admiral,
when the ship arrived in Australia Ann, now a widow was left
with a new born baby (William) to
raise on her own.
Taken from the log book:
Royal admiral, convict ship (Capt J Wilson) Serious outbreak of fever
on voyage from Portsmouth to
Rio Janeiro, 1800 (laweis Papers) (ML Ref: ML MSS 4190 X/CY
POS 933 page
405)
Wed June
4?
"Benjm Cook a convict died
of the Fever. he had a wife and child on board. some of the
Brethren
informed her of his Death,
on hearing this she was much affected and cried earnestly to the
Lord
to have mercy on his soul.
She was informed that prayer now was of no avail on his behalf as
his state was irrocoverably
fixed according to the unerring testimony of God's word "Where the
Tree falleth, there shall it be"
exhorted her to put her trust in the Lord as he said "Leave thy
Fatherless
children and I will preserve them alive; and let thy
widow's trust in me..." His body
was committed
to the
deep. T Elder read part of the burial Service."
From James wiltshire's
Journal which he kept on board the Royal Admiral from England to New
South
Wales 5 May - 16 July 1800. (ML Ref: ML MSS 1296) Page 7
June 5th
"Slight breeze and cloudy
weather. Departed this life Benjm Cook, a convict, with a
Fever
committed his Body to the
Deep as before. The fumigating being continued as before and
strongly apployd as a very
great effect in abating the fever to the joy and pleasure of
everyone
on board." L45.13 Dist 80
K.
More About BENJAMIN
COOK:
Immigration:
Convict
Notes for ANN POULDEN:
Note: Ann Poulden arrived
in Australia as a FREE Passenger aboard
the ship "Lady Juliana",
which has been described as
a "floating brothel". She must have been sent out to be with
her
father as she was only 16
years old, and he was here as a member of the Royal Navy
Marines.
Ann possibly returned with
her father to England when he went back in 1792 and
in 1794 she
married a fellow named
Bellchambers when she was 20 years old. It is not known
whether
Bellchambers was ever in
Australia, but he apparently
died young, for in 1798 she married
Benjamin Cook. Benjamin
Cook and Ann decided to come to australia on the
Royal Admiral in
1800. Ann was pregnant and
after Benjamin Cook died during the voyage, she gave birth to
their son, William Cook, while
the vessel was still at sea 26 Nov 1800. On board this vessel
wasAntoine L'Andre, a Frenchman, who
had been captured and was a prisoner of war.
He was sent to
Australia as he said
that he knew how to make wine. Ann married Antoine in
1801 in Sydney
andthey
had four children. Antoine died from a centipede bite and Ann and
then married John
Harris,a landowner, in 183 at the age of 39 years. They had two
children. Prior
to her death Ann
wentcompletely deaf. A gutsy pioneer, she is buried in Christ
Church
Cemetery
Castlereagh in thesame grave as her
grnaddaughter Ann Jane Harris. The inscription
reads "Sacred to the
memoryof Ann Harris who departed this life February 5th 1835
aged 61
years.' "No
further
seek her meritsto disclose, or drain her frailties from their dreaded
abode,
there they alike in
trembling hoperepose, The bosom of her
Father and her God."
... Kay Gassan
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To my knowledge the
Poulden, Bellchamber part has not been substantiated by any
documents
also the Benjamin Cook
convict (1800) being the drum major of the first fleet (1788) is also tied
in
with family folk lore but
no one can really prove it. The
source for the Poulden, Bellchamber
part came from an article
written by Peter G Christian - "The
Lander's Vine" published in "Timespan"
June, 1985 -but he can't
say where he originally got the information. While I think it is a
great
"story" and I've included
it in my family history I have had to put it under "Family Folk Lore"
until some further evidence is
found.
Ann herself said in the
1828 census that she came out on the Lady Juliana as a free settler
but
there is no record of what
her name was.
.... Robina Newton
2005
More About ANN POULDEN:
Burial: Old Castlereagh Cemetery, Sydney, New South
Wales
Immigration: 1790, Lady
Juliana with her father - "Free"
Immigration-1: 20 Nov 1800,
"Royal Admiral" with her husband Benjamin Cook
More About BENJAMIN
COOK
and ANN
POULDEN:
Marriage: 1799,
England
Child of BENJAMIN
COOK
and ANN
POULDEN
is:
2.
i. WILLIAM2 COOK, b. 05 Jun 1800,
AT SEA onboard "Royal Admiral"; d. 19 Nov 1874, West Kempsey, New South
Wales.
Generation
No. 2
2.
WILLIAM2
COOK (BENJAMIN1) (Source:
Anne McColl) was born 05 Jun 1800 in AT SEA
onboard "Royal Admiral",
and died 19 Nov 1874 in West Kempsey, New South Wales.
He married (1)
HARRIETT
HUBBARD (Source: Anne McColl) 22 Nov 1821 in St Philip's
Church of
England, Sydney, New South
Wales, daughter of WILLIAM HUBBARD and MARY GOULDING.
She was born 29 Oct 1802 in Parramatta, Sydney,
New South Wales, and died 1853 in New South Wales.
He married (2) Ann
Kearns 18 October 1853 in St. Lawrence's Church of England, Sydney, New
South Wales (Source: Lynn
Lliffe - GR 2007.), daughter of Joseph Kearns and Elizabeth Ready.
She was born 1822 in
Sydney, New South
Wales, and died 22 July 1877 in Macleay River, New
South
Wales.
Notes for WILLIAM COOK:
William Cook married 1
Harriet Hubbard - her last child was William born Castlereagh 30 Nov 1836
(638 No 20),
Harriet disappeared from
the records - William Cook snr
turns up next in Kempsey with his
children (one of whom was
my great grandmother) and begins having children by Anne
Kearns
( the daughter of a
neighbour of William Cook's father in law William Hubbard) but they did
not
marry until 1853. My records say 10 children before they
married and 6 after. The first one
I
have is Joseph born c 1840 when
Anne is about 17 (accepted age for marriage was 16) , I have a
death certificate for him which
states his mother was Ann Kearns not Harriet Hubbard. One of
the problems has always been
that when William Cook died in Kempsey the death cert was filled
out by his son in law George
Avery (Rachel's husband) who stated that William had 22 children
and that his wife was Harriet
Hubbard - no mention of his wife's mother Ann Kearns!
I know when different
members of the families first started researching William's children it
came
together very slowly
because there are no records in the NSW bdms. Most of the information
for children of Harriet and
William came from birthday books and bibles. Ann came from the
Pioneer Register; Mary Ann from
family bible, Benjamin 1828 census, Sarah a daughter's
birthday book Susan bible, Hariet
marriage certificate, William bdms.
Joseph was born March,
1840 (source Nan
Smith
desc) (too early for church -
roving minister but he did not visit until
much later); Elizabeth Ann 20.10.1841; Ann
12.5.1844 Summer Island, McLeay River
(mc);
Rachel 26.12.1854 Yarra
Bankini, Macleay River (bc).
...Robina
Newton
More About WILLIAM COOK:
Baptism: 18 Sep 1804,
New South
Wales (Source: Robina Newton)
Immigration: 20 Nov 1800,
"Royal Admiral"
More About HARRIETT
HUBBARD:
Death Reg.: No. V1853472
39B/1853
More About WILLIAM COOK and
HARRIETT HUBBARD:
Marriage: 22 Nov 1821, St
Philip's Church of England, Sydney, New South
Wales
Notes for ANN
KEARNS:
Baptism: 18 October 1823,
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Sydney, New South Wales (Source:
Lynn Lliffe - GR
2007)
Burial: 23 July 1877,
Church of England section, West Kempsey Cemetery, New South Wales
(Source: Lynn Lliffe -
GR 2007)
More About WILLIAM COOK and
ANN
KEARNS:
Marriage: 1853, New South
Wales
Marriage reg.: No. V1853715
39C/1853
Children of WILLIAM COOK and
HARRIETT HUBBARD are:
i. ANN3 COOK, b. 1825,
New South
Wales.
3.
ii. MARY ANN COOK, b. 29 Sep
1826, Richmond, New South Wales; d. 06 Oct 1894, Crookwell, New South
Wales.
4.
iii. BENJAMIN COOK, b. 1827,
Richmond, New South Wales; d. 25 Jan 1908, West Kempsey, New South
Wales.
5.
iv. SARAH COOK, b. 20 Nov
1828, Nepean River, New South Wales; d. 13 Aug 1901, "City Hotel" Cnr King & Kent
Streets, Sydney, New South Wales.
6.
v. SUSANNAH COOK, b. 17 Jul
1832, Hawkesbury River District, New South Wales; d. 19 Nov 1913, Grafton, New South
Wales.
7.
vi. HARRIET COOK, b.
1834.
vii.
WILLIAM COOK (Source: Robina Newton), b. 30 Nov 1836, Sydney, New South
Wales.
More About WILLIAM COOK:
Birth Ref.: No. V1836683
20/1836
Children of WILLIAM COOK and
ANN
KEARNS
are:
8.
viii.
JOSEPH3 COOK, b. Mar 1840,
Macleay River, New South
Wales; d. 11 Jan 1904, Raleigh, New South
Wales.
9.
ix. ELIZABETH
ANN
COOK, b. 20 Oct 1841, New South Wales.
x. CHARLES H
COOK, b.
1842, New South
Wales.
More About CHARLES H
COOK:
Birth Ref.: No. V18421286
25A/1842
xi. FREDERICK
COOK, b.
1843, New South
Wales.
More About FREDERICK COOK:
Birth Ref.: No. V18431177
27A/1843
10.
xii. ANN COOK, b. 12 May
1844, Summer Island, Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 20 Jan
1929,
Clybucca, New South Wales.
11.
xiii.
ELIZA JANE COOK, b. 1846, New
South Wales.
12.
xiv. WILLIAM COOK, b. 07 Jul
1848, Glenrock, New South Wales; d. 03 Jun 1935, 34 Betts St,
East
Kempsey, New South Wales.
xv. CHRISTINA
COOK
(Source: Robina Newton), b. 03 Apr 1849, Narrellan, New South
Wales.
More About CHRISTINA
COOK:
Birth Ref.: No. V18491086
34A/1849
xvi.
CATHERINE COOK (Source: Robina Newton), b. 25 Mar 1851, Kempsey, New South
Wales.
13.
xvii. RACHEL COOK, b. 26 Dec
1854, Yarra Bankini, Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 1895,
Kempsey,
New South Wales.
xviii.
JAMES F COOK, b. 1855, New
South Wales.
More About JAMES F COOK:
Birth Ref.: No. V1855224
53/1855
14.
xix. AMELIA COOK, b. 15 Jul
1857, Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 01 Dec 1887, Horton St, Port Macquarie, New
South Wales.
xx. MATTHEW COOK, b. 09 May 1859,
Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 07 Aug 1859, Macleay River, New South
Wales.
More About MATTHEW COOK:
Birth Ref.: No.
8709/1859
xxi.
JOHN W COOK, b. 24 Nov 1861, Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 12
Jan 1862, Macleay River, New South
Wales.
More About JOHN W COOK:
Birth Ref.: No.
8782/1961
xxii.
MARTHA COOK, b. 16 Jul 1864, Macleay River, New South Wales; d. 19
Mar 1866, Macleay River, New South
Wales.
More About MARTHA COOK:
Birth Ref.: No.
9915/1864
xxiii.
JANE ALICE COOK, b. 29 Jul 1867, Macleay River, New South Wales;
More
About JANE ALICE COOK:
Birth Ref.: No.
11099/1867
Generation
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