Descendants of Joshua CROOK

Notes

46. George Harris CROOK

According to his daughter Evelyn's (b1902) birth certificate George was a cotton spinner.  The cotton business was collapsing around when George died.

Birth: George Harris Crook
Year of Registration: 1854  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
DISTRICT: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 247

Marriage: George Harris Crook
Spouse: Annie Bradshaw  
Year of Registration: 1895  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
DISTRICT: Ormskirk  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8b  
Page: 1156

George Harris Crook was involved in the Bolton Unitarian movement.

Death: UK GRO Oct-Dec 1920, George H Crook, aged 66, Ormskirk, Vol 8b, page 928

98. Reginald Harris CROOK

Birth: Reginald Harris Crook
Year of Registration: 1896  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Bolton  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 442

Death: Reginald H Crook, 58 years, Oct-Dec 1954, Southport, 10f, 625

99. Evelyn Mary CROOK

Birth: Evelyn Mary Crook
Year of Registration: 1902  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
DISTRICT: Ormskirk  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8b  
Page: 872

Evelyn was born at her mothers home at 40 Westcliffe Road, Birkdale in 1902.  She was at a finishing school in Belguim when her father George Harris Crook died.  She was not brought home for the funeral and always felt she missed her father's passing.

Marriage: UK GRO Jul-Sep 1925, Robert Holden Baxendell to Evelyn Mary Crook, Ormskirk 8b 1667

She died of breast cancer in 1978.  She visited Australia on as least two occasions and was present in Sydney in 1976 for her granddaughter, Jane's, wedding.  She was very deaf in her latter years and was learning to lip read.

She was Unitarian and was Confirmed in the Church England before her marriage.

Death: Jul-Sep 1978, Evelyn Mary Baxendell, birth - 6 Apr 1902, Macclesfld 35 0555

47. Joshua Sidney CROOK

Birth: Joshua Sidney Crook
Year of Registration: 1855  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 259

Marriage: Joshua Sidney Crook
Spouse: Maud Emily Holden  
Year of Registration: 1892  
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep  
District: Barnet  
County: Greater London, Hertfordshire, Middlesex  
Volume: 3a  
Page: 357

Joshua Sidney Crook was a former director of Messrs. Joshua Crook and Sons Ltd. on Deane Road, Bolton, and a member of a family that has been associated with the cotton trade in Bolton for well over a century.  As a young man he, along with two brothers, became a partner with their father in about 1880 as Joshua Crook and Sons, and four years later the firm was reorganised as a limited liability company.  Joshua Sidney Crook became a director and remained in that position until the company was reconstructed during the post war boom in 1920.  Since then Joshua Sidney Crook had not lived in Bolton.  He was formerly a member of the Bolton Reform Club, and was connected with Bank Street Chapel.

He died aged 81 leaving a widow, to whom he was married only about five years.

Death: Joshua S Crook
Year of Registration: 1936  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Aged: 81
District: Honiton  
County:
Volume: 5b  
Page: 26

Maud Emily HOLDEN

Marriage: Joshua Sidney Crook
Spouse: Maud Emily Holden  
Year of Registration: 1892  
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep  
District: Barnet  
County: Greater London, Hertfordshire, Middlesex  
Volume: 3a  
Page: 357

101. Isobel Mary CROOK

Birth: Isobel Mary Crook
Year of Registration: 1893  
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 382

49. Arthur Tipping CROOK

Birth: Arthur Tipping Crook
Year of Registration: 1859  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 286?

According to an article in the "Journal and Guardian" of 19 May 1939 commenting on Arthur's 80th birthday it commented that Arthur Tipping Crook was one of those men who got through a great deal of public work without ever attracting much limelight to themselves.  He was the sort who "do good by stealth and blush to find it fame".  Indeed he would have been the last man to claim that he had done a great deal. And yet for the latter half of his 80 years he had been continuously active in one way or another, and generally in several areas at the same time.  It was characteristic of him that, having put his hand to a particular piece of work he generally remained loyal to it, the exception being that he relinquished his seat on the Town Council after 13 years.  He had a very long connection with the District Nursing Association, of which his daughter, Miss Jean Crook, was the hon. secretary, and had been its chairman since 1921; he had sat on the Royal Infirmary Committee since 1915, and was particularly interested in the Newlands Nursing Home; he had been on the board of the Savings Bank, as manager and trustee, since 1917, and had been its president for some years past; and had been a borough magistrate for 35 years.  And he was Bolton's first special constable at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Jane GLADSTONE

Ref and Ancestry Message board

http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.crook/361.3.1/mb.ashx

"Arthur Tipping Crook and was born in Bolton in 1859. He married a Jane Gladstone."

102. Doris Isabel CROOK

Birth: Doris Isabel Crook
Year of Registration: 1886  
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec  
District: Bolton  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 389

Marriage: Doris Isabel Crook
Year of Registration: 1910  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 78[9_]

103. Jean Whitfield CROOK

Birth: Jean Whitfield Crook
Year of Registration: 1890  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
District: Bolton  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 281

105. Annie Gladstone CROOK

Birth: Annie Gladstone Crook
Year of Registration: 1897  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 407

Death: Annie Gladstone Bennett
Birth Date: 22 Jan 1897
Death Registration Month/Year: Nov 1987
Age at death (estimated): 90  
Registration district: Oswestry  
Inferred County: Denbighshire, Shropshire  
Volume: 30  
Page: 187

50. Annabella CROOK

Birth: Annabella Crook
Year of Registration: 1861  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 286

Marriage: Annabella Crook
Spouse: Robert Heywood
Year of Registration: 1883  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Bolton  
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire  
Volume: 8c  
Page: 465

Marriage: 1883, CROOK Annabella, HEYWOOD Robert, Bolton Register Office or Registrar Attended, Bolton RO/75/174