General Notes

(Research):SOURCE:  England and Wales, Civil Registration Index:  1837-1983  -  ancestry.com

Chard
Created 1st July 1837. Mainly in Somerset, but included parts of Devonshire and Dorset.

Sub-districts : Chard; Combe St. Nicholas; Crewkerne; Ilminster.
GRO volumes : X (1837-51); 5c (1852-1930).

Ashill, Broadway, Buckland St. Mary, Chaffcombe, Chard, Chard Borough, Chillington, Combe St. Nicholas, Crewkerne, Cricket Malherbie, Cricket St. Thomas, Cudworth, Dinnington, Donyatt, Dowlish Wake, Hinton St. George, Ilminster, Ilton, Kingstone, Knowle St. Giles, Merriot, Misterton (from 1895), Seavington St. Mary, Seavington St. Michael, Shepton Beauchamp, Stocklinch Magdalen, Stocklinch Ottersey, Wambrook (from 1895), Wayford, West Crewkerne, West Dowlish, Whitelackington, Whitestaunton, Winsham.

Registers now divided between Yeovil <regoff.html> and East Devon <regoff.html> districts.
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SOURCE:  A Topographical Dictionary of England: Volume 4
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                  page 140            (ancestry.com)


SPAXTON, a parish in the hundred of CANNINGTON, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (W.) from Bridgwater, containing 816 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,[p.140] in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £24. 8. 9., and in the patronage of the Rev. William Gordon. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. The Rev. Joseph Cook, in 1708, bequeathed lands producing a liberal income for the maintenance of six poor persons in an hospital, for teaching poor children, and other charitable purposes. A Topographical Dictionary of England

NOTE:  Is this Joseph COOK related?
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SOURCE:  1850 Census - Southern District #2, Hardin County, Kentucky - Page 767 or 384, Line 1, Visit 1, Image 1 on ancestry.com  (6 August 1850)

COOK, William, 48, Male, Blacksmith, $1500, England, -, 4
         , Louisa, 33, Female, England
         , Sarah Ann, 21, Female, Indiana,
         , Richard M., 20, Male, Blacksmith, Indiana
         , Joseph, 15, Male, Farmer, Kentucky
         , Elizabeth, 13, Female, Kentucky
         , Henrietta, 10, Female, Kentucky
         , Joanna, 8, Female, Kentucky
         , Mary Ann, 6, Female, Kentucky
         , Amanda W, 1, Female, Kentucky
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SOURCE:  1860 Census - Glendale (District 1), Hardin, Kentucky - Page 155, Line 5, Visit 434, Image 157 on ancestry.com  (11 July 1860)

COOK, William, 57, M, Farmer & Blacksmith, $3720, $1000, Eng
         , Louisa, 37, Female, England
         , Henrietta, 21, Female, Kentucky
         , Joanna, 19, Female, Kentucky
         , Mary A., 16, Female, Kentucky
         , Louisa, 13, Female, Kentucky
         , Amanda, 11, Female, Kentucky

NOTE:  Is this William the son of Joseph & Rachel??
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