Muriel Easton Blaikie Scott 1918-2011
Born Dewsbury to a Textile Designer.
She thought her Scott family had lived in Whitehaugh, Hawick- but have yet to verify this: think it was a different James and John Scott who once owned it. Her cousin, Bill Crosby Scott, had done some research- his notes shown on the Whitehaugh page.
1918. Muriel Easton Blaikie Scott was born to James Blaikie Scott & Lucy Mabel Parr on 10/1/1918 - Dewsbury Mar 1918
1928-1934, She went to Marlborough School, Dewsbury
~1935-1937. She trained as a nurse.
1937-1939. She was 2 years a nurse at the General Infirmary in Leeds- where she would have met her future husband
1939 Register. Muriel E B Hutton-Wilson(Cooke,Scott) was living at 3 Oxford Road, Dewsbury . She remarried John Hutton-Wilson in 1977
James | Scott | 1880 | 04 Oct 1880 | Male | Textile Designer | Married | 2 | 1 |
Lucie M | Scott | 1882 | 14 Feb 1882 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Married | 2 | 2 |
Muriel E B | Hutton-Wilson (Cooke,Scott) | 1918 | 10 Jan 1918 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Single | 2 | 3 |
Cynthia P | Scott | 1930 | 01 Dec 1930 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Single | 2 | 4 |
1939. She became engaged to Dr Tom Cooke.
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1939.Muriel E B Scott,21, of Oxford Road,Dewsbury, married Tom K Cooke , 30, on 21/10/1939 in St Marks Church Dewsbury. He the 5th son of the late Mr F Cooke and Mrs A J Cooke, she the elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Scott - Dewsbury Dec 1939 - announcement in the Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligence on 19/10/1939 FMP Newspapers
"The bride's father is a director of G & J. Stubley Ltd, Woollen Manufacturers, Batley & she is a granddaughter of Alderman . J. A. Parr, twice Mayor of Dewsbury. She was 2 years a nurse at the General Infirmary in Leeds. She wore a travelling dess of blue with wine accessories and orchids. There were no bridesmaids. The best man was Dr Ian McPherson, Leeds, RAMC - FMP Newspapers
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After a honeymoon on the East Coast, they went to live at The Lodge, Tollerton, York, where her husband had taken a practice _ this would be November 1939
They had 3 sons, all registered as born York:
1. Richard Kilner Cooke b.1940, a farmer. He married Yvette Mattes b. 1955, on 18/9/1975/ They divorced in 2004. They had 2 children: Danielle Lucy Cooke 1981 and Dominic Kilner 1983, who in turn married a Swede, Emma Sunnebo 1981 in 2009, taking her surname after marriage!
2. Nigel James Cooke 1942.
3. Andrew Blaikie Cooke 1946, a solicitor in Hull . Married Bea Delmont 1958 from Bordeaux, who had been Au Pair to brother Nige & wife. Andrew & Bea had 2 children: Sophie Isabelle Cooke 1981 who married Neil Corbett in 2013 in Leeds Town Hall & Fiona Aurelie Cooke 1983 who married Greg Roberts in Beverley: 3 children- William Gilbert Roberts 2007, Margaret Ann (Daisy) Roberts 2008 and Arthur Roberts 2012
By sometime in 1940 Tom bought the practice in Kirkbymoorside where he remained until his death
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The Green, Kirkbymoorside- home to Muriel, her husband & 3 sons from 1940 - 1973
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Muriel & Tom at Nigel's wedding in 1971 and a more casual photo of about the same time
1973. Tom Kilner Cooke, of the Green, Kirkbymoorside, died on 28/12/1973 aged 64 . Probate of £50700
1977. Muriel Cooke remarried . New husband John Hutton-Wilson died in 1987
Muriel, aged 93, in 2001
2011. Muriel Hutton-Wilson died