Home	John & ? Cook
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	John Cook					? ?
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Children:	Thomas Cook

The 1851 census shows that Thomas Cook was born in about 1796 in Bath, Somerset. Thomas's wife, Sarah, was a gun polisher, and their son James went on to be a gun maker. Although there is no documentary proof, Thomas's father was probably John Cook, a gun maker in Bath, Somerset:

Pigot's trade directory for Bath in 1844 includes an entry for John Cook, a gun maker.

The November 2006 catalogue from Thomas Delmar, gun dealer, includes an entry describing John Cook as a gun-maker in Bath:

A percussion sporting gun by Cook, Bath, circa 1800 converted from flintlock, with two-stage Spanish barrel stamped with the gold-lined marks of Juan Esteban Bustindui of Eibar (Neue Støckel 124 and 130) within a series of decorative marks at the breech, chiselled and gilt with a band of acanthus at the girdle (light pitting fore-sight missing), stepped bevelled lock signed on a scroll, figured walnut half-stock (fore-end cracked), tutenag mounts including pierced stepped side-plate, trigger-guard with acorn finial, butt-plate pierced en suite with the side-plate, vacant silver escutcheon, and horn fore-end cap 82cm; 32 1/8in barrel

John Cook is recorded at Kingsmead Street, Bath, circa 1797-1839. £600-800