▶Date of birth:  28 September 1786        Place of birth:  Worcester, Worcestershire

▶Father:  Thomas Cookes     Mother: Ann Denham

▶Spouse(s):  Mary Anne Hayes    Date(s) of marriage:  9 December 1818     Place(s) of marriage: Bath

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Charles Cookes lived at least twice in Cheltenham in his later years, but did not hold clerical office in the town. He was born in Worcester in 1786, the seventh and youngest son of the Revd. Thomas Cookes, of Barbourne and Norgrove, Worcester, and his wife Ann (née Denham). Cookes matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1806, BA 1810, MA 1813, and was ordained Deacon in 1814, and  Priest (Bristol) in 1821.

In 1816 he was licensed Curate of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and in 1818 he married Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas Hayes Esq., of Marlborough Buildings, Bath. He was appointed Curate of Overmoigne, Dorset from 1821. He lived in Bath, which he left in 1835, the newspapers recording the sale of his furniture, including a “set of mahogany Trafalgar chairs and dinner tables”. He moved house frequently in his later years, through a series of fashionable addresses.

Although returning to Bath briefly, he moved back to Barbourne in Worcestershire by the mid 1840s. He and one of his daughters moved to 48 Clarence Square, Pittville, in late 1847, and the Cheltenham Annuaire found him there in 1848. At the time of the 1851 census he lived at 13 Lansdown Place East, in Walcot, Bath, but later that year moved to 8 Park Place in Cheltenham, and in the following year to Bays Hill Terrace, in the centre of the town.

Cookes died in Cheltenham, a widower, in 1854, aged sixty-six, and was buried in the New Burial Ground in the High Street of the town.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Barbourne, Worcestershire       Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  4 January 1853      Place of death: Cheltenham

▶Date of burial:  11 January 1853       Place of burial: Cheltenham

▶Notes:        ID: 5871

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden