Thomas Cooke - Ross on Wye 1840 Pigot's Commercial Directory (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, October 08, 2012, 14:33 (4424 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Slowhands, your post re the 1841 Census correlates nicely with the 1840 Pigot's Commercial Directory. I see that Directory shows several Cookes in business; whether this suggests that they are a particularly-gifted "upwardly mobile" family, or just that it is quite a common name, I don't know.
I see the Directory also lists a "Thomas Cooke, High Street Ross, Chemist & Druggist". Do you think this is just a coincidence or are they perhaps related ?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nmfa/Directories/pigot_directory_of_h...

Probably complete coincidence, but in the 1970s we had an excellent senior Physics teacher at RFDGS, Gerald Cooke, who had taught at EDGS before that (also a senior member of Lydney Hockey Club in the late 50s), but whether related ...... ?.