Eliza Jane Ridgely bn. 1839-1917.
Children.
Isabel Jane Cook 1863.
Samuel 1864.
David Orlando Cook bn.1866-1874.
Hepzibah bn.1869.
Daniel Mander Cook 1873-1928.
Eliza Jane Ridgely bn. 1839-1917.
Rith bn.1873.
Ruth mary Cook bn.1878-1955.
Died in Antwerp, Begium, of inhailing poisonous vapours in 1914.
picture by Gavin Parker.
George Henry Cook was born in Wivenhoe
on 19 August 1857. He was just over three years old when his mother died in 1861
after suffering with Typhus fever and his father and two siblings moved into his
grandmother’s house at Quay Street. Sometime after George’s father remarried in
1862, the family moved to Park Road.
George’s career in the maritime
industry started as a Rope Maker at the age of 13 and he eventually progressed
through to become a Master Mariner. At the age of 14, he was already at sea
aboard the ‘Sovereign’, which was probably coasting with coal. By 21 he was an
Able Bodied Seaman on board the famous yacht ‘Jullanar’ at the commencement of her
successful racing era. George also crewed on the ‘Rosabelle’ owned by Theodore Pym and
was Master on the racing yacht ‘Milly’.
George married Sarah Ann Shipp at St
Mary the Virgin Church in Wivenhoe on 9 March 1880 and they went on to have 10
children between 1880 and 1896. They lived in Malting Yard until the late 1890’s
when they moved to a house in Clifton Terrace.
After arriving in Antwerp, Belgium on
the SS Lindale on 1 March 1914, George suffered congestion on his lungs from
inhaling sulphuric acid fumes whilst loading the ship in Antwerp the following
day. He was taken
to the Stuivenberg Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, where he died at 6:00pm on
3 March 1914 and was buried at the Kiel cemetery in
Antwerp. Two of his sons, George and Stanley, travelled to Belgium for the
funeral.
Thanks to Nick Sheen Western Australia for the additional text.
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