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Ancestry of Ethel B. Miles
Descendants of FRANCIS Cooke
Generation No. 1
1. CAPT. FRANCIS 1 COOKE was born 1577 in Blythe, York, England 1,2 , and died April 07, 1663 in
Middleborough, Plymouth, Mass, USA 3 . He married ESTER MAHIEU June 30, 1603 in The
Netherlands 4,5,6 . She was born 1592 in Walloon, Belgium ?? 7 , and died Aft. 1663 in Middleborough,
Plymouth, Mass, USA ?? 8 .
Notes for CAPT. FRANCIS COOKE:
NOTES from Amelia Morrow
First appeared in Leiden in April 1603 as a witness to the betrothal of Raphael Roelandt, another
woolcomber would would witness his own betrothal in June. He is described in the betrothal record as
a bachelor from England. There is no record of their actual marriage, which was probably at the Leiden
Walloon Reformed Church (records of which from before 1604 are missing). Hester and Francis were
later members of the church - they had their children baptized there and letters of transfer were written
to Norwich on their behalf.[408] They left for Norwich on 8 Aug 1606, and Francis Cooke was
readmitted to the Leiden church by communion on New Year's Day, 1608. They returned briefly during
this time to have their son baptized there. [NEHGR 189:197] An article in Mayflower Descendant
27:145-55 points out that intentions were entered in July 4 and 5. Banns then would have been read
the next three Sundays: July 6, 13 and 20th, meaning the 20th was the soonest the marriage could
have taken place. [357]
Sailed on the Mayflower with his son John (who was the last surviving member of the Pilgrims, dying in
1695). His wife Hester and their children came on the Ann in 1623.[297] Active in Plymouth civil affairs
in the 1630s and 40s - commitees to lay out land grants and highways, petit jury, grand jury, coroner's
jury. He appears on the 1643 Plymouth list of those able to bear arms. In 1623 Plymouth land division
received two acres as passenger on Mayflower, plus four acres for the rest of his family which came
on the Anne in 1623 [ PCR 12:4, 5]; some of this land had apparently been sold to William Bradford by
1639 [ PCR 12:51].[472] At some point in 1638 or afterward, he settled at Rocky Nook on Jones River,
within the limits of Kingston, a few miles from Plymouth. He named his place "Cooke's Hollow.
Francis' birth date is placed by a group of somewhat conflicting records: a note in Winthrop's Journal
says he died above the age of 80, he is listed on an Aug 1643 list of men aged 16-60 able to bear
arms, and he was married without accompanying family in 1603. (Mayflower Genealogy:
http://members.aol.com/calebj/passenger.html)
More About CAPT. FRANCIS COOKE:
Comment: 17th signer of the Mayflower Compact
Freeman: 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass, USA
Immigration 1: 1620, Mayflower with son John
Immigration 2: Bef. 1603, fled to Holland with Pastor Robinson
Military service: 1637, Pequot War
Occupation: Carpenter, woolcomber
Religion 1: Bef. 1676, Puritan
Religion 2: Leiden Walloon Church, a congregation of French-speaking Belgian people whose beliefs
were very similar to those of the English Separatists
Religion 3: 1676, Baptist with Obadiah Holmes in Newport
Web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/fcooke.html
More About ESTER MAHIEU:
Immigration: 1623, Arrived on the Ann with children Jacob, Jane and Esther
Register Report of FRANCIS Cooke: 77