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Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke 1577 – 1663 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 25 Apr 1577

Birth Location: Nottinghamshire, England

Death Date: 1663

Death Location: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Sir served

Mother: Lady Caunton

Spouse(s): Hester Mahieu

Children(s): John (Mayflower)

Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke was born in 1577 in Nottinghamshire, England, the child of Sir Richard Edward Woodstocke Cooke of Gidea Hall (Followed his Father to court and served and Lady Alice Anne Caunton. Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke married Hester Mahieu, and had children including John Cooke (Mayflower). Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke passed away in 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

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Biography

  • Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke was born in 1577 in Nottinghamshire, England, the child of Sir Richard Edward Woodstocke Cooke of Gidea Hall (Followed his Father to court and served and Lady Alice Anne Caunton.
  • Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke married Hester Mahieu, and had children including John Cooke (Mayflower).
  • Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke passed away in 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

Immediate Family

Parents

Sir served
1521 – 1579
Birth Location: Gidea Hall, Romford, London Borough of Havering, Greater London, England
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Lady Caunton
1526 – 1618
Birth Location: Romford, London Borough of Havering, Greater London, England
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Spouses(s)

Hester Mahieu
1582 – 1666
Birth Location: Lille, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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Children(s)

John (Mayflower)
1607 – 1695
Birth Location: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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Francis Cooke's Ancestors

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Francis Cooke
1577 – 1663
Birth Place: Nottinghamshire, England
Parents
Sir Richard Edward Woodstocke Cooke of Gidea Hall (Followed his Father to court and served
1521 – 1579
Gidea Hall, Romford, London Borough of Havering, Greater London, England
Lady (Alice Anne) Caunton
1526 – 1618
Romford, London Borough of Havering, Greater London, England
Grandparents
Sir (Anthony "Knight of the Bath, Sheriff of Essex and Hertford" Cooke "Scholar" (Companion Tutor to King Edward) VI)
1504 – 1576
Gidea Hall, Romford (Essex) England
Lady (Anne "Ann" Brittany) Fitzwilliam
1504 – 1588
Gidea Hall, London, England
John (Thursten of) Caunton
1505 – 1548
Gidea Hall, Romford, Essex, England
Alice Richard
1502 – 1530
Essex, England
Great-Grandparents
John Knight
1473 – 1516
Alice Maria
1478 – 1517
William Fitzwilliam
1460 – 1534
Anne Hawes
1482 – 1507
Sir Thurston
1470 – 1540
Anne Fitzhugh
1473 – 1512
2nd-Great-Grandparents
John William
1410 –
Ellen Villiers
1410 –

Francis Cooke's Descendants

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Francis ("Mayflower Passenger") Cooke (25 Apr 1577 – 1663) m. Hester Mahieu (3 July 1582 – 18 Jun 1666)
  1. 1. John (Cooke) (Mayflower) (1607 – 23 Nov 1695) m. Sarah (Warren) (Mayflower) (1614 – 25 July 1686)
    1. 1. Elizabeth Cooke (1644 – 1702) m. Doctor (Daniel Pinchbeck) Wilcox (4 Mar 1631 – 2 July 1707)
      1. 1. Jane Wilcox (1668 – 1748) m. Benjamin Shelley (12 Mar 1679 – 1718)
        1. 1. Sarah Shelley (1698 – 12 Aug 1757) m. William (Walter Worden of) Stonington (1698 – 1781)

Francis Cooke's Timeline

4 Records

1577
25 Apr 1577
Birth of Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke in Nottinghamshire, England
Nottinghamshire, England
1643
1643
Age 66
Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke resided here in Arm Bearers, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Arm Bearers, Plymouth, Massachusetts
1663
7 Apr 1663
Age 86
Death of Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
1663
1663
Age 86
Death of Francis "Mayflower Passenger" Cooke
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Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 25 Apr 1577
    Event Place: Nottinghamshire, England
    Record Source:
    [1] Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
    [2] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Date: 1620
    Event Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Record Source: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts; Year: 1620; Page Number: 467

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Date: 1620
    Record Source: New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1643
    Event Place: Arm Bearers, Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Record Source: Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: Engelant
    Record Source: Netherlands, Marriage Index, 1524-1972, Erfgoed Leiden; Den Haag, Nederland; Trouwen

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source: History and genealogy of the Mayflower planters and first comers to ye olde colonie

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: New England
    Record Source: Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850

    Genealogy Event 8
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source: New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635

    Genealogy Event 9
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 7 Apr 1663
    Event Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current

    Genealogy Event 10
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1663
    Record Source: U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700

    Genealogy Event 11
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States of America
    Record Source: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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