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Been in it in my 73-74 Boro shirt, it's quite a popular attraction over there.The house he grew up in in great Ayton is now in a park in Melbourne
Been in it in my 73-74 Boro shirt, it's quite a popular attraction over there.The house he grew up in in great Ayton is now in a park in Melbourne
In an unmarked grave.Cook’s father is buried in St Germain’s churchyard in Marske.
Yes there were also noted scientists on the second voyage, although not Banks he went off in a huff after Cook vetoed all the alterations he wanted to make to the ship which would have made it quite unseaworthy.Anyone care to provide information on Cook’s voyages to Hawaii and how they tied into science? Was there any part of his crew part of a science team other than Cook and Joseph Banks? Were the trips to Hawaii purely for botanical reasons? Hawaii (big island) has the largest view of the sky and therefore I was wondering if this was another reason for Cook’s visits?
It isn’t unmarked. It is a grey headstone with a white cross on top of it. It is in the centre of the graveyard.In an unmarked grave.
Look for the tombstone in old Ayton church that records the deaths of many of the Cook family. It is possible it was even carved by James senior.
It was an extremely tough time for the convicts and early settlers.More Cook stuff
In the Inspector Morse series - the author Colin Dexter gave Morse the first name of Endeavour in tribute to James Cook.
Ref Early Australia
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is a very grim but interesting read about the transportation and imprisonment of UK citizens in Australia. I read it about 40 years ago, some interesting photos too. Up to 25% died on the very long voyages there, chained in the bilch of the ships for a lot of the journey. Australia was difficult when the first settlers got there, because a lot of crops grown in Europe at that time would not grow in Australia. Some of the escaped prisoners ending up each other because they did not know how the live off the land. Punishments meeted out to prisoners tended to be harsher than in the UK.
It isn’t unmarked. It is a grey headstone with a white cross on top of it. It is in the centre of the graveyard.
In terms of books, I’m currently reading Endeavour: the ship and attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore . It traces the life of Bark Endeavour and offers some excellent insights.
Years ago, I read a book about Cook’s voyages and a man who then followed the routes in modern times. It was a brilliant read but I have totally forgotten the author and title. I loaned it to a now ex-colleague and never got it back.
That is it. A superb read. Highly recommend it!Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before: Amazon.co.uk: Horwitz, Tony: 9780747564553: Books
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by Tony Horwitz
Yes, family story of ours is that farm was in my wifes side of the family, our claim to fameHis father was Scottish and worked as a supervisor/charge hand at Airy Hill Farm near the bottom of Roseberry Topping.
It is believed a local landowner paid for James Cook's schooling as it was expensive to go to school and uncommon for someone from his background in that period.
As Rob N will be able to back up his home as a young child was believed to be a cottage on the spot of a granite water fountain on the lawn of the former Marton Hall - only some stone arches survive next to the CC Birthplace Museum. The Hall was burnt down in the 1960s. The site of the cottage is marked though.
My grandad watched them take his cottage from Great Ayton in the early 1930s. I expect he bought this cottage with his Royal Navy wages. The area around Stokesley grew a lot of flax for sails in Cook's times, with quite a few local mills and the area provided men and officers for the Royal Navy and Merchant ships based on Whitby. There is a sailors trod acrosss the moors to Whitby from Great Ayton/Stokesley/Guisborough, hence the Jolly Sailors pub on the Moors road and graffiti of sailing ships in the ex Guisborough Jail.
My family had a RN member called Shout. His daughter married a male member of my family in Stokesley around 1820. When Middlesbrough started to take off a child of theirs moved to moved to the Boro in the late 1840s in one of the first streets and married a bricklayer (I guess it was a common occupation in early Victorian Middlesbrough).
The British Library did an excellent exhibition on Captain Cook and his Voyages about 5 years ago. I went to a talk there and you could tell they were scared stiff of being called promoters of British colonialism. James Cook was ahead of his time both on a social and technical level. His maps are very detailed and accurate, considering the technology of the time the maps are pretty unbelievable. His was able to deal with all ranks and all members of British society from the bottom to the top (extremely rare then), his rose from what is working class to almost upper middle class (very rare then), he also help integrate a non white pacific islander into London society, treating him as an equal - a first? I have forgotten his name but I am sure other posters can help you out.
Lieutenant/Captain Cook never claimed Australia etc for the British Crown - his main objective was to increase scientific and geographic knowledge. However what he found out laid the foundation for that to happen. A key event in Australia was setting up the first penal colony around 1788 @ Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). This was 9 years after Cook was killed.