December 21
December 21
On December 21, 1762, at St Margaret's Church in Barking. Elizabeth was the daughter of the innkeeper of The Bell at Wapping, and James Cook resided further upriver at Shadwell. Cook was fourteen years older than Elizabeth, who was only twenty years old. Because neither of them belonged to the parish of Barking, they were married by George Downing, vicar of Little Wakering in Essex, with the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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