X00170 Possible Harry Hook in Directories - Solved!

Some time ago I had been searching for appearences of Harry Theodore Hook in city directories including some of these:

1899 Post Office Directory of London:

and

As well as in this directory from Suffolk:

As well as some other directories showing a Harry Hook on Malden Road

I can rule out the Sussex directory appearance, as I have never seen any reference to him living in Sussex.

As for the Malden Road references, I don't have anything that places him in a certain profession or location in 1899; the closest that I have is 1901 where he was a clerk in Chiswick. Nothing to connect him to Malden Road, or the profession of grocer. So with that, I have nothing to suggest that he is the same Harry Hook as in the directories.

X00122 John Logan Hook Date of Death Solved!

I had some information from other family members that John Logan Hook, a son of James Hook had died in Sierra Leone around 1850-1852 but I didn't have any death information.

I have since come across this article from The Morning Chronicle from 1852

So I have now been able to confirm that he died 30 September 1852

X00361 Is this Tew family connected?

I came across this article in the Oakville Record from 1960

I don't recognize any of the names, and this Tew family looks to have come from England, whereas mine came from Ireland. But it's worth investigating

Willard Eugene Madden

On 23 February 1941, PO Willard Eugene Madden was flying in a Harvard II A.J. 559, about four miles north-west of Collins Bay, near Odessa, Ontario with pupil pilot Walter Herbert Riddett from Wiltshire, England. At the same time, Lead Airman Claude Anthony Trebel, from Hampshire, England was also piloting a training aircraft, and the two planes collided in mid-air, killing all three airmen [D05215, D05220].

Willard Eugene Madden is buried in the Erskine Cemetery in Dunbarton Ontario. Walter Herbert Ridett and Claude Anthony Trebel are buried in Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario. All three are memorialized in the Book of Remembrance.

Find a Grave Links:

• Pilot Officer Willard Eugene Madden
• Leading Airman Claude Anthony Trebel
• Leading Airman Walter Herbert Ridett

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Sources:
[D05215] Canada, "Canada World War II Service Files," Madden, Willard Eugene; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca

[D05220] "Eight Airmen Are Killed In Ontario in Two Days,"Globe and Mail, 25 February 1942, p. 1, col. 2.