The Kidd Family
The Family Tree
Down the trunk runs the direct line — Robens becoming Cook becoming Kidd, one generation after another. Off to each side, the families that married into it: Jeffries, Baldock, Cook, and every line still to come. Some are fully told; most are still just a name and a date, waiting their turn.
Sussex brickmakers of Hurst Green and Salehurst — Sarah Ann’s own people.
Not yet researchedWilliam Baldock (1797–1869), a Sussex brewer, and Louisa Coleman (1804–1879) — bounty immigrants aboard the William Metcalfe, 1838.
Read their story Bawn Contemporaries of Stephen & Sarah — Frances Elizabeth Bawn’s parentsGeorge Bawn (1813–1883) and Ellen McIntosh (1820–1860), of Surry Hills — and the doorway into the McIntosh line beyond.
Read their story McIntosh A further generation back — Ellen McIntosh’s own parentsRobert McIntosh (1781–1829), a Perthshire farm boy turned Sydney bandmaster and Pittwater settler, and Eleanor Dudgeon (1788–1826) — whose estate was still being fought over in the Supreme Court in 1851, and again in 1917.
Read their storyEthel & William Cook
Bridge Road, Ryde
In the writingA boxmaker’s family — the line that carries the surname onward.
Not yet researchedAlexander Currie Cook (c.1810–1851), an Arran-born surgeon who lost his parents, sister and wife on the fever ship Minerva in 1837–38, and Anna Maria Rainy (1817–1853) of London and Sydney.
Read their storyThe Cook Generation
Frederick, Bruce & their own
In the writingThe line this whole history is named for — still to be traced.
Not yet researchedThe Kidd Family
Into Living Memory
In the writingCatt, Cook, Kidd, and every other name still filed away as a certificate in an archive box — each will take its place on this tree as the research reaches it. The tree is never finished; it only ever fills in further.