Hi Lester, You seem to have quite a bit of info on your ancestors. My 4ggrandfather, Thomas COOKE, came to Kingston Twp. in Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada about 30 or so years before your Robert was born.. My Thomas was a British soldier who came to Quebec with the 34th Regiment, and stayed in Canada. His son, Thomas Jr, b. 1781 Kingston had at least 6 children born Kingston between 1806 & 1815. I doubt there is a connection, but you never can tell. Do you know what religion Robert Cook and Olive Maria Gillett were? Barbara Blake-Krebs Merriam KS barbkkfi@aol.com << Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:53:03 -0500 From: "Clark, Les" <LClark@avio.com> To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <A9E5AAF4F0D8CF1183130020AFF0AAA64215E6@host19.avio.com> Subject: [COOK-L] COOK: New to genealogy query Content-Type: text/plain My ggGrandfather Robert Cook was born in Dunkinfield, Cheshire, England on 14 November 1812. He migrated to Ontario Canada and lived in Frontenac, Kingston Twp. I believe he met and married my ggGrandmother Olive Maria Gillett there. I think she was born in Midland, Kingston Twp. on 10 January 1841. They had a son Thomas Benjamin Cook and migrated to Aurora, Illinois, USA where his mother Olive Maria Cook ran a restaurant on the island. This would have been in the late 1860s or 1870s. Thomas Benjamin Cook married Ida Belle Crouch in Topeka, Kansas in August 1880. His first two children were born in Illinois, presumably Aurora. The family then migrated to the Dakota Territory, BeadleCo and HandCo sometime before 1887 where Olive Maria homesteaded near Huron. Then most of the family including my Grandmother Ruth Caroline Cook migrated to Hughes Springs, Cass, TX. My Grandmother married Frank Leonard Clark and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. I would like to find some cousins descended from Robert Cook. I am very new to genealogy research and would appreciate any pointers for how to approach finding information about my Cooks. Thanks, Lester J. Clark <<