Sidney Hellings Cooke Sr. was born in Bermuda but we have no idea where. It would have been sometime around 1888. We show only that he was born in Bermuda and served in His Majesty's Army. The date we figured from how old he was when he died and the place was verified from a Birth Certificate that belonged to his only son, Sidney Hellings Cooke Jr. who was born in Cranford, New Jersey.