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Herman Kook (1807 - 1887)

Herman Kook
Born in Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeckmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at age 80 [location unknown]
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Biography

Herman was born in 1807. Herman Kook passed away in 1887. Married Matilde Marz - Birth 19 Jan 1819 - Death 12 May 1898 [1]

Hermann KOOK 1807-1887 & Matilde Emilie Auguste MAERZ 1819-1898 Prussia; Tanunda, SA; Carapook, Vic; Hay, NSW, Australia

KOOK tombstones Darlington Point, NSWHermann KOOK, widower, aged 41, married Matilda Emilie Auguste MAERZ (1819-1898) at Tanunda, South Australia in 1849. Four children were born in SA from 1849-1853 before the family moved to Victoria with their last known child born at Raglan in the goldfields area c1856.

Hermann KOOK, a surveyor, had emigrated from Germany on the "Zebra" in 1838 with a large group of Lutheran immigrants who established the settlement of Hahndorf, east of Adelaide. He appears to have surveyed the original settlement of Hahndorf in 1839 where he was allocted block No.1.

Further research found that The surveyor Hermann Kook laid out the village Hahndorf as a “hufendorf” or “farmlet village” based on a plan used in Eastern Europe since the 10th Century. [2]

By 1875 Hermann KOOK was a Farmer at Carapook in south-western Victoria. His son Hermann had married at Carapook in 1872.

John Augustus KOOK, son of Hermann & Matilda died at Chetwynd in 1884, but most of the family moved north from Carapook in the 1870s to the Hay area of NSW and the parents are buried in the Darlington Point Cemetery on the Murrumbidgee River about 35 km south of Griffith. Hermann KOOK, Farmer of Carapook in 1874 paid £64 rates on a property in the parish of Carapook. The property was located south of Carapook towards Sandford and near the Wannon River.

Hermann KOOK and Matilda MAERZ had the following known family...

  • John Augustus KOOK b. 1849, SA d. 1884, Chetwynd, Vic; m1. Catherine HOWLETT 1851-1879 in 1871, m2. Elizabeth NEILSON 1863-1955 in 1881.
  • Hermann KOOK b. 1850, SA, d. 1938, NSW; m Elizabeth Huf MAYBERY 1852-1939
  • Eliza Matilda KOOK b. 1851, SA, d. 1929 NSW, m. John Hudden LANDER 1837-1927
  • Theodore Richard KOOK b. 1853, SA, d. 1929 NSW m. 1881 in Hay, NSW Isabella MOORE 1844-1914
  • Augusta Agnes KOOK b. 1856, Raglan, Vic, d. 1939, Sydney, NSW, m. 1881 in Hay, NSW to John McCALMAN .....?[3]

Birth

Immigration

Zebra 1838 - Kook, Hermann Friedrich Surveyor / Farmer from Lübeck cabin passenger [4]

Marriage

Groom Given Name(s): Hermann Groom Last Name: KOOK Bride Given Name(s): Matilde Emilie Auguste Bride Last Name: MARZ Marriage Date: 1849, June 07 Marriage Place: Res of Rev W Oldham Kapunda Groom Age: 41 Groom Approx. Birth Year: 1808 Groom Marital Status: W Groom Father: Bride Age: 28 Bride Approx. Birth Year: 1821 Bride Marital Status: S Bride Father Name: District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 12/266[5]

Death

KOOK HERMAN 6067/1887 AGE 80 YEARS[6]

  • Burial

Name Herman Kook Event Type Burial Event Date 13 Mar 1887 Event Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial Place Darlington Pt Birth Date 09 Feb 1807 Spouse's Name Matilda[7][8]

Sources

  1. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLNC-GW5
  2. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192665515?q=Hermann+Kook&l-availability=y&l-australian=y&c=picture&versionId=210831633
  3. http://www.swvic.org/carapook/names/kook.htm
  4. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Zebra_Passenger_list_1837&public=1
  5. https://www.genealogysa.org.au/
  6. https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result?3
  7. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLNC-LY8
  8. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-1BHH




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