Hello Wayne,
A candidate for your Benjamin Cooke may be the St. Michan’s Catholic Parish register transcription below. The transcription comes from the irishgenealogy.ie Church Records collection, and shows that Benjamin was baptized on 13 December 1811. His father is Frederick. His mother is Catherine, but Catherine’s maiden name is not recorded in the register. The sponsors or godparents were George Brasil and Mary Wilson. See the transcription below:
Area - DUBLIN (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. MICHAN
Baptism of BEN COOKE of N/R on 13 December 1811
Name BEN COOKE
Date of Birth N/R N/R N/R
Address N/R
Father FREDERICK COOKE
Mother CATH
Further details in the record
Sponsor 1 BRASIL GEORGE
Sponsor 2 WILSON MARY
About the record
Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier
2 222 6852 DU-RC-BA-381163
The church register page containing this record has not yet been imaged.
Source Information: irishgenealogy.ie
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You can view a copy of the original St. Michan’s baptism register entry for Ben Cooke from the National Library Ireland link at: https://registers.nli.ie//registers/vtls000633586#page/217/mode/1up
There are two facing pages to the register. Ben’s baptism is the 2nd to the last entry at the bottom of the right-hand page. You can enlarge the page by means of round icons in the upper center/ right of the screen. The icons are white with green backgrounds. You can also access the full-screen function by clicking on the last icon on the right with the two arrows pointing northeast and southwest.
Back at the irishgenealogy.ie website I found the marriage transcription for Benjamin’s parents. Fredericus Cook and Catherinam Magennis were married in St. Michan’s, Dublin, on 17 April 1808. The priest who married them was M.B. Corr. The witnesses were Jacobo (James) Wilson and Maria. No last name is recorded for Maria:
Area - DUBLIN (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. MICHAN
Marriage of FREDERICUS COOK of N/R and CATHERINAM MAGENNIS of N/R on 17 April 1808
Husband Name FREDERICUS COOK
Wife Name CATHERINAM MAGENNIS
Address N/R
Occupation N/R
Father N/R
Mother N/R
Further details in the record
Priest M B CORR
Witness 1 JACOBO WILSON
Witness 2 MARIA
About the record
Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier Image Filename
N/R N/R N/R DU-RC-MA-141934 st.michans_mf_1850-1869_ma_0402
Source Information: irishgenealogy.ie
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You can view the marriage record in the St. Michan’s registers at: https://is.gd/jfVVcm
The marriage is at the top of the right-hand page, and is very faded and difficult to read.
Wayne, do you know if your Benjamin Cooke had at one time lived in the St. Michan’s Parish?
To view St. Michan’s Parish in Dublin on an Ordnance Survey Map from the 1837 to 1842 time period go to the following GeoHive link: https://bit.ly/3gDYX4y
With a little navigation of the map southward, you’ll see that St. Michan’s Parish is located just north of the River Liffey where the Four Courts Buildings are situated, just off the Kings Inn Quay.
To the west of St. Michan’s Parish is the parish of St. Paul’s.
Good Luck with your research Wayne,
Dave Boylan