Mother of Captain James Cook, FRS, RN, British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
Grace and James Cook had eight children. Four died in childhood. John, the eldest son, died aged 23. The five are buried with her and are recorded on the back of her headstone. Only the second son James and his sisters Margaret and Christiana survived. Margaret married a man named Fleck of Redcar, and Christiana married a fisherman named Cocker of Staithes.
After the death of Grace Cook, James Cook senior went to live with his daughter Margaret in Redcar. He died six weeks after his son was killed, without ever knowing the tragic news.
He is buried in St Germain's Churchyard, Marske-by-the-Sea.
Mother of Captain James Cook, FRS, RN, British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
Grace and James Cook had eight children. Four died in childhood. John, the eldest son, died aged 23. The five are buried with her and are recorded on the back of her headstone. Only the second son James and his sisters Margaret and Christiana survived. Margaret married a man named Fleck of Redcar, and Christiana married a fisherman named Cocker of Staithes.
After the death of Grace Cook, James Cook senior went to live with his daughter Margaret in Redcar. He died six weeks after his son was killed, without ever knowing the tragic news.
He is buried in St Germain's Churchyard, Marske-by-the-Sea.
Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
GRACE COOK WHO DIED FEB. 18 1765,
AGED 63 YEARS
AND OF JAMES COOK WHO WAS BURIED AT MARSKE
APRIL 1ST 1779
THE ABOVE JAMES AND GRACE COOK
WERE THE PARENTS OF THE
CELEBRATED CIRCUMNAVIGATOR
JAMES COOK,
WHO WAS BORN AT MARTON OCT 27TH 1728,
EDUCATED IN THIS VILLAGE
AND KILLED AT OWHYHEE
DEC. 14TH 1779.
Gravesite Details
The date shown on the headstone for Capt. Cook's death is wrong - it should be Feb. 14th 1779
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