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Samuel Baigent was born in 1840.^1,2

Samuel Baigent had person sources.³ He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 on 18 December 1841.¹

Unknown was born in 1804. She and Francis Blincoe were married.

Unknown immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

Ann Blincoe was born in 1826.

Ann Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was a servant in 1842.

Francis Blincoe was born in 1831.

Francis Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was in 1842.

Francis Blincoe was born in 1797. He and Unknown were married.

Francis Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was a farmer & bricklayer in 1842.

James Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was in 1842.

John Blincoe was born in 1835.

John Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was in 1842.

Sarah Blincoe was born in 1829.

Sarah Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

William Blincoe was born in 1837.

William Blincoe immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was in 1842.

Anna Matilda Hector was born on 19 June 1832 in Russell, BOI, NZ.¹

Anna Matilda Hector was baptized on 27 October 1844 in Russell, BOI, NZ.¹

Caroline Georgina Hector was born on 27 January 1841 in Russell, BOI, NZ.¹

Caroline Georgina Hector was baptized on 27 October 1844 in Russell, BOI, NZ.¹

Elizabeth Clarke was born in 1830.

Elizabeth Clarke had person sources.¹ She immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 in 1842. She was in 1842.

Emily Clarke was born in 1839.

Emily Clarke immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

Isabella Clarke was born in 1837.

Isabella Clarke immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

Lucy Clarke was born in 1835.

Lucy Clarke immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

Edmond Cook was born in 1838.

Edmond Cook immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He had person sources.¹ He was in 1842.

Eleanor Cook was born in 1833.

Eleanor Cook immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.¹ She was in 1842.

Elisabeth Cording was born in 1814 in LON, ENG.¹ She and John (Johannes) (KOCH) Cook were married in 1831 in London, ENG. She died in December 1882, at age ~68, in Wellington, NZ.¹

Elisabeth Cording immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. She had person sources.² She was in 1842.

Elizabeth Cook was born on 1 January 1839 in Chelsea, LON, ENG.¹ She died on 5 September 1842, at age 3, in Wellington, NZ, 2 1/2 yrs dropsy.²

Elizabeth Cook immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. From my own searches and family information, I had originally: Elizabeth COOK, dau of John / Johannes Koch and Elizabeth nee CORDING - b Chelsea?, London, 1839?c 1842/1843, Wellington.
An Australian relation sent me this: Elizabeth (1839-1842); and then two other family researchers sent me their gedcoms with this information:
b 1 Jan 1839 in Chelsea, London, England
d 5 Sep 1842 in Wellington, New Zealand
which I have not verified personally.
The birth did not show up in the COOK /CORDING London baptismal records that Brent Cording verified for the pre-emigration period but I had at one stage found a likely date of 1839 via LDS searches.
The death does not show up in the NZ BDM online or in the Cook BDM spreadsheets prepared by another researcher many years ago. But I had already received information via my own family that there was a likely death 1842/1843, so the late 1842 death claimed seems reasonable.
There's no notice in PapersPast so far as I know, but that is not unreaonable either.
That's as far as I got, I'm afraid. I never looked hard for actual certificates here.
cheers Christine CHR
I forgot to mention she's also listed as part of John's family on the passenger list for the Clifford as aged 1. I assume as at Dec 1841. She had person sources.³

John Herman Cook was born in 1836.

John Herman Cook immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. He was a tailor in Wellington with father.¹ He had person sources.² He was in 1842.

John (Johannes) (KOCH) Cook was born in February 1807 in Diessel, Hesse Cassel, Germany.¹ He and Elisabeth Cording were married in 1831 in London, ENG. He died on 29 May 1892, at age 85, in Wellington, NZ.¹

John COOK:
John Cook was born Johan Koch in February 1807at Deissel, Hesse Cassel (in modern-day Germany). Johan was from a military village in the forest that supplied soldiers to the 'Hessian' troops (thus, members of his family fought in the 'American war'; and his sisters all married and allegedly emigrated to America). Johan was too weakly to be a soldier and became a tailor. He followed an older brother to London (the brother sub- sequently returned to Deissel). In London in 1831Johan married Elizabeth Cording (London, 1814-December 1882, Wellington). [Her parents appear to have been the Edmund Cordings, also migrated aboard the Clifford, but she had been adopted by her mother's sister, Jane Hemmings. Her mother's maiden name was Mitford, from Newcastle on Tyne.] Johan became known in London as John Cook, owing to a mistake in his marriage banns, which had been posted by an English friend on his behalf. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1841 aboard the Clifford, having been persuaded to this by his his 'parents-in-law' the Edmund Cordings, who already had a son and a daughter in the colony. The Cooks embarked with three children and another, Robert Clifford, was born off Van Diemen's Land. According to a family letter, of which I have a copy:
"The Clifford got on the shoal off Ward Island (Wellington Harbour) and from thence went to Nelson, her final port. The Cook family left the Clifford in Wellington in boats on the 5th May 1842 and landed on the beach under Akawie Pa (Cotterville Tce). Their first home was part of a large Maori built hut in which the Buckridges [another Cording daughter and her family] and a family named Bignals were residing. In three months they all left the pa in some groundless fear of the Maoris, the Cooks going into part of a mud hut built on a parcel of land reached by a fenced of (sic) foot-way blocked by foot styles off the lane now called Frasers (Aitken Street). This lane should be called Hornibrooks. There great trouble met the family during the twelve months of their residence. The settlement was practically burnt down and the people deprived of their belongings in consequence."
Some of John's sons followed him into business as tailors and he later ran J Cook and Son with his son John Herman (John Cook Jr) for many years. Others of the family became farmers, farming at Makara. John Cook died in Wellington, NZ, on 29 May 1892. If you have a connection with this family or would like to know more please contact Christine O'Brien. John (Johannes) (KOCH) Cook had person sources.² He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 on 18 December 1841.³ He was a tailor in 1842.³

Ann Mitford was born in 1795 age 50 in 1842 KHA.¹ She and Edmund Herne Cording were married. She died on 23 June 1856, at age ~61, in Thorndon, Wellington, NZ.¹

Ann Mitford immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. 1846 raped by Henry HODGES who was found guilty and transported to Australia. KHA. She had person sources.² She was in 1842.

Edmund Herne Cording was born about 1789 died aged 53.^1,2 He and Ann Mitford were married. He died in 1842 in Wellington, NZ, 53 yrs inflamation.¹

Edmund Herne Cording immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifford arriving NZ 11/5/1842 18/12/1841. CORDING Family:
I have no official papers for them but this information appears in a family letter written by John Cook Jr: The Cordings were from Wales [amended by hand on the copy to 'Wells']. In 1841 they persuaded their 'daughter' Elizabeth and her husband John Cook / Johan Koch to migrate with them and their two youngest daughters Sarah and Susan to New Zealand....
"...whither Edmund their son and Ann Buckridge their daughter had preceded them - two daughter (sic) Jane and Mary staying behind in prospect of marriage. Jane married a Mr Blaker and proceeded to New Zealand. Mary followed long after. Sarah married Thomas Hoggard and Susan married his brother John. The Cooks and the Cordings left England in the barque Clifford in December (1841) Christmas seeing them in the Bay of Biscay. . . their [Cooks and, I believe Cordings] first home was part of a large Maori-built hut in which the Buckridges [married daughter of the Cording family] and a family named Bignals were residing. In three months they all left the pa in some groundless fear of the Maoris . . . And later: The [Cook] family moved on to Lambton Quay, opposite the Central Club, at the corner of Gray Street, living in part of a house with the Cordings who had built it. Cordings had also built a double house in front which was let as a shoe store. There the families had better times which gave more hope to the parents and less sorrow to the children."
If you have a connection with this family or would like to know more please contact Christine O'Brien. He had person sources.³ He was a carpenter in 1842.