See also
- John ABBOTT's parents: Thomas Cook ABBOT (1831-1877) and Ellen TALBOT (1832?-aft1911)
- John ABBOTT's siblings: Susannah COOK-ABBOTT (1853-1855), William Cook ABBOTT (1854-bef1911), Arthur COOK-ABBOTT (1858?-1918), Eleanor Cook ABBOTT (1859- ), Walter Thomas Cook ABBOTT (1860-1929), Frederick Cook ABBOTT (1869- ), Susannah Kate Cook ABBOTT (1871- ), Clara Cook ABBOTT (1872-1884) and Sarah COOK-ABBOTT (1875-1958)
John Cook ABBOTT (1856-1913)
Photo of John Cook Abbott
| RiD No.: | 280 |
Personal Details
| Birth | 24 January 1856 | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| 7, St John Street, St Clements, Ipswich John's birth is registered in Ipswich March quarter 1856. |
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| Address | 7 March 1861 (age 5) | 69 Bloomfield Street, Ipswich |
| 69, Bloomfield Street, Ipswich, Suffolk | ||
| Census | 1871 (age 14-15) | |
| John appears in 1871 census in St Margaret, Ipswich as 15 year old scholar with parents and siblings William, Arthur, Ellen, Thomas and Frederick. | ||
| Census | 1911 (age 54-55) | |
| 265, Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk The 1911 census shown John living as a boarder with his his married sister Susanna and her husband Thomas BUXTON. John's occupation shown as CLERK SMITH IRON FOUNDRY. |
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| Death | Q4 1913 (age 57) | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| The death of a John C Abbott is registered in Ipswich in December quarter 1913. | ||
Marriage and Family Details
| Spouse | Isabella Louisa HARPER (1855-1897) | |
| Children | Isabella ABBOTT (1878- ) | |
| Minnie Matilda ABBOTT (1880-1955) | ||
| Elizabeth ABBOTT (1883- ) | ||
| Rose Mable ABBOTT (1884-1958) | ||
| Edith Alice ABBOTT (1887- ) | ||
| John ABBOTT (1889- ) | ||
| Ellen Ethel ABBOTT (1891- ) | ||
| Herbert William ABBOTT (1893- ) | ||
| Marriage | 17 June 1877 (age 21) | Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey |
| The marriage of John Cook-Abbott and Isabella Louise Harper was registered in St Olave in June quarter 1877. | ||
| Census (family) | 1881 (age 24-25) | St Mary Stoke, Ipswich |
| The 1881 census shows the following family unit:- John C Abbott / Head / Age35 / b Ipswich Isabella L Abbott / Wife / Age 36 / b Bermondsey, London Isabella L Abbott / Daughter / Age 3 / b Notting Hill Gate, London Albina M Abbott / Daughter / Age 0 / b Ipswich |
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| Census (family) | 1891 (age 34-35) | |
| Adderley Road, Saltley, Aston, Warwickshire The 1891 census shows John and Isabella in Warwickshire as follows:- Transcription of 1891 census return:- John Abbott / Head / Male / age 35 / b.Suffolk, England Isabella L Abbott / Wife / Female / age 36 / b.London, England Isabella Abbott / Daughter / Female / age 13 / b. London, England Minnie Abbott / Daughter / Female / age 10 / b. England Elizabeth Abbott / Daughter / Female / age 8 / b. England Rose Abbott / Daughter / Female / age 6 / .b. England Edith Abbott / Daughter / Female / age 4 / b. England John Abbott / Son / Male / age 2 / b. Leicestershire, England |
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Other Details
The following information, and the photograph of John (above), has been kindly supplied by Carol Wooliams, a great-grand daughter of John Cook Abbott. Many thanks.
"The third of their (Thomas and Ellen's) ten children was John Cook Abbott, born on 24 January 1856 at 7 John Street, Ipswich. (On his birth certificate, his father’s surname is spelt with only one t.) Interestingly, on the 1871 census, John (aged 15) and his brothers William (aged 16) and Arthur (aged 13) are recorded as being lodgers in their parents’ house.
On June 17 1877, John Cook Abbott (who gave his occupation as a blacksmith) married Isabella Louisa Harper in Bermondsey, he was 21 and she was 22 years old. Isabella Louisa’s mother’s maiden name was Laccohee, a Walloon name. Queen Elizabeth I invited persecuted families of highly skilled weavers in Wallonia, now south Belgium, to emigrate to Norwich to revitalize the town, making ‘Norwich stuff’. The La Cohie family responded and the rest is part of my family history.
They had eight children:
Isabella Louisa Abbott born 1878 in Notting Hill
Minnie Matilda Abbott born 1880 in Ipswich
Elizabeth Mabel Abbott born 1883 in Ipswich
Rose Mabel Abbott born 1885 in Ipswich
Edith Alice Abbott born 1887 in Ipswich
John Thomas Abbott born 1889 in Ashby de la Zouch
Ellen Ethel Abbott born 1891 in Birmingham
Herbert William Abbott born 1893 in Birmingham
John Cook Abbott was present when his wife Isabella Louisa died on 27 January 1897 in Birmingham. The cause of death was Phthisis pulmonalis (consumption, now known as tuberculosis). She was 42 year old when she died. The children she left were 18, 16, 13, 12, 10, 8, 5 and 3 respectively.
At some point after his wife died John Cook Abbott (a blacksmith journeyman) left to seek work, heading in the direction of London. It is understood that, for whatever reason, his children did not hear from him again. They assumed that he had died.
It is not known where John Cook Abbott was at the time of the 1901 census, but on the 1911 census he is living at 265 Foxhall Road, Ipswich with his younger sister, Susannah, now married to a Thomas Buxton. He is described as being a ‘Clerk Smith Iron Foundry’.
This was still his address when he died 2 years later, on 7 November 1913 at the age of 57 at the Infirmary of the Union Workhouse in Ipswich. His younger sister Susannah was present when he died. The cause of death was carcinoma of the bladder (cancer) and asthenia (wasting away). Bladder tumours are connected to occupational exposure in the workplace to carcinogens; occupations at risk include blacksmiths.
The youngest three children were certainly in orphanages in Birmingham by November 1899, and are categorised as ‘deserted’. They were amongst the first to enter the Aston Union Cottage Homes, the earliest authority attempt to get deserted children off the streets and out of the workhouse. I suspect they and the other children were helped by charitable philanthropic bodies before that. The siblings were all separated, but stayed in contact and looked after each other. They all survived: one went to India, one went to Canada, one was adopted, one was a servant in the same home, one formed a close lifelong friendship with another woman."