Ann COOK

COOK, Ann 1

Birth Name COOK, Ann
Gramps ID I0148
Gender female
Age at Death 55 years, 8 months, 22 days

Narrative

Born in 1885 in Canley Vale. Ann COOK had a hat shop before she was married. Her marriage to Russell Edwin MAXWELL was stylish and beautiful, the men wore their morning suits and the groomsman was film star Tom (Pat) O.BRIAN, who was to become husband of neice Daphne COOK.
 Ann had a lovely crystal clear singing voice like her mother and played the piano and sang at the Leader Tarful in Goulburn.
 Russell worked in a shed by the house and when working the children knew to be VERY QUIET. On his return home Russel would cough several times and on entering the house the children would be lined up silently, waiting.
 It was reported that following a Railway Union meeting he decided to go back to work only to be be struck on the head by one of the Railway picketers, and was killed. Aged: 39 years.
 Widowed at an early age, life was not a bed of roses for Ann with 7 children. The older boys worked nights foling "Penny Post" newspapers whilst others helped mange the young ones.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 31 Jan 1885 Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia    
Death 22 Oct 1940 Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia    

Relation to the centre person (SHEPPEARD, Sharon Lynette) : great grandaunt

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father COOK, James [I0151]7 Oct 18484 Feb 1900
Mother GREENHALGH, Sarah Ann [I0139]16 Jul 184919 May 1935
    Brother     COOK, Edwin James [I0153] 13 Oct 1867 9 Dec 1946
    Sister     COOK, Lavina Anne [I0147] 20 Aug 1869 27 Apr 1935
    Brother     COOK, William Prince [I0143] 14 Jul 1871 5 Mar 1959
    Brother     COOK, James [I0189] 6 Jan 1874 1936
         COOK, Ann 31 Jan 1885 22 Oct 1940
    Brother     COOK, Samuel Joseph [I0152] 6 Sep 1876 9 Aug 1940
    Brother     COOK, John James Joseph [I0190] 28 Mar 1879
    Sister     COOK, Mary Elizabeth [I0146] 10 Sep 1881 2 Mar 1944
    Sister     COOK, Sarah [I2113] 1889
    Sister     COOK, Sarah Ann (Daisy) [I0149] 14 Feb 1889 11 Aug 1976
    Brother     COOK, Thomas Francis Hilton [I0150] 28 Mar 1894 4 Mar 1967

Source References

  1. Yellow Book [S0000]