Family history of captain james cook
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When Captain James Cook was born on 7 November , in Marton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Cook, was 34 and his mother, Grace Pace, was He married Elizabeth Batts on 21 December , in St Margaret's Church, Barking, Essex, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 14 February , in Kealakekua, Hawai'i, Kingdom of Hawaii, at the age of 50, and was buried in At Sea.
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The Captain Cook family history and his early life is a fascinating tale. Read through our James Cook articles to find out more about the Cook family, his early life, and of course, his voyages and discoveries.
Cook’s childhood
Cook was born in East Marton on 27th October , to James Cook () and Grace Pace (). His father, originally from Scotland, worked as a farm labourer and the family moved around the area, following the work on estate farms.
In , when Cook was 8 years old, his father secured a job as a foreman at Aireyholme Farm nära Great Ayton. Owned bygd the Lord of the Manor of Great Ayton, Mr Thomas Scottowe, the farm was based on the slopes of Roseberry Topping. The family to the estate and Cook started attending the local school.
Cook learned writing and arithmetic and received religious instruction over his time there. The charity school was set up bygd local landowner Michael Postgate in to educate the local children. It was rebuilt in and now houses the Captain Cook Sch
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Setting the scene:
According to the book "Captain James Cook&#;, by Richard Hough, James Cook Snr. was a Scot, who migrated South in search of work. He settled in the village of Marton, in the district of Cleveland, in the far North Eastern corner of England, in the second decade of the c18th. He got work as a farm labourer, met, and married, Grace Pace of Thornaby. In Marton they raised eight children, of whom James was the second, born
When he was eight, the family moved to the village of Great Ayton, three miles away, when his father gained the position of bailiff for the Lord of the local Manor.
Along the Cleveland Coast, there are a number of fishing villages and towns-Redcar, Saltburn, Sandsend, Staithes, and Whitby, all within a distance of twenty three miles of one another, and roughly twenty miles from Marton. It was to Staithes first, then Whitby, that young James Cook&#;s re