Descendants of Joshua CROOK
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Birth: John Biggs Howard Crook
Year of Registration: 1857
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 306Marriage: John Biggs H Crook
Spouse: Florence Cecilia Keep
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Marylebone (1837-1901)
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 913
Possible marriage: Florence B Crook
Year of Registration: 1915
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Spouse's Surname: Banks
District: Gloucester (1837-1937)
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 945
Birth: Edward Tipping Crook
Year of Registration: 1859
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 317Edward became a cotton spinner employer.
Marriage: Edward Tipping Crook
Spouse: Hilda Perry
Year of Registration: 1890
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 7b
Page: 382
Birth: Evelyn Hilda P Crook
Year of Registration: 1891
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 401Marriage: Evelyn H P Crook
Spouse: Cecil C Farrer
Year of Registration: 1919
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bridgnorth
County: Shropshire
Volume: 6a
Page: 1731
Birth: Philip Joseph Crook
Year of Registration: 1892
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 418In the Unitarian chapel in Bank Street is a memorial on the South wall to Lieutenant Phillip Crook who was killed in action in 1917 during General Alenby's campaign in Palestine in the First World War:
'In proud and loving memory of Phillip Joseph Crook Lieutenant in the Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry. Killed in Action at Wadi Hesi, Palestine November 17th 1917. This was erected by his parents Edward and Hilda Crook and sisters, Evelyn, Anne and Sybil.'
Birth: Aline Mary Crook
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 404
Birth: Sybil Helen Crook
Year of Registration: 1895
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 371
Birth: Thomas Ashley Crook
Year of Registration: 1862
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 3_3Marriage: Thomas Ashley Crook
Spouse: Emma Daisy Whitley
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Halifax
County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire
Volume: 9a
Page: 810Thomas became a Bleacher (Magistrate) employer.
Birth: Emma Whitley
Year of Registration: 1867
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Halifax
County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire
Volume: 9a
Page: 381
Birth: Eric Ashley Crook
Year of Registration: 1894
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bury
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 534
Birth: Dorothy Whitley Crook
Year of Registration: 1897
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Bury
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 564Death: Dorothy Whitley Dixon
Birth Date: 2 Nov 1898
Death Registration Month/Year: Apr 1988
Age at death (estimated): 89
Registration district: Bradford
Inferred County: Yorkshire
Volume: 4
Page: 105
Birth: Ellen Marsden Haslam
Year of Registration: 1843
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 21
Page: 98Marriage: Ellen Marsden Haslam
Spouse: Robert Millington Knowles
Year of Registration: 1867
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 427Marriage: 1867 HASLAM Ellen Marsden KNOWLES Robert Millington Bolton Register Office or Registrar Attended Bolton RO/30/50
Death: Ellen Marsden Knowles
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Year of Registration: 1872
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at Death: 29
District: Isle of Wight
County: Hampshire, Isle of Wight
Volume: 2b
Page: 355
Marriage: Ellen Marsden Haslam
Spouse: Robert Millington Knowles
Year of Registration: 1867
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 427Marriage: Robert Millington Knowles
Spouse: Alice Katherine Brooks
Year of Registration: 1875
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Foleshill
County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 563
Marriage: William Haslam
Spouse: Mary Heywood
Year of Registration: 1872
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 530Marriage: 1872 HASLAM William HEYWOOD Mary Bolton Register Office or Registrar Attended Bolton RO/46/119
Birth: John Percival Haslam
Year of Registration: 1847
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 21
Page: 110Marriage: John Percival Haslam
Spouse: Clara Emily Clare
Year of Registration: 1873
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Market Bosworth
County: Leicestershire
Volume: 7a
Page: 153
Birth: Mary Ursula C Haslam
Year of Registration: 1883
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 352
Birth: Percy Lovell C Haslam
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 361
Birth: Florence Emily C Haslam
Year of Registration: 1889
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 364
Birth: Lewis Haslam
Year of Registration: 1856
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 287Marriage: Lewis Haslam
Spouse: Helen Norma Dixon
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Henley
County: Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 1205
Birth: Helen Evelyn V Haslam
Year of Registration: 1894
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Kensington
County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 152
Birth: Lilian Viola V Haslam
Year of Registration: 1897
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Kensington
County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 169
John was a merchant and stockbroker living in Southport, Lancashire.
Marriags: John Crook
Spouse: Mary Ann Bradshaw
Year of Registration: 1875
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 370From the Bolton Evening News, first published Thursday 1st Jun 2000.
125 YEARS AGO
THIS morning, in the Bolton Parish Church, the nuptials of John Crook, Esq., son of John Crook, Esq., cotton spinner, of Birkdale, Southport, and grandson of the late Joshua Crook, Esq., of White Bank, Rumworth, with Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Bradshaw, Esq., of Heath Bank, Chorley New-road, Bolton, were solemnised in the presence of a large and fashionable congregation. Soon after ten o'clock the sacred edifice began to fill, and by eleven o'clock, the time for the arrival of the wedding party, there was a numerous company. From the gates of the churchyard to the church, scarlet cloth was laid on the path. A few minutes after eleven o'clock, a subdued whisper amongst the congregation announced the arrival of the bride leaning on the arm of her father. The bride was met at the altar by the bridegroom, and the proper positions being taken up, the ceremony commenced. The 'happy pair' leave on their wedding tour this afternoon, their destination being Switzerland. The presents to the bride were of an exceedingly valuable kind.
irth: Ethel Crook
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 755
Birth: John Kenneth Crook
Year of Registration: 1877
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 765Possible marriage: John Kenneth Crook
Year of Registration: 1908
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 1230
Birth: Ernest Wilson Crook
Year of Registration: 1881
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 816Death: Ernest Wilson Crook
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Year of Registration: 1892
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 11
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 662
Birth: Joseph Herbert Crook
Year of Registration: 1885
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 827Possible marriage: Joseph H Crook
Spouse: Maud Wickham
Year of Registration: 1914
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 1427
Birth: Arthur Bradshaw Crook
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 79
Marriage: Edith Margaret Crook
Spouse: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 683Edith married her cousin Charles Higgins.
Birth: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1854
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Salford
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 16Marriage: Edith Margaret Crook
Spouse: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 683Charles married his cousin Edith Margaret Crook.
Marriage: Laura Elizabeth Crook
Spouse: Frank Poynting
Year of Registration: 1887
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 776
Birth: Eric Auchinvole Poynting
Year of Registration: 1889
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 643
Birth: Lucy Rosalind Poynting
Year of Registration: 1890
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 637
Birth: Ronald Henry Poynting
Year of Registration: 1892
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 644
38. Leopold George Harris CROOK
Birth: CROOK, Leopold George Harris
Quarter: September
Year: 1862
District: Bolton
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 238Marriage: Leopold George H Crook
Spouse: Ellen Brackenbury
Year of Registration: 1885
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Volume: 7a
Page: 799Leopold was a Unitarian Monister.
Death: Leopold George H Crook
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863
Year of Registration: 1895
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 32
District: Bedminster
County: Gloucestershire, Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 576
90. Margaret Brackenbury CROOK
Birth: Margaret Brackenbury Crook
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Newent
County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 275
Birth: Wilfrid Harris Crook
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 640
From: Charter Members of The Torch Club of Western Maine (Established September 30, 1929)Portland, Maine.
Wilfrid Harris Crook was born in Swinton, Lancashire, England on May 16, 1888. He received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford’s Lincoln College in 1911 and a master of arts degree from the same institution in 1914. He spent three years of post-graduate work at Oxford’s Manchester College before accepting a Hibbert Scholarship to study at Harvard University. In 1919 he became the Assistant Minister at Boston’s Central Congregational Church, in association with the Rev. Dr. Willard L. Sperry, later dean of the Harvard School of Theology.
In 1920 Crook became a naturalized U.S. citizen. In 1922 and 1923 he served as an instructor at Simmons College in Boston. Crook continued his teaching career at Bowdoin College where he was hired as an assistant professor of economics and sociology in 1923. While a member of the Bowdoin faculty, Crook earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1928. In 1929, Dr. Crook became a charter member of the Torch Club of Western Maine. He enjoys the distinction of having delivered the Club’s first paper, entitled “Are There Too Many 'Interlectuals’?,” at the Club’s first meeting in Portland on November 13, 1929.
Dr. Crook married Evelyn Buchan, also a sociologist, and in 1930 he was promoted to the position of associate professor. Dr. Crook published The General Strike, Labor’s Tragic Weapon in Theory and Practice in 1931. He left Bowdoin that same year and became an instructor at Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts. He then taught at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. During World War II Dr. Crook worked with both the National War Labor Board and the National Wage Stabilization Board. Following the war, Dr. Crook joined the faculty of Colgate University in New York where he became chair of the Department of Economics.
Dr. Crook remained at Colgate until his retirement in 1956. Following his retirement, Dr. Crook moved to Decatur, Georgia and published his second book, Communism and the General Strike, in 1960.
Dr. Crook died in Decatur on April 16, 1963 at age 74.
Compiled from material located at:
—George J. Mitchell Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College
Birth: Waldo Neville H Crook
Year of Registration: 1894
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Wolverhampton
County: Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands
Volume: 6b
Page: 582
Birth: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1854
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Salford
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 16Marriage: Edith Margaret Crook
Spouse: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 683Charles married his cousin Edith Margaret Crook.
Marriage: Edith Margaret Crook
Spouse: Charles Napier Higgin
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 683Edith married her cousin Charles Higgins.
