Moving the Overview notes presently on John Wade Cook, III John Cook to Capt Cook's brother John Cook
John was a Scottish farm worker from Edham Roxburgshire. Smailholm is a small village in the historic county of Roxburghshire in south-east Scotland. Young Cook would have helped with the work and even received some basic schooling. Acklam in Cleveland, the neighbouring settlement to Marton, gives a glimpse eastwards down the River Tees valley towards the mouth of the River between Hartlepool and Coatham/Redcar and out into the North Sea. They attended St. Cuthbert parrish and John was a farm manager at Ayton, Marton-in- Cleveland, Yorkshire before moving to the Airey holme farm at Great Ayton. '''By 1736, when John was eight years old,''' his father had got the job of hind or foreman at Aireyholme Farm near Great Ayton, about six miles away. The farm stood on the lower slopes of Roseberry Topping and was owned by Mr. Thomas Scottowe, Lord of the Manor of Great Ayton.The school that John and James, who was two years older, attended had been set up by a local yeoman, Michael Postgate, in 1704. It is possible that Thomas Scottowe, James’s father’s employer, financially supported the boy’s schooling there. Along with the other twenty to thirty other children, would have been taught writing and arithmetic and received religious instruction, probably until the age of twelve. '''John's brother Capt. James Cook''' left Great Ayton for Staithes in early 1745 and in 1755 his father retired from the farm and moved with his family.
Cooks' Cottage home, is now in a museum in Melbourne, Australia, having been moved from England and reassembled, brick by brick, in 1934, to commemorate Capt James Cook , John's famous second son of 8 children. In 1785 the original school building was rebuilt. It now houses the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum.
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