Cooke, Samuel John

Samuel John Cooke, 1814-1874


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Samuel John Cooke: Profile Biography Research Notes

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Columns:	R [Role]; S [Sources].

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Life Events

Born:	4 March 1814	Hammersmith, Middlesex, England [01] [02].
Baptised:	23 October 1818	St George's Church of England Bloomsbury, Camden, Middlesex, England [03].
Married:	29 November 1847	All Saints' Church of England, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to Martha Bousfield [1819-1869] [04].
Arrived:	Before April 1852	TBD [05].
Departed:	25 November 1854	Returned to England on the P&O steamship Norna [06] [07].
Died:	25 August 1874	St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England [08] [09].
Buried:	29 August 1874	Camden, London, England [10].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:

Gold Commissioner:

1851

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1852-05-01	1852-12-13			Assistant Commissioner	Victoria	Gold Fields			Sub-Treasurer.

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Notes
01⇑	London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 12 December 2023].
02⇑	Date from the baptism record. The 1851 Census says he was born in Fulham, the 1861 Census says Hammersmith, and the baptism has the family living in Greenland Place, St Pancras.
03⇑	London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 12 December 2023]. Baptised as Samuel Cooke.
04⇑	Cambridgeshire Marriages, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 12 December 2023].
05⇑	Cooke's first Victorian Public Service appointment was on 1 May 1852, gazetted 28 April 1852.
06⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Cleared Out; The Argus (Melbourne), 27 November 1854, p 4 [Trove; 2 January 2024].
07⇑	Cooke's family travelled after the birth of their fourth child in Geelong in 1855 and fifth child in England in 1856.
08⇑	Deaths - Cooke; Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 29 August 1874, p 8 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 2 January 2024].
09⇑	One modern source has St Mary-in-the Castle.
10⇑	UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 2 January 2024].

Further Reading

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-12-12	Life Events updated and references added.