Maternal grandson of Ronald Allison Cooke (b. Massachusetts) (son of Harry Locke Cooke (b. Lockeport, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada) and wife Mary Emma McCoy of Clan Mackay (b. Massachusetts), paternal grandson of Guyon Cooke and wife Martha McDonald of Clan Donald or Locke and maternal grandson of John McCoy of Clan Mackay (b. Northern Ireland, Ulster, Ireland, Great-Britain and Ireland), and wife Elizabeth A. Lawthers (b. England, Great-Britain and Ireland) and wife Ruth Edna Small (b. Massachusetts) (daughter of Thomas Raymond "Roy" or "Ray" Small (b. Bagdad, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada) and wife Janet "Nettie" McLea of Clan MacLea (b. New Jersey), paternal granddaughter of James Edwin Small and wife Isabel or Isabella Caroline Gamblin, whose own mother was born in Ireland, Great-Britain and Ireland, and maternal granddaughter of James Brown McLea of Clan MacLea and wife Margaret Turner of Clan Donald, who were both emigrants from Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Great-Britain and Ireland).