Researching John Pook
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Pook on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Pook and the Pook Genealogy
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Pook Genealogy Databases
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Pook Forums
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Miscellaneous Pook Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on John Pook. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Pook
John Pook
John Barrie Pook (born 2 February 1942) is a British poet.
John Pook was born at Neath in South Wales, but grew up in Gowerton, near Swansea, and attended Gowerton Boys Grammar School. He afterwards took master's degrees, in English at Queens' College, Cambridge University (1964), and in Linguistics at Bangor University.
He has worked as an editor for an airline reservation company, and lives in the South of France. He has contributed to many poetry magazines and anthologies, and has published two collections of his verse - That Cornish Facing Door published by Gomer Press (1975) and Needing the Experience (2008).
In 1971, Pook won the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry.
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