The Cook (Kruk) Family is from Wolin, Russia, aka Volhynia, Ukraine (region which contains Rozhysche, Kovel (Filler, Robinson, Yecht families), Lokacze (Nelson Family), and Kiselin (Chandler family). Abraham Cook came from the town of Rozhysche
Translation of Yizkor Book for Rozhysche
The Rozhishch Society in the US
Documenting Maine Jewry Cook page
Nelson Photos (Includes some Cook Photos)
Cook Family Tree (starting from Michael & Celia Cook)
updated 9/18/2011 + Kruk name + Dan Weber family details+ Sheldon Cook
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12/16/1899 to 2/6/1900 Hamburg to London on Vesta; Liverpool to Portland on SS Parisian Vesta Manifest:
Abram Kruk, Birth: 1868, married Occupation: shoemaker; Residence: Rositschi
SS Parisian: Abraham Kruch/Kruk, Birth: 1869, Passage paid by and going to join: Uncle
BTS: Most like it was David Robinson (Toby’s (half or 3/4?) brother. He arrived in US in 1892 or 1893.
April 20, 1910: Sanford, Maine: Census Abraham Cook and family' boarder Joe Chase
January 8 & 9, 1920 Census 78 Dyer Street, Portland, Maine in home of Aunt Edith (Etta) Robinson
Feb 26, 2019: via email: Judith Cook (Tucker):
“My father told us that he lived in Portland for the year after his mother died because his father could not leave the family
and Portland was where there was a synagogue with a minyan, so he was sent, at the age of 13, to the aunt to say Kadish every day for a year, on his way to school.”
Letter (undated) from Irving Robinson to Sue Cook
This is a line from a Hebrew list of family births in a
Bob Cook’s Shavuot Prayer Book, published in Vilnius. Lithuania, 1844, and now held by Judith Cook Tucker.
Alexander Shmuel born 3 Iyar 5606 Wednesday 29 April 1846 in Sokol, Ukraine, 10 miles from Rozhysche. [BTS: Shmuel, father of Abram Zvi Hersch]
I need to check whether there is a further date offset for Julian calendar in use in Russian Empire until 3/1/1918.
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Blank Census Forms 1910 1920 1930 with clear headers
Blank 1940 Census Form (legal-sized, 2pp)