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Such a shame if it was actually polio that killed him. We had the Salk vaccine at that time.

GRO CONSULAR DEATH INDICES (1849 to 1965) Transcription
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First name(s) Peter G L
Last name Cooke
Age 27
Gender Male
Birth year 1928
Death year 1955-60
Place MANAGUA
Country Nicaragua
Record source GRO Consular Death Indices (1849 to 1965)
Year range 1955-1960
Volume 54
Page 303
Record set British Nationals Died Overseas 1818-2005
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from Great Britain, UK None

There's this on Ancestry but the original is in Spanish, I can't read it but I think I see the word poliomelitis.


Peter George Lubbeck Cook
in the Nicaragua, Civil Registration, 1809-2011

Name:
Peter George Lubbeck Cook
Gender:
Male
Event Type:
Death
Death Age:
25
Birth Date:
1935
Death Place:
Managua, Nicaragua
Death Date:
4 feb 1960
Father:
Muriel Cook
Film Number:
004361186

;-)

I think it must have been an illness that his mother was informed about. Why else would she arrive just 2 days before he died? Or, perhaps he'd been badly injured?

Thank you again :-) :-D :-) :-D <3

Wondering how he died now as he was only there less than 3 months !!!!!

Muriel O Cooke on the 1939 Register

1939 Register Transcription

Cooke Household (8 People) 4 Enfield Road , Torquay M.B., Devon, England
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First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
Muriel O Cooke 04 Jul 1900 Female Unpaid Dd Widowed 160 1
David L Cooke 07 Sep 1931 Male Scholar At School Single 160 2
Peter J L Cooke 04 Nov 1932 Male Scholar At School Single 160 3
Samuel Ismeiloft 20 Jun 1910 Male Manager (Fit - Skin & Carpet Merchant Married 160 4
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~??? Shemerly 30 Nov 1914 Male Agriculturist Single 160 6
Mina Ismeiloft 11 Aug 1896 Female Household Duties Domestic Married 160 7
Abdulkarin Ismeiloft 07 Aug 1891 Male Carpet & Fud Merchant Married 160 8

Thank you once again, yes Muriel was his mother x

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was muriel his mother

Marriages Mar 1930 (>99%)
Carter Mary B Flamank Newton A. 5b 215
Cooke Alan O E Lubbock Newton A. 5b 215
Flamank Henry K Carter Newton A. 5b 215
Lubbock Muriel O Cooke Newton A. 5b 215

Muriel in transit back to England:


Muriel Cooke
in the Florida, Passenger Lists, 1898-1963
Name:
Muriel Cooke
Nationality:
British
Age:
59
Birth Date:
4 Jul 1900
Birth Place:
Irnoon, England
Arrival Date:
18 Feb 1960
Arrival Place:
Miami, Florida, USA
Airline:
PA
Flight Number:
503

Muriel arrived in America 2 Feb. 1960, in transit to South America. He died 2 days later. Her address was Torquay, The White House, The Terrace.


Muriel Ogden Cooke
in the New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1966
Name:
Muriel Ogden Cooke
Nationality:
British
Arrival Age:
56
Birth Date:
2 Jul 1903
Birth Place:
London
Arrival Date:
2 Feb 1960
Arrival Place:
New York, New York, USA
Airline:
PA
Flight Number:
1
Port:
New York

Yes I have that thank you, I was perhaps hoping to find on passenger list a wife or something.

Cheryl

Do you have this?


Peter George Lubbock Cooke
in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
Name:
Peter George Lubbock Cooke
Death Date:
4 Feb 1960
Death Place:
America
Probate Date:
25 Mar 1960
Registry:
Exeter

Original says of Apartado, 554 Managua, Nicaragua, Central America.
Administration to Muriel Ogden Cooke, widow.
Effects £1375 7s 4d

Thank you :-)

Peter G L Cooke
in the New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1966

Peter G L Cooke
Nationality:
British
Arrival Age:
27
Birth Date:
4 Nov 1932
Birth Place:
Warrington, Eng
Arrival Date:
13 Nov 1959
Arrival Place:
New York, New York, USA
Airline:
PAA
Flight Number:
101
Port:
New York

U.S. address was Skyways Motel, Miami, Florida.

Hi

I have a
Peter George Lubbock COOKE b. 1932 Warrington, Lancs
d. 1960 America

Can anyone look on passenger lists at all for me please, or look to see if there is anything on him anywhere.

Cheryl x