Person    | Female  Born 20/7/1953  Died 28/2/1975

Janet Marie Cook

Categories: Tragedy

Janet Marie Cook was killed in the Moorgate tube disaster and is shown as 'COOK, JANET' on the memorial in Finsbury Square, London, EC2.

Her death, aged 21 years, on 28 February 1975 was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1975 in the London City Registration District, where her date of birth was recorded as 20 July 1953. However, our image source (in 2025) gives her year of birth as 1957 and the Deceased on Line website shows that her body was cremated on 10 March 1975 in Islington. Her niece, Lisa Cook, claimed in May 2015 on the National Archives website that her aunt was 17-years-old when she died.

Probate records show her address to have been 3 The Woodlands, Aberdeen Park, London, N5 and that she died on 4 March 1975. Administration of her estate was granted on 26 January 1976 and her effects totalled £843. The date of 4 March 1975 is probably recorded as being the date that her death was certified. She was one of the last bodies to be recovered, an operation that took four days to complete.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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