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Suggest you visit the county records office to look for baptism records

Another thread about Harry and Olive's baptisms:

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1379485

Thankyou for your reply

Do you mean The Archives Nottingham if so you need to be a member there

Once I can find the dates I’m looking I’m sure Central Library will have them there
Thankyou again
Olive

You won't find their baptism dates online - we've looked.

Perhaps the library/records office/archives staff might be able to figure it out from their birth dates, which you do have.

Thankyou for your reply

Yes so the story goes
I have found the Marriage for them
Harry Cooke And Olive Taylor
25 December 1903
The Parish Church
St Nicolas in the City
Living @ 8 Park Street Nottingham

Thankyou once agian
Olive Ling Granddaughter

Olive - you need to read the sections re Accessing Archives at Nottingham.

Most records are available for general access. To look at Original archive material (microfiche are not original) you need an Inspire Library card - the info below will tell you what documents you need.

https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/heritage/archives/visiting-archives/

Re Nottingham Archives -

apparently you only need to be a member (ie - have a card ) if you go there in person to look at records.
https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/heritage/archives/visiting-archives/



You don't seem to need to be a member to ask them to look things up for you, by email or letter - although there is a charge for that:

https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/heritage/archives/research/

Thankyou for your info

I was a member of the National Archives but that’s expired many years ago

I am a member of Nottinghamshire Library so I will look into it
But firstly I need to find my Grandmother real date of birth

But you have found grandfathers and it’s his right Fathers name
So a trip agian th the Central Library
Thankyou all again
Olive Ling nee Bowler

Do you not have their Birth Certificates?...(to get correct Birthdates)

Chris :)

Edits (these (1939) posted on page 1, by Shirley)

Harry Cooke 25 Dec 1878 Sheet Metal Worker (Director)
Olive Cooke 25 Sep 1882 Unpaid Domestic Duties


https://www.freereg.org.uk/

(above was useful with your other Notts. queries)

(now sees safc has found Harry Baptism, on other 'Thread'!)

(looking on above link, can see James Taylor, and Walter Francis Taylor Baptisms, Pym Street, Sneinton 1891, no daughters though)

GoodMornig
Yes I have 1939 register and that states 25 th December for both grandparents
Which all us grandchildren thought their birth dates were
The birth certificates won’t tell us the Baptisms
For them
Anyway thankyou all for all your efforts
I will go again to Nottingham Central Library and look again on BMD records
Thankyou all agian
Olive

Olive, the 1939 states September for Jean!...(apologies!, Dec. written on image!)

You need the Birth Certificate...no Baptism, but, they don't always give a Birthdate either...

Going to Library won't really help, there isn't looking to be a Baptism for her, as I said above James and Walter Francis can be found on below, no Olive.

(and James has a birthdate, but not given for Walter)

https://www.freereg.org.uk/

(click on above, free to use at home!)

Chris :)

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp

(Certificates bought from above, you need to register, if you haven't already done so)

Birth
TAYLOR, OLIVE mms WOOLLEY
GRO Reference: 1883 M Quarter in NOTTINGHAM Volume 07B Page 381

Just to say a big Thankyou To you all
For all the information you have found me redarding my Grandparents
And my Aunt Vera who was 100 years old =15th October 1919

I put together an Album of photos and Family History through years
Which went down well with all the Family
Aunt Vera received a Telegram from The Queen
The Nottingham Evening Post came regarding her 100th Birthday ,also local School children came to sing to her
The party the Care Home organised ,where she lives was really lovely
So Thankyou all agian
Olive

Ps
I will send for my Grandmothers Birth Certifate Olive Taylor born 1882/3 Nottingham after all
Thankyou all agian
Olive

Hello
I have just come across this conversation today.
I am the son of Betty Andrews (Hebblethwaite), grandson of Gwendolen Hebblethwaite (Cooke) and nephew of Peter Hebblethwaite. I have a photograph of Peter before he went to Canada in his Nottingham Police Uniform.
Is Harry Cooke the same Harold Cooke, Gwendolen's brother, that married Winifred Townsend in 1938??

I would love to exchange information with folks about this. As it happens I also live about three miles from Hucknall Library.

Hope to hear from you all. Regards Steve Andrews

Hi Stephen.
Welcome to the boards.

Olive Jean might not be looking for replies on her thread at the moment, so if you want to contact her, click on her name (in green) above one of her posts to send a message through the GR system. She'll be notified there is a message waiting for her and can then retrieve it and reply direct to you.

Welcome to the boards, Steve.

If you mean the Harry Cooke (1878) who married Olive Taylor in 1903 and who is still with her in 1939 (records posted on this page as well as earlier in this thread) - then no, he can't be the same one.

Your Harold with Winifred in 1939 ???

Harold Cook
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: Harold Cook
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 14 Sep 1914
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 58
Residence Place: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Occupation: Bricklayers Labourer Heavy
Schedule Number: 121
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: RMKO
Registration district: 430-4 B29
Inferred Spouse: Winifred Cook
Household Members:
Name
Harold Cook
Winifred Cook - 7 July 1913

Harry
Last name Cook
Birth year -
Baptism year 1879
Baptism date 16 Feb 1879
Denomination Anglican
Church St Stephen
Baptism place Sneinton
Father's first name(s) Harry
Father's last name Cook
Mother's first name(s) Maria
Mother's last name Cook
Residence Sneinton Rd
County Nottinghamshire
Country England
Record set Nottinghamshire Baptisms Index 1538-1917

My Harold Cooke was born on the 7th of August 1897 in Gainsborough and Winifred on the 31st of March 1894. I think, but don't know for definite, that Winifred was his second wife.

It seemed quite a coincidence that Peter Hebblethwaite is the nephew of a Harold (Harry) Cooke, and that a Vera Wilson went to Canada with him for some reason unless they are related, but it does appear at the moment to be a coincidence..

Harry Cooke is a very common name, but the answer is to do the research

Presumably, Hebblethwaite's mother was a Cooke before her marriage

Find her on censuses and see who is in the same household

Alternatively, purchase a copy of the 1938 marriage cert to find out Harry's father's name - and whether or not he had been married previously

The 1939 census posted above is not for the people you are connected with