.Joseph Christopher Cook

.Joseph Christopher Cook 1910-1982

1910 Joseph Christopher Cook was born to Thomas Cook & Rhoda Watson on 5/11/1910. Baptised on 20/11/1910, address 4 Globe Buildings, Rotherhithe

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1911C. Joseph Cook, 5 months, was living 4 Globe Bldgs, Beastop Street, Bermondsey with his parents, 3 siblings and a boarder. They were living in 3 rooms, his parents had been married 9 years, & had 7 children of whom 3 had died

Thomas	Cook	Head	Married	Male	30	1881	Dock labourer	Rotherhithe London
Rhoda	Cook	Wife	Married	Female	30	1881	-	Rotherhithe London
Rhoda	Cook	Daughter	Single	Female	9	1902	School	Rotherhithe London
Thomas	Cook	Son	Single	Male	8	1903	School	Rotherhithe London
Alice	Cook	Daughter	Single	Female	4	1907	-	-
Joseph	Cook	Son	Single	Male	0	1911	-	Rotherhithe
George	Middleton	Boarder	Married	Male	31	1880	Lighterman	Newcastle

1934.

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1934 Joseph Christopher Cook, 23, stevedore, married Jessie Elizabeth Segrott , 21, factory hand, on 26/8/1934 in St Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey. His father Thomas Cook, deal porter; hers Jacob William Sefrott, builders labourer. Witnesses were Thomas Albert Victor Cook ^ Alice May Cook - elder siblings

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L to R. ?, Jessie’s brother Tom, Joe, ?, Jessie, ?, Joe’s sister Mary (we think), Joe’s sister Ginnie , Jessie’s dad Jacob ODD her mother, Jessie 1873, is not in this??

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Early photo of Jessie & Joe,

Early on they lived in Lucy Road and Smyrkes Road off The Old Kent Road

.1938. Christopher Cook was born in April 1938 to Joseph & Jessie

1939 Register. Jessie E Cook & Joseph C Cook were hoppicking at Hoppickers Encampment Yew Tree Farm, Broad Oak, Tonbridge along with jessie's father, Jacob W Segrott 1870, and Maureen Segrott 1934, who then went on to marry a Dent. Her mother was Cook. �. She was the daughter of Jacob C Segrott 1898(son of Jacob 1870) and Beatrice Maud Cook 1896, whose mother was Gilbert . So, looked for a marriage of a Cook to a Gilbert 1880-1896 : an Alfred Cook married Harriet Emily Gilbert in 1882, BUT, do not know whether this Albert Cook bares any relationship to Chris's Cooks, probably not!!

Also at the farm, in a different group, are Beatrice M Segrott 1896 and, seemingly, 2 other children, Beatrice E 1925 and Stanley C 1927, siblings of Maureen

There is also a Closed Record with Joseph C, Jessie. Jacob and Maureen : this could well have been 1 yr old Chris. Did he know about hop picking holidays?

1939-1945.

He worked in the docks which was being heavily bombed as the Germans were hoping to disrupt the supplies coming into it. The docks got so badly damaged it was closed and he joined the Royal Artillery as a gunner, firstly at Woolwich.

Chris, can recall him coming along the road one day, with a friend, to visit on his way to Gravesend. The guns at Gravesend targeted the German aircraft as they traced the River Thames towards London. Later he was posted to Gibraltar and eventually into Germany as they retreated.

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Joe served in Gibraltar & Germany. He was a chief Gunner, far right

Tidy the below!!

Joe worked in the docks as did his father and grand father. He started as "slip way man", cleaning down the muddy slip way at the rivers edge, probably about 14 yrs old.

He was a cargo handler, loading & unloading loose cargoes, like sugar & cement. Dirty jobs that caked to his clothes & skin.

He joined the Army in WW2 after the docks were bombed and closed. He was 26 then and considered the old man of his Gunnery unit.

Trained at Gravesend gun emplacement before going to Gibraltar. Later moved across Germany as they retreated.

Had one narrow miss from a doodlebug that landed close to their gun.

Returned to the docks after the war, later becoming a gear man, preparing the gear that was required for each ship in dock.

When he retired Jessie & Joe left their rented house in Erith and bought a small cottage in Faversham, which Chris helped them to enhance & decorate.

They both liked to socialise and being from the docks area, drinking was a favourite pastime.

" had a good sense of humour.

Chris was their only child but they were close to family and used to mix with them frequently

1945 onwards. The family of 3 went on regular September Hop picking holidays in Kent with other of Jessie's relations

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Joe, Jessie, Joe’s sister Jennie & her husband Bill . . . . . . . . .Jessie & Chris . .... Joe, Chris, Jessie & Jacob, (probably know as Jack

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Early 1960s.

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On holiday with Dwyer Cousins - Jessie, Michael, Jennie, Rita, Uncle Bill, Chris & Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe with cousin Bill (in the pub of course !) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe ~1980

1982. Joseph Christopher Cook died Swale Kent Mar 1982

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