CAPTAIN COOK'S GRANDNEPHEW.
SUCH RELATIONSHIP IMPROBABLE. (Received 27. 9.5 a.m.) Sydney. Sept. 27. Mr James Watson, research secretary of the Roval Australian Historical Society in a letter to the “Morning Herald.” referring to the recent New Zealand cable reporting the death of WUliam Cook, grand-nephew of Captain' Cook, aged 97. says: As to the relationship claimed it is extremely doubtful and quite unknown to any of Captain Cook’s biographers. Captain Cook himself had no descendents of the second generation, nor to his only brother John, born In 1727, and died in 1750, can anv son be traced; nor does it seem at all probable, calculating from these dates, that such relationship existed. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 5
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