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by Wayne Jones
Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:52 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)
Replies: 19
Views: 23133

Re: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)

Thanks very much Wayne! I have made further revisions and included that Link to Beaumont’s info and also a link to your own website. Ultimately I suppose, due to all the confusion about who was the mother of who, the only really important thing is that WH COOK seems to have been the father and/or s...
by Wayne Jones
Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:47 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)
Replies: 19
Views: 23133

Re: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)

Yeh we are getting there. A few other modifications.... 1)" MITH-COO-COO-MAN-E’SQUEW (Agathas) COCKING, step-sister of his first wife Mary. " MITH-COO-COO-MAN-E’SQUEW (Agathas) COCKING was not related to his first wife, KAHNAPAWANAKAN. She was Mary Cocking so the section "step-sister ...
by Wayne Jones
Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:31 pm
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)
Replies: 19
Views: 23133

Re: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)

1) Their first child was Nancy, born around 1787. Many sources indicate that Nancy was born in 1786. However, if COOK arrived in the summer of 1786 and Nancy was his child, it is unlikely that she was born that same year. His second child was Jane (Jenny) born around 1788. is repeated twice. 2) Firs...
by Wayne Jones
Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:41 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)
Replies: 19
Views: 23133

Re: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)

William Hemmings family can be rather confusing. In fact he says that he called all three of Cocking's half breed daughters, Agatha saying "the name of Agathas being an Appelation suitable to any of the halfbreed Ladies." So who wouldn't get confused. However, Raymond M. Beaumont did a maj...
by Wayne Jones
Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:55 am
Forum: Discussion Topics
Topic: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)
Replies: 19
Views: 23133

Re: WILLIAM HEMMINGS COOK (1768-1846)

Nancy Cook's scrip reads as follows : Scrip affidavit for Garrioch, Nancy, wife of William Garrioch; born: 1785; father: Wm. Hemmings Cook (English); mother: Kahnapawanakan (Cree Indian); claim no: 2307; date of issue: October 2, 1876 - RG15 , Interior , Series D-II-8-a , Volume 1321 , Reel C-14928 ...