Elizabeth Cockayne’s parentage and christening record were shown in the Will the Right Elizbeth Please Stand Up? post. The next step after identifying Elizabeth was to find more about her siblings and parents.
Elizabeth Cockayne’s parentage and christening record were shown in the Will the Right Elizbeth Please Stand Up? (linked) post. The next step after identifying Elizabeth was to find more about her siblings and parents.
Elizabeth’s siblings
Bishop’s Transcripts for Turnditch All Saints in Derbyshire, a chapelry in the large parish of Duffield St Alkmund, had entries for Elizabeth and her siblings. These images are from those records and are charted below.[1]
Phebe: 1795 Jany 4 Phebe Dr of John & Mary Cockin
Hannah: 1797 Oct 15 Hannah Daughter of John & Mary Cockayne
John: 1800 May 4 John S[on] of John & Mary Cockayne
Mary: 1806 Mar 9 Mary Dau: of John & Mary Cockin
Elizabeth: 1808 April 17 Elizabeth Dau: of John & Mary Cockayne
George: 1811 Mar 10 George Son of John & Mary Cockayne
James: 1814 (also recorded in the parish register for Turnditch starting 1813) April 10 James Son of John/Mary Cockayne, Shottle, Labourer
Andrew: 1816 (also recorded in the parish register) Decr 22 Andrew Son of John/Mary Cockayne, Shottle, Labourer
| Baptism Date | Child’s name | Parents’ names | Location/Father’s occupation |
| 4 Jan 1795 | Phebe | John & Mary Cockin | |
| 15 Oct 1797 | Hannah | John & Mary Cockayne | |
| 4 May 1800 | John | John & Mary Cockayne | |
| 9 Mar 1806 | Mary | John & Mary Cockin | |
| 17 Apr 1808 | Elizabeth | John & Mary Cockayne | |
| 10 Mar 1811 | George | John & Mary Cockayne | |
| 10 Apr 1814 | James | John & Mary Cockayne | Of Shottle, Labourer |
| 22 Dec 1816 | Andrew | John & Mary Cockayne | Of Shottle, Labourer |
Marriage records
Following through with Elizabeth’s seven siblings, searches were done for their marriages in the Derby area and found for most of them. Unsurprisingly the majority were held at Duffield St Alkmund, the mother church of a very large parish that included Shottle (the Turnditch chapel was not licensed to perform marriages at this period).
William Wibberley married Phebe Cockayne on 28 Jan 1816 in Derby, St. Alkmund.[2]
Hannah Cockayne married Samuel Walker 24 Jul 1826 in Duffield.[3]
John Cockayne’s first marriage was to Anne Beardsley in Duffield on 5 Mar 1829.[4]
Widower John Cockayne’s second marriage was to Judith Greatorex on 7 Oct 1833 also in Duffield.[5]
James Cockayne married Mary Dean on 12 Nov 1837 in Duffield.[6]
Andrew Cockayne married Elizabeth Dean 19 Nov 1840 in Duffield.[7]
Mary Cockayne married Thomas Hallsworth on 25 April 1842 in Derby, St. Michael.[8]
| Location | Date | Names & [Age] | Condi-tion/ Rank | Resi-dences | Fathers’ Profes-sions | Witnesses[9] |
| Derby, St. Alkmund | 28 Jan 1816 | William Wibberley & Phebe Cockayne | Of Little Eaton Of Little Eaton[10] | John Cockayne John Marshall or Marshull | ||
| Duffield (by banns) | 24 Jul 1826 | Samuel Walker & Hannah Cockayne | Bachelor Spinster | Duffield Duffield | Mary Cockayne (x) James Sowter | |
| Duffield (by banns) | 5 Mar 1829 | John Cockayne (x) & 1-Anne Beardsley | Bachelor Spinster | Duffield Duffield | Maria Sowter James Sowter | |
| Duffield (by banns) | 7 Oct 1833 | John Cockayne (x) & 2-Judith Greatorex | Widower Spinster | Duffield Duffield | Samuel Greatorex Mary Cockayne | |
| Duffield (by banns) | 12 Nov 1837 | James Cockayne (x) [full] & Mary Dean (x) [full] | Bachelor/ Labourer Spinster | Shottle Shottle | John Cockayne (Labourer) David Dean (Labourer) | Andrew Cockayne Elizabeth Dean (x) |
| Duffield (by banns) | 19 Nov 1840 | Andrew Cockayne [full] & Elizabeth Dean (x) [full] | Bachelor Spinster | John Cockayne (Labourer) David Dean (Labourer) | David Dean (x) Harriet Brown (x) | |
| Derby, St. Michael (by banns) | 25 Apr 1842 | Thomas Hallsworth (x) [full] & Mary Cockayne [full] | Widower/ Laborer Spinster/ Servant | Derby, St. Michael Derby, St. Michael | James Hallsworth (Labourer) John Cockayne (Labourer) | Jane Halls-worth (x) John James |
A marriage for George?
To find a possible wife for sibling George, the 1841-1881 censuses were searched. In 1841, George was in Kirk Ireton with his father, a sister and two nieces.[11]
In 1851 marital status was a census question and George was living by himself in Kirk Ireton, listed as unmarried.[12] He still lived in Kirk Ireton in 1861 where he was also listed as unmarried.[13] The same held true for George’s 1881 census entry in Derby where he was living with his widowed sister, Mary.[14] Multiple attempts at finding George in the 1871 census failed to locate him, but all the other census entries indicate he did not marry.
What about Thomas?
A curious entry turned up in the 1851 census of Kirk Ireton. That census year, an unmarried Thomas Cockayne lived next door to George Cockayne, each of them listed as head of household living alone in Kirk Ireton Village.[15] Both stated as their birthplace as Shottle.[16] Shottle was and still is a very small village, as shown by the 2021 census statistic which lists 270 inhabitants. It was only a cluster of homes in the early 1800s.
The Bishop’s Transcripts of Turnditch (located very close to Shottle) had no Thomas Cockayne baptized there between 1800 and 1815. However, the only Cockayne baptisms in Turnditch parish between 1790 and 1820 all belonged to the family of John Cockayne. Of the Cockaynes in Kirk Ireton in 1851, only Thomas was not a proven descendant of John Cockayne.
In the 1841 census of Kirk Ireton, Thomas Cockayne was living on his own at the Wheatsheaf Inn located on Main Street.
Photo from The Spirit of Kirk Ireton[17]
Though the 1851 census didn’t list the Wheatsheaf specifically as Thomas’s residence, the inn was in operation throughout the 1840s so Thomas may have resided there for a while. Other than Thomas, the fourteen Cockaynes in Kirk Ireton were either John himself or a proven relation.
Thomas was still unmarried in the 1861 census for Kirk Ireton.[18] He was enumerated as age 56 and was living on his own. He again stated his birthplace was Shottle. The other Cockayne residents of Kirk Ireton included George and the family of James, the brother of George. The Cockaynes who listed their birthplace as Shottle were George, James, and Thomas.
Thomas’s last census was in 1871. He was unmarried and still living in Kirk Ireton on his own at age 67. Thomas again gave his birthplace as Shottle. In 1871, Thomas and James were the only Cockayne heads of household in Kirk Ireton.
Thomas died in 1778 in Kirk Ireton at the age of 77 according to his death certificate.[19] The informant was listed as his brother, James, who attended his death. There is only one James in the 1871 and 1881 censuses of Kirk Ireton. The next closest James Cockayne was twenty miles away and was born in Nottinghamshire.
For Thomas to fit into the family of John and Mary Cockayne as their son, there needed to be a gap in the family that could match up with a possible birth year for Thomas, which there was. The census ages for Thomas gave him a birth between 1801 and 1811, which was not particularly helpful, but there is a significant gap in the births for John and Mary’s family between May 1800, when son John was born, and March 1806, when daughter Mary was born. All other birth gaps in that family are two to three years. It is reasonable to assume that Thomas was a member of John Cockayne’s family because he can fit into a wide birth gap, he consistently listed Shottle as his birthplace, he had a brother named James, and he chose to live close to known siblings of Elizabeth (Cockayne) Duke.
A search of newspapers in Derbyshire and general searches on family history websites turned up no additional evidence on Thomas. Since the BTs are the only source for the births, and those are copies of the missing pre-1813 original parish register, the baptism of Thomas was most likely missed by the copyist.
Death records
Several death and/or burial records for Elizabeth’s siblings. In addition to Thomas, who was noted previously, there is also:
Phebe (Cockayne) Webberley died 5 April 1846 at Longford.[20]
Hannah (Cockayne) Walker died 31 December 1861 in Duffield.[21]
John Cockayne died 7 June 1888 in Weston Underwood.[22]
Mary (Cockayne) Hallsworth died 17 May 1882 in Derby.[23]
George Cockayne died 29 March 1885 in Kirk Ireton.[24]
James Cockayne died 29 April 1883 in Kirk Ireton.[25]
Andrew Cockayne died 30 April 1874 in Shottle.[26]
In addition to John and Mary (Smith) Cockayne’s children, their own death records were found:
John Cockayne died 18 October 1845 in Kirk Ireton.[27]
Mary died before certificates were issued, but the parish register showed she was buried 13 December 1835.[28]
Chart of death records:
| Name at death | Date of death | Place of death | Age | Rank/Profession | Cause of death | Informant/ relation-ship |
| Mary Cockayne | 13 Dec 1835 (burial) | Kirk Ireton (burial) | 63 | |||
| John Cockayne (Sr.) | 18 Oct 1845 | Kirk Ireton | 86 | Laborer | Decay of Nature | Andrew Cockayne (son)[29] |
| John Cockayne (Jr.) | 7 Jun 1888 | Weston Under-wood | 88 | Agri-cultural labourer | Chronic bronchitis, age, natural infirmity | Hamlet Cresswell (son-in-law x)[30] |
| Thomas Cockayne | 29 Dec 1878 | Kirk Ireton | 77 | Laborer | Mitral disease of the heart Hemorr-hage | James Cockayne, brother (x) |
| George Cockayne | 29 Mar 1885 | Kirk Ireton | 76 | General Labourer | Heart disease Chronic bronchitis | Hannah Whittaker (likely neighbor x) |
| James Cockayne | 29 Apr 1883 | Kirk Ireton | 69 | Farm Labourer | Chronic bronchitis 4 months | James Cockayne, son |
| Andrew Cockayne | 30 Apr 1874 | Shottle | 57 | Farm Labourer | Organic disease of lungs and liver, Ascites of Hydro-thorax | Elizabeth Cockayne (wife x) |
| Phebe Wibberley | 5 April 1846 | Longford | 51 | Wife of William Wibberley, Wheel-wright | Consump-tion | John Wibberley (possible son x) |
| Mary Hallsworth | 17 May 1883 | Ashbourne Rd. in Derby | 76 | Widow of Thomas Hallsworth a laborer | Senile, gangrene of foot, Exhaustion | Louisa Hallsworth, daughter (x) |
Future posts
Future posts will cover more on John Cockayne and Mary Smith, the parents of Elizabeth (Cockayne) Duke and her siblings.
[1] Turnditch All Saints Bishop’s Transcripts (Derbyshire, England) Register, Baptisms 1783-1906, unpaginated, Lichfield Record Office, Lichfield, UK. The original Parish Register for Turnditch chapel before 1813 has been lost.
[2] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), Phebe Cockayne marriage.
[3] “ England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), Hannah Cockayne marriage. NOTE: Witness James appeared on other marriages on the same page and may have been at or employed by the church.
[4] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 12 November 2019), John Cockayne marriage.
[5] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), John Cockayne marriage.
[6] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), James Cockayne marriage.
[7] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), Andrew Cockayne marriage.
[8] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 October 2019), Mary Cockayne marriage.
[9] (x) means a witness signed with an x.
[10] Little Eaton was within the parish of St. Alkmund which was also stated on the certificate.
[11] “1841 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 20 September 2019), entry for John & George Cockayne (age 25), Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; citing HO 107/198/1, no folio, p. 8.
[12] “1851 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 20 September 2019), entry for George Cockayne (age 40), Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; citing RG 107/2164 folio 198/7, Kirk Ireton Village, line 13.
[13] “1861 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org :accessed 20 September 2019), entry for George Cockayne (age 50), Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; citing RG 9/2524, folio 94, household 53, line 20.
[14] “1881 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 20 September 2019), entry for George Cockayne (age 70), St. Werburgh, Derby, Derbyshire; citing RG 11/3398 folio 74, Friar’s Gate Ward, Ecclesiastical District of St. Barnabas, household 63, No. 2 Ashbourne Court, line 15.
[15] Both were listed as heads of household with only themselves as residents.
[16] “1851 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch, entry for George Cockayne (age 40), Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; citing RG 107/2164 folio 198/7, Kirk Ireton Village, line 13.
[17] Gill Ashurst, Jan Walding, & Dave Williams, The Spirit of Kirk Ireton, (Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, Landmark Publishing, LTD, 2004),88.
[18] “1861 Census for England and Wales,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org :accessed 4 December 2024), entry for Thomas Cockayne (age 56), Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; citing RG 9/2524, folio 99, household 112 line 16.
[19] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for Thomas Cockayne, died 29 December 1878, registered 30 December 1878, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Ashbourne 7b/376, Bassington Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[20] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for Phebe Wibberley, died 5 April 1846, registered 7 April 1846, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Ashbourne 19/289, Bassington Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[21] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for Hannah Walker, died 31 December 1861, registered 1 January 1862, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Shardlow, 7b/237, Shardlow Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[22] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for John Cockayne, died 7 June 1888, registered 13 June 1888, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Belper 7b/305, Duffield Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[23] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for Mary Hallsworth, died 17 May 1882, registered 17 May 1882, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Derby 7b/316, Derby Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[24] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for George Cockayne, died 29 March 1885, registered 30 March 1885, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Ashbourne 7b/401, Bassington Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[25] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for James Cockayne, died 29 April 1883, registered 30 April 1883, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Ashbourne 7b/375, Bassington Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[26] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for Andrew Cockayne, died 30 April 1874, registered 2 May 1874, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Belper 7b/306, Wirksworth Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[27] England, General Register Office, PDF copy of an entry of death, for John Cockayne, died 18 October 1845, registered 19 October 1845, copy of an entry in the certified copy of the register of deaths in the registration district of Ashbourne 19/241, Brassington Sub-District, Derbyshire.
[28] “England, Derbyshire, Church Registers, 1538-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 17 October 2019), Mary Cockayne burial.
[29] Relationships in parentheses were deduced, those without parentheses were stated on the certificates
[30] (x) indicates signed with mark
