Thornaby, a settlement from the arrival of the Danes in 800 AD is the birthplace of Cook's mother Grace Pace. On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.

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Margaret was the seventh child born to Grace Cook (nee Pace) and James Cook, she was born at Airyholme Farm, Great Ayton, Nth Yorkshire where her Father was employed as a Bailiff, in the month of July, 1742.

Nov 7, 2024 · James Cook RN was born in Yorkshire, England. Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer and naval officer. He made three historic voyages to the Pacific, to become the first recorded European to reach the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.

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Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

When Captain James Cook was born on 7 November 1728, in Marton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Cook, was 34 and his mother, Grace Pace, was 26. He married Elizabeth Batts on 21 December 1762, in St Margaret's Church, Barking, Essex, England.

Jun 19, 2018 · Grace Pace, Cook’s mother, was born in Thornaby and his father, James Cook, came down to England from Scotland following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. James and Grace had 8 children, four of which died in childhood.