Robert Woodruff Cooke

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Pedigree
Robert Woodruff Cooke, son of Dr. Robert Woodruff Cooke, MD and Susan Gansevoort, was born at Holmdel, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, 19 December 1837.1,2,3 He died at Bala, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, 4 October 1917,4,5,6 and was buried in the Cooke plot at the Old Brick Reformed Church Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.7,8

Robert married Hulda Holmes Van Mater at Holmdel 22 June 1868.9

His stone at the Old Brick Reformed Church is perhaps a cenotaph, a monument erected to honor someone buried elsewhere. The Roseboom Genealogy indicates he moved to Philadelphia in 1890.7

Family

Hulda Holmes Van Mater b. abt. 23 Mar 1844, d. 20 May 1924
Children
  • Robert G. Cooke10 b. 20 Sep 1869, d. 11 Mar 1950
  • Gilbert V. M. Cooke10 b. 10 Nov 1871, d. 26 Jan 1912
  • Henry G. Cooke10 b. abt. 1876
This person was last edited on1 Feb 2023

Citations

  1. [S145] Catharine Roseboom, J. Livingston Roseboom, Henry U. Swinnerton and Joseph H. White, A Brief History of the Ancestors and Descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832): 1630-1897 (Cherry Valley, New York: Co-operative Press, 1897), 52, further cited as Roseboom, et al., Roseboom Ancestry.
  2. [S457] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Census [on-line database and images] (http://www.ancestry.com), Raritan Township, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, population schedule, sheet #194, dwelling #133, family #140, Robert Cooke household, age 12, born in New Jersey; original data: NARA micropublication M432, Seventh Census of the United States, 1009 rolls, roll #456.
  3. [S458] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Census [on-line database and images] (http://www.ancestry.com), Holmdel Township, Key Port Post Office, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, population schedule, sheet #28, dwelling #181, family #172, Robt Cooke household, age 21, born in New Jersey; original data: NARA micropublication M653, Eighth Census of the United States, 1438 rolls, roll #701.
  4. [S1050] Maria Cowdrey Cooke. Cooke and allied families, Compiled vital records data (no sources), Gregory Cooke, Clarkdale, Arizona.
  5. [S2269] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1967,, Internet database online at ancestry.com), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
  6. [S2409] Newspapers.com, on-line database and images, "Obituary", Robert W. Cooke, Monmouth Democrat, (Freehold, New Jersey), 18 Oct 1917, p. 1, (https://www.newspapers.com/): accessed Jan 2023.
  7. [S145] Roseboom, et al., Roseboom Ancestry, 53.
  8. [S1012] Grave Stone, Cooke Graveyard at the Old Brick Reformed Church Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; Photographed by Bruce Mitchell, June 2003.
  9. [S1301] Trenton, New Jersey, Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths of New Jersey, 1848-1900, B.H.:516, FHL microfilm 494146 img 532, further cited as New Jersey Vital Records.
  10. [S460] Ancestry.com, 1880 United States Census [on-line database and images] (http://www.ancestry.com), Shrewsbury Twp, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, population schedule, sheet #465A, dwelling #471, family #493, Robt W. Cook household; original data: NARA micropublication T9, Tenth Census of the United States, 1454 rolls, roll #792.