Elizabeth Cook (1741-1835)

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Elizabeth Cook (1830), portrait by William Henderson

Elizabeth Cook (born February 4, 1741 in Wapping , London , † May 13, 1835 in Clapham , Surrey ; née Batts ) was the wife of the British navigator and explorer James Cook .

Life

Elizabeth Cook was the daughter of the innkeeper couple Samuel and Mary Batts, who ran a beer tavern at Execution Dock in Wapping . Shortly after Elizabeth was born, her father died. Her mother remarried in Shadwell in July 1745 . Elizabeth was placed in the care of a befriended Quaker family in Ilford , where she grew up.

Elizabeth married James Cook on December 21, 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking , Essex , shortly after the latter returned from his second voyage. The couple had six children together:

  • James Cook (born October 13, 1763 - † January 25, 1794)
  • Nathaniel Cook (14 December 1764 - October 1780), lost at sea
  • Elizabeth Cook (1767-9 April 1771)
  • Joseph Cook (born August 26, 1768 - † September 13, 1768)
  • George Cook (8 July 1772 - 1 October 1772)
  • Hugh Cook (23 May 1776 - 21 December 1793)

After the death of her husband on February 14, 1779 in the Bay of Kealakekua in Hawaii , Elizabeth Cook received an annual pension of 200 pounds from the Admiralty . 1788 she moved to Clapham in the county of Surrey about where she died on 13 May 1835 at the age of 94 years. Elizabeth Cook was buried next to her sons James and Hugh in St. Andrew The Great Church , Cambridge . She donated £ 1,000 in securities to the church to maintain the tomb and to help those in need.

The historical novel Last Journey by Anna Enquist is mainly about the life of Elizabeth Cook.

literature

  • Marele Day: Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife . Allen & Unwin, 2003, ISBN 1865088021 .
  • John Dunmore: Mrs Cook's Book of Recipes: For Mariners in Distant Seas . Exisle Publishing Pty Limited, 2006.
  • Herbert Hope Lockwood: Captain Cook and a voyage of discovery around Ilford . In: Ilford and District Historical Society's newsletter . Number 39, 1994.
  • Shirley Sinclair: Elizabeth Cook: the Captain's wife, 1741-1835 . Maritime Heritage Press, ISBN 978-1876059019 .
  • Famous 18th century people in Barking and Dagenham: James Cook and Dick Turpin . London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Local Studies Information Sheet No. 22 PDF .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Library - New South Wales
  2. ↑ Archive Photograph Galleries ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lbbd.gov.uk
  3. ^ Unauthorized : Captain Cook's Family Tree , Captain Cook Society website, online , accessed January 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ cf. February 14, 1779 in Paul Capper: The Third Voyage (1776–1780)
  5. ↑ without author: Tuesday's Post Continued. London, June 2 . In: Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England) , June 6, 1835, Issue 4284
  6. ↑ without author: St Andrew-the-Great Church, Cambridge . In: Cook's Log , Volume 9, Issue 3, 1986, p. 456, ISSN  1358-0639 , online , accessed January 26, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Elizabeth Batts
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English wife of James Cook
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Wapping , London
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1835
Place of death Clapham , West Sussex