Crozier[1] reports a tradition that Mordecai Cooke, son of Mordecai Cooke the immigrant, married a "Miss Buckner" and elaborates that "it is believed that" Richard's daughter Elizabeth married him. It is difficult to extricate reported traditions from suppositions from Crozier's text, but that particular Mordecai Cooke was probably around the same age as Richard himself, so if he married a Miss Buckner, chances are it was not one of Richard's daughters, especially since most of Richard's children seem to have been born fairly late in his life, after 1700 (e.g. Susanna in 1721). Others have attempted to explain this by transferring the still largely hypothetical Elizabeth Buckner to one of the later Mordecai Cookes, but since we are not actually sure that any of these claims are true in the first place, there is probably little point in attempting to guess which Mordecai Cooke may have married a Buckner who may have been named Elizabeth and may have been the daughter of Richard Buckner. We would certainly be overreaching the limits of our knowledge to generate database entries from this speculation. Even if Mordecai Cooke II married a Miss Buckner, which is not inherently improbable since the families were closely connected, there were numerous other Buckners who could have been her father.
Buckner family tree states the following "known children"
3. i. Elizabeth Buckner, b. 1690; m. Mordecai Cooke III. ii. Maj. Richard Buckner; b. circa 1720 at Virginia; m. Elizabeth Aylett, daughter of William Aylett; d. Dec 1777 at Virginia. iii. Philip Buckner. iv. John Buckner. v. William Buckner.
Buckner Family Tree Generation One
1. John Buckner; b. at England; m. Debora Ferrers 1661 at England; d. circa 1695. He was educated at Oxford, England. He immigrated in 1667 to Virginia. He resided at Gloucester Co., VA. Debora Ferrers resided at West Wickham, Bucks, England. Known children of John Buckner and Debora Ferrers were as follows: 2. i. Richard Buckner, b. 1662; m. Elizabeth Cooke. ii. Thomas Buckner. iii. William Buckner. iv. John Buckner Jr. v. Elizabeth Buckner.
Generation Two
2. Richard Buckner (John1); b. 1662; m. Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of Hon. Mordecai Cooke and Frances Ironmonger, circa 1689; d. 1733. He resided at Essex Co., VA. He was County Clerk between 1703 and 1712 at Essex Co., VA. He was Clerk of the House of Burgesses in 1714 at Virginia. He left a will; proved 4 Mar 1733.
Elizabeth Cooke died in 1748. Known children of Richard Buckner and Elizabeth Cooke were as follows: 3. i. Elizabeth Buckner, b. 1690; m. Mordecai Cooke III. ii. Maj. Richard Buckner; b. circa 1720 at Virginia; m. Elizabeth Aylett, daughter of William Aylett; d. Dec 1777 at Virginia. iii. Philip Buckner. iv. John Buckner. v. William Buckner.
Generation Three
3. Elizabeth Buckner (Richard2, John1); b. 1690; m. Mordecai Cooke III circa 1706; d. 1770.
Mordecai Cooke III was born in 1680. He resided at 'Woodbury', Gloucester Co., VA. He was a member of the House of Burgesses at Virginia. He died in 1715. Buckner Family Genealogy (Add documentation as available.).
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It is unlikely that all of the children listed as siblings are correct. Some names will be eliminated by merger, others may need to be reattached to their correct parentage. (11/17/2015)
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