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Miss Jessie Cook

Signed family name
Cook
Signed given name
Miss Jessie
Given address
Walton Park
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Green Island
City/Region
Dunedin
Notes

Younger sister of Ruth B. Cook who signed the same sheet and gave the same address. They were the only surviving daughters of 12 children born to Janet Cook (nee McEwan) and Alexander Cook.

Jessie married a prosperous butcher, Jim McKechnie, and they lived in Milton. They had one son, Craig.

Felicity Murray (great granddaugther of Ruth Brown Cook)

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.