DESCENDANTS OF LOUISA JANE (ANDREWS) (COOKE) SALMON OF KINGSTON, JAMAICA

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DESCENDANTS OF LOUISA JANE (ANDREWS) (COOKE)
SALMON OF KINGSTON, JAMAICA
Susan Goss Johnston
Peck family lore tells of two brothers, Maurice Bradley Peck and George
Elmer Peck, who married sisters, Amy Salmon and May Salmon. The sisters were
born in Jamaica and were reputed to be “Jamaican princesses.”[1] George and
May’s daughter attended the earlier family reunions, so this story of her mother
and aunt’s origins carried some weight, but no one really beloved the two were
princesses. Investigation showed that the sisters were not Jamaican royalty, but
they did come from a family of privilege. What did come as a surprise was the
discovery that the two were not sisters; they were half-sisters. Their history begins
with the mother they shared.
GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY
Generation One
1. LOUISA JANE1 ANDREWS was born in Isle of Jersey, circa 1857.[2],[3] She
married (1) say 1872, FULLERTON BOYD COOKE, son of Michael and Ann
(______) Cooke,[4] born in Falmouth, Cornwall Co., Jamaica, 22 June 1850.[5],[6]
Louisa married (2) say 1882, ALBERT JONES SALMON.[7] Albert Jones Salmon,
son of Charles Stewart and Margaret (Royes) Salmon, was born in Lucea,
1
Descendants of William Henry Peck, records of family reunions held 1980, 1985, 1990,
1995; family tree held by Danville Town Hall, Danville, Vermont.
2
"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 February 2008), Louisa Jane Salmon, passenger entry
(1914), S. S. Orotava, 29 July 1914, roll 2353, p. 209, line 2; citing Passenger and Crew Lists of
Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957, Records of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Record Group 85, microfilm publication T715, (Washington: National
Archives).
3
"Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008," George Elmer Peck - May Elgetha Salmon
marriage (1916), her mother born Jersey, England; digital image, Ancestry.com
(http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 10 January 2013); citing Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2003,
Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Middlesex.
4
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Jamaica Church of England Parish
Register Transcripts, 1664-1880," database and images, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 11 January 2013), Anabel Irene Cook baptismal entry
(1877), Church of England, Baptisms under Law 6 of 1871, Liber 6, p. 96, no. 94; specifically
citing FHL microfilm 1291722.
5
"Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008," digital image, Ancestry.com, Maurice B. Peck Amy I. Cook marriage (1914).
6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register
Transcripts", Fullerton Boyd Cooke baptismal entry (1851).
7
"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com, Albert J. Salmon,
passenger entry (1908), S. S. Bradford, 7 September 1908, roll 1138, p. 186, line 2.
2
Descendants of Louisa Jane Andrews of Kingston, Jamaica
Middlesex Co., Jamaica, 12 April 1859.[8],[9],[10] He died at the Kingston Public
Hospital in Kingston Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, 6 December 1933, and
was buried in the May Pen cemetery.[11]
Very little is known about Louisa Jane Andrews. She was born about 1857 in
the Isle of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands,[12] and judging from the 1874 birth
of her first child, moved to Jamaica when she was relatively young. There, she
met and married Fullerton Boyd Cooke, a catechist and Spa Town schoolmaster.
The couple had two children.[13]
Nothing more is known of Fullerton Cooke, but it’s likely that he died before
1883. By that date, Louisa had married a Lucea pharmacist, Albert Jones Salmon,
and the couple were the parents of a daughter, Lilian. Albert was a member of a
prominent Jamaica family, the grandson of the Honorable Charles John Royes,
Custos Rotulorum (principal magistrate) of the Parish of St. Ann.[14] Royes was
also a member of the Jamaican House of Assembly and the Legislative Council,
and the owner of the Windsor Great House and estate in St. Ann.[15] Although her
older brother probably retained some memories of his father, it’s likely that Albert
was the only father Amy knew. He appears to have been a good stepfather,
providing for the education and future of all his children, whether natural child or
stepchild.
Louisa’s first child, Harold Ivan Andrews Cooke, left Jamaica in 1900 and
began studying in the Medical College of the University of Alabama in Mobile.
Perhaps inspired by his stepfather, Harold received a degree in pharmacy in 1902,
but he went on with his studies, achieving his degree as Doctor of Medicine in
8
Transcripts," Albert Jones Salmon baptismal entry (1860).
9
"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com, Albert J. Salmon,
passenger entry (1908), S. S. Bradford, 2 September 1908, roll 1138, p. 186, line 2.
10
Deaths – Margaret Taylor, The Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica), 9 August 1915, p. 2, col.
4; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com (http://access.newspaperarchive.com/ : accessed 10 May
2013).
11
“Funeral of Doctor Albert J. Salmon,” The Daily Gleaner, 9 December 1933, p. 19, col. 3; "
... on Wednesday night he passed peacefully away." [6 December].
12
(1914), S. S. Orotava, 29 July 1914, roll 2353, p. 209, line 2
13
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Jamaica Church of England Parish
Register Transcripts, 1664-1880," Harold Ivan Andrews Cooke baptismal entry (1874), Church of
England, Baptisms under Law 6 of 1871, Liber 4, p. 306, and Anabel Irene Cook baptismal entry
(1877).
14
Frederick Gomes Cassidy and R. B. LePage, Dictionary of Jamaican English (London:
Cambridge University Press, 1967).
15
“Hon. Charles John Royes, Sr.,” Bruce Roy, Roy-Royes FamilyLinks,
(http://royroyes.net/index.php : accessed 12 May 2013).
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1904.[16] Harold’s new degree may have inspired his stepfather, because Albert
Jones Salmon took a leave of absence from his pharmacy practice and begun
studying medicine at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. There, he passed all
exams in the 1905-1906 session and added M.D. to his name.[17] Dr. Salmon
served for some years as the District Medical Officer of St. David’s District and
received great praise for his work during the influenza pandemic.[18]
Jamaica, a tropical paradise, lies on a complex fault zone, and on 14 January
1907, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, one of the deadliest in recorded history, struck
the island. Louisa’s daughter, Alberta Louise (Salmon) Hitchins reported the
family’s experiences in a letter picked up by several newspapers thirty years later.
On that fateful day Mrs. Hitchins was sitting in the office of J. Eustace Burke &
Brothers, the firm for which she worked. ... With her in the office was her boss,
her sister – one or two other women who worked there, too. Outside, it was a
clear, tropical, sunshiny day. ...
At 3:30 in the afternoon, a distant, ominous, rumbling sound startled all
Kingston. In the office where Alberta worked, however, nobody paid any
attention to these sounds. The bottling plant on the floor above was always noisy.
Rumblings were nothing new to the employees of Burke & Brothers. The first
intimation that Alberta had that anything was wrong was when she happened to
look up from her work and saw that the wall in front of desk SEEMED TO BE
BENDING OVER! ...
Alberta and her sister made their way out to the street and started to head for
home, down by the waterfront.
The town was a shambles. Buildings were down everywhere. ... Men, women,
children – even animals – were stretched out on the pavement, dead or frightfully
injured. Everywhere, cries for help. ...
It was the most harrowing sight two girls had ever seen. They struggled home to
find their mother and younger sister alive, but frightfully injured. They had just
been dug out from under the wreckage of what had been their home.
Earthquake shocks were still coming at intervals. Alberta and her sister cast
about for medical aid for their mother and the little girl. The hospital was miles
16
University of Alabama, Catalogue of the University of Alabama for the Academic Year
1901-1902 (Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1902), 21, 98, 107, 125; digital images,
Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/ : accessed 8 May 2013).
17
“Current Items,” The Daily Gleaner, 18 April 1906, p. 18, col. 5; digital images,
NewspaperArchive.com (http://access.newspaperarchive.com/ : accessed 10 May 2013).
18
“Address and Purse Presented to Dr. Albert J. Salmon,” The Daily Gleane, 30 May 1919, p.
3, col. 1; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com (http://access.newspaperarchive.com/ : accessed
10 May 2013).
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away – and in ruins. The only safe place left was the sea. They took them aboard
a vessel anchored in the harbor and put them in care of the ship’s doctor. ...[19]
When the earthquake struck, two of Louisa’s children, Harold and Lilian,
were living in Mobile, Alabama. Within the next five years, Amy, Albert and
Alberta would leave Jamaica, too. Although her husband traveled many times to
and from the United States and England, his wife never accompanied him on
these trips, but when rumors of what would become the Great War began, the
Salmon family decided that the remaining members of the younger generation,
daughter May and grandson Vincent, illegitimate son of her son Albert,[20] would
be safer in the United States. Louisa took May and Vincent and sailed from
Jamaica on the S.S. Orotava, leaving on 24 July 1914. The ship arrived in the Port
of New York on July 29th, the day after war was declared.[21]
Louisa is named with her husband in the 1916 marriage notice of her youngest
daughter,[22] but it’s likely that she died sometime between that date and 27 April
1921, the date her husband traveled from Jamaica en route to visit that daughter,
Mrs. George Peck of Bridgeton, New Jersey. Unlike all his earlier voyages, which
list his wife, Mrs. A. J. Salmon, as his contact in Jamaica, on this trip, Albert
named his sister, Mrs. J. H. Berry.[23] Dr. Albert Jones Salmon continued to serve
as physician and in many public offices until his death at the Kingston Public
Hospital on 6 December 1933. No family members are named in the newspaper
article describing his funeral,[24] but a large advertisement appeared in The Daily
Gleaner on 21 August 2002, seventy years later, that names his beneficiaries,
Mary Louise Peck, Albert Salmon, Royes Salmon, Frank Salmon, Jean Salmon,
Jane Burke, and Barbara Hitchins.[25]
Descendants of this family of privilege include several physicians, authors,
musicians, teachers, a prize-winning physicist, and a prize-winning chemist, who
19
Floyd Gibbons, “Through a Tropical Holocaust,” Indiana (Pennsylvania) Weekly
Messenger, 21 October 1937, p. 2, col. 3; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://home.ancestry.com/
: accessed 10 May 2013).
20
Barbara Hodgkinson, “Resident Profile: Vincent Salmon and Elsie Darling – Our Oldest
Couple,” Friends House Newsletter, Summer 2009, p. 1, col. 1; PDF download
(http://www.friendshouse.org/fh-newsletters/FH%20News%20Summer%2009%20FinalLo.pdf :
accessed 20 January 2013).
21
(1914), S. S. Orotava, 29 July 1914, roll 2353, p. 209, line 2.
22
“Wedding Bells,” The Daily Gleaner, 8 February 1916, p. 13, col. 7.
23
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2013), Albert J. Salmon, passenger entry (1921), S.S.
Princess May, 27 April 1921, roll 2961, p. 207, line 10.
24
“Funeral of Doctor Albert J. Salmon,” The Daily Gleaner, 9 December 1933, p. 19, col. 3.
25
Advertisement, Administrator General, The Daily Gleaner, 21 August 2002, p. C10, col. 1.
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also became one of the top sailplane fliers of the 1970s and 80s[26] – but no
Jamaican princesses.
Children of Louisa Jane1 Andrews and Fullerton Boyd Cooke were as follows:
i. HAROLD IVAN ANDREWS2 COOKE was born in Rural Vale, Surry Co., Jamaica, 11
August 1874.[27] He died in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, 30 September 1936, and
was buried in Eden Cemetery, Schiller Park, Cook Co., 3 October 1936.[28] He
married circa 1907, HARRIET MARQUARDT.[29],[30] Harriet, daughter of Earnest
and Minnie (______) Marquardt, was born in Illinois, probably in Cook County,
in August 1877.[31] No children.
ii. ANABEL IRENE “AMY” COOKE was born in Hanover St., Spa Town, Middlesex
Co., Jamaica, 23 June 1877.[32],[33] She died on 27 September 1944 and was
buried in Farmington, New Hampshire.[34] Amy married in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont, 22 April 1914, MAURICE BRADLEY PECK, son of Charles Albertus and
Martha Maria (Prescott) Peck.[35],[36] Maurice was born in Barnet, Vermont, 2
26
“Royes Salmon,” RCSE (Google Groups) posts,
(https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rcse/j572tqQ4Yac : accessed 10 May
2013).
27
Transcripts", Harold Ivan Andrews Cook baptismal entry (1874).
28
"Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947," database, Ancestry.com , Harold I. A.
Cooke entry (1936).
29
Harold I. A. Cooke household; 1920 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population
schedule, Chicago, 8th precinct, ward 7, ED 402, p. 263 (stamped reverse), sheet 3B, dw. 41, fa.
92; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 8 May 2013); citing National
Archives microfilm publication T625, roll 315; married two years.
30
Harold Cooke household; 1930 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule,
Chicago, ward 6, ED 16-216, p. 91 (stamped reverse), sheet 13B, dw. 90, fa. 251; digital image,
Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 8 May 2013); citing National Archives microfilm
publication T626, roll 423; Harold was married first at age 32, yielding a marriage year of ca.
1907; Hertha at age 26, yielding the same year.
31
Ernest Markwurdt household; 1900 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule,
Chicago, ward 26, town of Lake View, ED 815, p. 282 (stamped), sheet 0A, dw. 122, fa. 144;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 10 May 2013); citing National
Archives microfilm publication T623, roll 277.
32
Transcripts", Anabel Irene Cook baptismal entry (1877).
33
Iris (McGill) Gardner, Descendants of Charles A. Peck, family history compilation, 1990, in
possession of; held by Susan Goss Johnston, Laurel, Maryland, 1999, p. 46.
34
Ibid, p. 46.
35
"Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008," digital image, Ancestry.com , Maurice B. Peck Amy I. Cook marriage (1914).
36
"Marriages", St. Johnsbury (Vermont) Caledonian, 29 April 1914, p. 8, col. 7; digital
images, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ : accessed 9 January 2013).
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February 1890.[37] He died in Pittsgrove, Salem Co., New Jersey, 2 May 1942
and was buried in Bridgeton, Cumberland Co., New Jersey.[38] One child.
Children of Louisa Jane1 Andrews and her second husband, Albert Jones Salmon,
were:
i. LILIAN MARGARET JANE2 SALMON was born in Hanover Parish, Jamaica, 25
August 1883.[39] She married in Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama, 4 October 1909,
PETER F. BURKE, son of Peter and Margaret F. (Finnigan) Burke.[40] Peter was
born in Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama, 26 June 1881.[41],[42] He died in Mobile on
5 July 1922.[43] Two children.
ii. CHARLES STEWART SALMON was born in Kingston, Hanover Parish, Jamaica, 12
February 1885.[44] He died at the home of his aunt, Mrs. John H. Berry, 124
Princess St., Kingston, Jamaica, 5 February 1914.[45]
iii. ALBERTA LOUISE SALMON was born in Lucea, Hanover Parish, Jamaica, 5
December 1886.[46],[47],[48] She married before 11 March 1914, WALTER G.
37
Maurice Peck household; 1920 U.S. census, Middlesex County, Connecticut, population
schedule, Cromwell twp., ED 206, p. 5B [stamped 36], dw. 97, fa. 108; digital image,
Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/); citing National Archives microfilm publication T625, roll
187; age 30.
38
Gardner, Descendants of Charles A. Peck, p. 46.
39
Genealogical Society of Utah, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," database,
FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 10 January 2013), Lilian Margaret Jane
Salmon birth entry (1883), specifically citing FHL microfilm 1523698, reference no. 30.
40
"Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950," database and images, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 10 May 2013), Peter Burke Jr. - Lillian M. Salmon
marriage (1909), Mobile County marriage records (white), 42: 273; citing The collection consists
of an index and images of marriage records created by Alabama counties. Records are arranged by
county, volume and date; specifically citing FHL microfilm 1550492; images filmed backwards.
41
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974," database,
FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 12 May 2013), Peter Burke entry (1922),
specifically citing FHL microfilm 1908240; specifically citing cert. no. 13865; entry gives both
date and age 41 years 9 days at death.
42
"Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950", Peter Burke Jr. - Lillian M. Salmon marriage
(1909).
43
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974," FamilySearch,
Peter Burke entry (1922).
44
Genealogical Society of Utah, "Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920," FamilySearch,
Albert Salmon birth entry (1885).
45
Deaths – Charles Stewart Salmon, The Daily Gleaner, 6 February 1914, p. 2, col. 4.
46
Louisa Salmon birth entry (1886).
47
"Naturalization Records -- MA -- U.S. District Court," digital images, Fold3
http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 11 January 2013), Alberta Louise Hitchins, Petition for
Naturalization (1929), no. 112927, citing roll 292; citing Petitions and Records of Naturalizations
of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts of the District of Massachusetts, 1906-1929, NARA
microfilm publication M1368.
48
"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com , Alberta Louise
Hitchins, passenger entry (1914), S. S. Danube, 11 March 1914, roll 2272, p. 31, line 6.
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HITCHINS.[49],[50] Walter was born in Kingston, Jamaica, 17 August 1887.[51] He
died in Manhattan, New York Co., New York, 24 February 1937.[52] Three
children.
iv. ALBERT HENDERSON DAVIS SALMON was born in Lucea, Hanover Parish,
Jamaica, 18 March 1888.[53],[54] He married in Manhattan, New York Co., New
York, 31 December 1915, JEANETT A. “JEAN” OTT.[55] She was born in New
York, circa 1892.[56] Although a divorce decree has not been found, a decree of
separation between Jean and Albert Salmon was granted in Brooklyn, New
York, 2 June 1935.[57] Four children.
v. MAY ELGETHA SALMON was born in Lucea, Hanover Parish, Jamaica, 27
September 1890.[58],[59] She died in Bedford, Westchester Co., New York, 27
October 1976.[60] She married in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 23 January 1916,
GEORGE ELMER PECK, son of Charles Albertus and Martha Maria (Prescott)
Peck.[61],[62],[63] George Elmer Peck was born in Barnet, Vermont, 19 December
49
1930 U.S. census, Worcester Co., Mass., Worcester, ward 8, ED 14-107, p. 6B [stamped
103], dw. 027, fa. 132, Alberta Hitchins, lodger.
50
"Petitions and Records of Naturalizations, U.S. District and Circuit Courts, District of
Mass.," Alberta Louise Hitchins, Petition for Naturalization (1929), no. 112927.
51
"World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images,
Ancestry.comAncestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 10 May
2013), Walter G. Hitchins, serial no. illegible [card cut off], Draft Board 23, Brooklyn, New York,
5 June 1917; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,
NARA microfilm publication M1509, roll not cited.
52
"New York City Death Index," database, Italian Genealogical Group
(http://www.italiangen.org/nycdeath.stm : accessed 10 May 2013), Walter G. Hitchins entry
(1937), specifically citing certificate no. 5256.
53
Charles Salmon birth entry (1888).
54
"Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974," database and
digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 7 May 2013), Albert Henderson
Davis Salmon declaration (1911), Naturalization Service, Record of Declaration of Intention, Vol.
3: 36, no. 436; citing Naturalization Records of District Courts in the Southeast, National
Archives microfilm publication M1547.
55
"New York City Marriages Index," database, Italian Genealogical Group
(http://www.italiangen.org/VRECLIST.stm : accessed 12 May 2013), Albert H. Salmon - Jeanett
A. Ott marriage (1915), citing certificate no. 2365.
56
Albert Salmon household; 1920 U.S. census, Kings County, New York, population
schedule, Brooklyn, New York City, ED 569, p. 139 (stamped), sheet 16A, dw. 55, fa. 329; digital
image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/ : accessed 12 May 2013); citing National Archives
microfilm publication T625, roll 1159; age 28.
57
Jean Salmon from Albert Salmon, decree of separation (1935), Brooklyn (New York) Daily
Eagle, 2 June 1935, p. 8E, col. 8; digital images, Tom Tryniski, Old Fulton New York Postcards
(http://fultonhistory.com/ : accessed 12 May 2013).
58
Muriel Salmon birth entry (1890).
59
60
Ibid., p. 40.
61
"Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008," digital image, Ancestry.com , George Elmer Peck
- May Elgetha Salmon marriage (1916).
62
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1887.[64],[65] He died in Mt. Kisco, Westchester Co., New York, 1 February
1975[66] and was buried in Bedford, Westchester Co., New York.[67] One
daughter.
63
Morris R. Peck household; 1930 U.S. census, Cumberland County, New Jersey, population
schedule, Upper Deerfield twp., ED 6-56, p. 6B [stamped 232], dw. 120, fa. 131; digital image,
Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com/); citing National Archives microfilm publication T626, roll
1326; married age 24, i.e. thirteen years prior to the 1930 federal census.
64
Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Benefit Records, 1937 through
December 1993., CD-ROM 110 (n.p.: Automated Research, Inc., September 1994), Vol. 2 (M-Z),
George Peck entry, zip 10549.
65
Charles A. Peck household, Danville, ED 41, p. 16A, dw. 279, fa. 286, age 22; 1910 U.S.
census, Caledonia County, Vermont, population schedule, NARA microfilm publication T624, roll
1613.
66
Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Benefit Records, Vol. 2 (M-Z),
George Peck entry, zip 10549.
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