Captain Cook’s Descendants
Sir, —A statement is going the rounds of the New Zealand Press that a descendant of Captain James Cook, the famous navigator, is living at New Plymouth. Descent is claimed through Cook’s daughter, Margaret. In his work on James Cook, Walter Besant, on the authority of Canon Bennett, of Maddington Vicarage, Devizes, states that the immortal voyager had only one daughter—Elizabeth. She was born in 1766, and died in 1771, and was, therefore, only five years old at her death. Canon Bennett was a personal friend of Mrs. Cook, and he gave Besant many interesting particulars of her and her family which find a place in Besant’s book. — I am, etc., I. M. LEVY. Wellington, September 2.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 11
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