Susan Cooke 1855, Armagh, Ireland

Susan’s birth is before the start of statutory birth registration in Ireland (1864) and so to trace her I need to rely on church records. To do that I need to know which parish they lived in. I can't find anywhere named Glenmore in Co. Armagh though.  I can see several William Cooks listed in Griffiths Valuation for that county but none was living anywhere that might sound like Glenmore. Do you have any additional information on the family? What denomination were the family?

Hi Elwyn 

thank you for responding.

We have very little knowledge of my Great Great Grandmothers life in Ireland.

Another possible version is.

1855 • Copney Parish clonfeacle, Armagh Northern Ireland

She may be protestant.

regards

Karen

Karen,

I have found a Cooke family in Copney in the 1901 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Armagh/Killymann/Copney/1015588/

1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Killyman/Copney/323931/

I can see from the birth records that Adelaide Cooke was born 21.10.1868 to William L Cooke and Mary Fox. There was also a son David born 19.4.1864 at Copney. I can’t see the parents marriage in the civil indexes though.

Griffiths Valuation lists William Cooke’s farm in Copney. It was plot 21, just under 16 acres. That farm today is on the Clonmore Rd, not too far from Charlemont.

Probate abstracts from the PRONI wills site:

Cooke William of Copney county Armagh farmer died 7 March 1935 Probate Belfast 15 July to James Johnston Scott law clerk. Effects £164 2s. 6d.

Cooke Isabella of Copney county Armagh widow died 19 April 1943 Probate Belfast 27 October to the reverend James Egerton rector. Effects £463 10s.

The wills should be in PRONI, in paper format.

Mary Fox died 15.8.1905 of old age at Copney. Her husband William Lutton Cooke died on 12.2.1900, at Copney, aged 86, of old age.

The family were evidently Church of Ireland. Clonfeacle Church of Ireland records were all destroyed in the 1922 fire in Dublin and so unfortunately they have no baptism or burials earlier than 1869. They have marriages from 1845 but I don’t see a Cooke/Fox or a Cook(e)/Carlyon marriage in them.