Francis COOKE and Hester Mahieu (Le Mahieu)& Richard WARREN and Elizabeth

John Cooke and Sarah Warren
Sarah Cooke and Arthur Hathaway, Jr.
Mary Hathaway and Samuel Hammond
Thomas Hammond and Sarah Spooner
William Hammond and Elizabeth Shepard
Paul Hammond and Mary (Polly) Fuller - Revolutionary War
Benoni Hammond and Ruth Lobdell
Charles Hammond and Clarrisa Clark
Judge William Wallace Hammond and Any Ann Hurd - Civil War
Rosabelle A.A. Hammond and Charles J. Koepka
Wylie Koepka and Elizabeth Jackson
Myrtle Koepka and Niles Kauppanen
JoAnn Kauppanen and Masil Miller - my parents
David Miller and Ila Bailey - that's me 15 Generations later

FRANCIS COOKE, Mayflower emigrated in 1620 to Plymouth Colony, MA. He died on 7 Apr 1663 in Plymouth, MA. His will is made 7/10/1659. He makes his wife Hester and son John executors. It is witnessed by Howland and Alden. Inventory was taken 1663 by Eph. Tuckham and Wm Crowe.
He was born prob after 1582 in Probably England.
As a Mayflower ancestor, Francis Cooke is documented rather thoroughly in numerous volumes; thus, we leave it to those studies for in-depth information. The recent volume "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 12, Francis Cooke, Ralph V. Wood, et all, Picton Press, 1996, is probably the most comprehensive abstract to date on this Mayflower Family.

Background:

A 1620 Mayflower passenger, Francis Cooke married Hester Mayhieu at Leiden 30 June 1603, the records there describing him as a woolcomber, unmarried, from England (MD 8:48). Thus he was in Holland before the arrival of the Clyfton/Robinson Separatists. He was probably born no earlier than 1583, for he must have been under sixty in 1643 when he was on the ATBA for Plymouth, and yet not much after 1583 if he married in 1603. He appears frequently in Plymouth records on grand and trial juries, as a surveyor of the highways, on various ad hoc committees, and in a number of land transactions. (See Bowman's "Francis Cooke and His Descendants," MD 3:95.)
He came to Plymouth with son John, and Francis's wife and their daughter Jane and son Jacob arrived on the Anne in 1623. Two more children, Hester and Mary, were born at Plymouth.
Suffice it to say, Francis Cooke, born, probably in England after 1582, arrived on the Mayflower and was among those signing the Mayflower Compact. His early life abroad is virtually unknown to us. He married Hester Mahieu, intention in Leyden, Holland, 30, June 1603. probably about the age of 19 or 20. He was was called a "woolcomber." He and his son John were the first to arrive, with Hester and the other children following later.
Francis Cooke died 7 April 1663, having labored in this new land for some 43 years and receiving various additional land grants. His will and inventory enumerates his belongings and his bequests. He and his wife Hester had eight children. By 1666, of these children, John, Jacob, Hester and Mary were living, as was the widow Hester. Hester died after 8 June 1666.
Children were: Jane COOKE, John COOKE, Child COOKE, Elizabeth COOKE, Jacob COOKE, Hester COOKE, Mary COOKE.

JOHN COOKE (Francis1) died at Dartmouth, Mass., 23 November (3 December, new style), 1695, and his will and inventory are found in the Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Volume 1, pages 139 and 140. But one original paper remains in the probate files-the bond of the executrix, Sarah Cooke, daughter of Richard Warren. The date of this bond, 15 July, 1696 (25 July, N. S.), is the latest on which I have found any mention of the widow Sarah.
He was born prob late 1606 in prob Leyden, Holland. Wood: Babtized in Leyden between 1 January and 31 March 1607. John came with his father on the Mayflower.
Parents: Francis COOKE Mayflower and Hester LE MAHIEU.
He was married to Sarah WARREN on 28 Mar 1634.
Children were: Sarah COOKE, Elizabeth COOKE, Hester/Esther COOKE, Mary COOKE, Mercy COOKE.

Created on ... February 15, 2001