Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth…Pascal Cook-12362…Information

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Short of being a Jones, a Smith or perhaps a Brown, we Cooks have the short end of the stick when it comes to genealogical research.

Today I seek information about Cook-12362 who is known to my family as Pascal. (We've named children after him as befits our tradition of using family names.)  

The problem? I can trace a reference to a "Paschel Cook" and a biographical reference to a "Paschal Cook" who probably lived in the right time and space to be married to the well-documented "Nancy Lewis Thornton Cook" for whom my grandfather, Lewis Thornton Cook was named. Pascal (for that is what we will probably always call him) was the father of the amazing newspaper man, George Addison Cook. Had great-grandfather George written a bit more about his father or at least mentioned Pascal's middle name, we would have one more clamp to climb  the Wikitree. George did not.

I leave it to you, dear fellow Tree climbers. Any info out there about Cook-12362?  

Cooks everywhere will love you- and probably invite you to dinner.
WikiTree profile: Pascal Cook
in The Tree House by Dorothy Coakley G2G6 Pilot (183k points)
This is one of the best questions I have read.  I don't have any Cooks on my tree (yet) or any at my house (but I would love one).
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VIncent Piazza has done yeoman's duty in straightening out the mystery of Pascal Cook, who (wouldn't you know it) still occasionally appears as "Paschal Cook. "

The key factor?  The subject (Cook-12362) and his wife are listed as being born in Kentucky though they did move to Missouri. And I can live with that! (They did.)

Vincent also found the orphaned profile of "Margaret Cook." I adopted her. What's a person to do when a relative comes knocking at the door?

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Paschal H Cook

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MyHeritage Family Trees

courtney family Web Site, managed by james courtney

Birth: Day Month 1811
Death: Day Month 1888
Wife: Name of wife
Daughter: Name of daughter

 

 

 

Pascal Cook

1860 United States Federal Census

Birth: Circa 1811 - Place
Residence: 1860 - Place
Wife (implied): Name of spouse
Children (implied): Addison Cook and name of one more child
by Chris Mckinnon G2G6 Pilot (609k points)
Thanks, Chris. I've gotten an extensive amount of information from Vincent so I'm closing the question. Wanted to let you know, however, that unless you subscribe to "My Heritage," the only information available in a cut-and-paste is the template. Wikitree's appeal to many is that it is tree-sharing and free. …just sayin'…but thank you so much anyway! WIKITREE and its community rock!

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