Hi List Lots of activity on the lsit ...good to see. Here is some information that I hope will help somebody Cook(e): 2 Brothers, both sons of Richard Cook and Elizabeth Story, ( Richard and Elizabeth were both born Ireland and settled Augusta) married in Eastern Ontario but were living before, during and after their marriages in California. 005387-76 Leeds Grenville Crosby Cook,30, Dairyman, born Augusta, living in Marin County Ca, S/O Richard Cook and Elizabeth Story, married Mary Ann Graham, 24, Born South Mountain Tp SDG, living in Oxford Tp, D/O William John Graham and Jane Thompson, Dec 22nd, 1875 at Oxford. Wit: Thomas Cook (brother?) and Ellan "?Minidel??? " Minaker? of Oxford. Crosby and Mary Ann were in Marin County, Tomales in the 1880 USA census with no children as of 1880. I have no further information on them but those Augusta Cooks did get about!! 010289-74 John Cook,33,Batchelor, born Augusta, living in Valleyford, Sonoma, Ca, S/O Richard Cook and Elizabeth Cook married Margaret Forward, born Matilda, SD&G, Living in Winchester, SD&G, D/O James and Ann Forward, May 19, 1874 at Winchester. Witnesses were James and Thomas Forward. 1880 USA Census finds John and Margaret living near his bro Crosby but in a different county, Sonoma, Ca. The couple has a daughter Gertrude M Cook aged one year. Did they stay in Ca ? Do they have descendents there? I have not yet establsihed a paper trail but I postulate that the Augusta Cooks somehow tie to the Elizabethtown Cooks via the Story family. My great Grand Mother was Sarah Jane Cooke, born Feb 4th 1836 to parents Robert and Sarah Jane, St Peters, Brockville, Elizabethtown. We think, but maybe can never prove, that our Sarah Jane, who was often confused as Sarah ANN, was at the Inn run by Thomas Story in Escott as enumerated in the 1852 census. (Enumerated January 1852). >From a militia roll I know that Robert Cooke was 36 years in 1829 so born about 1793 .I surmise the couple may have married in Ireland, emmigrating in the 1820s. Robert and Sarah Jane Cooke had children 1828-1837 as recorded by Lisa Russel at the Ontario Diocese, in Elizabethtown but then they just disappear!! They remain very elusive. Rob McGinn in Thunder Bay