William Cooke (1613 - 1679)

Born 25 Mar 1613 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Blackbourne — married 4 Jun 1632 in Bristol, England

Husband of Mary (Miles) Cooke — married 10 Apr 1665 in Surry County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1679 at age 66 in Surry, Surry, Virginia

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Ross Holman [send private message], Donna Perkins [send private message], Ben Cook [send private message], and Eric Allen [send private message]

Biography

This profile is part of the Cook Name Study.

William Cooke was baptised on 17 Mar 1613 in Saint Augustine The Less, Bristol, Gloucester, England to parents Phillip (Cooke) Cook I and Elsabeth. ^[1] His mother's maiden name is unknown.

Willyam married Mary Blackborne on 4 Jun 1632 in Saint Augustine The Less, Bristol, Gloucester, England. ^[2] William and Mary had one son, William Cooke (2nd), who was presumably vorn about 1633, but no reference to the baptism of any children of this marriage is recorded in St. Augustine's Parish registers. ^[3]

Justinian Cooper of Isle of Wight County was granted 1000 acres for transporting 20 persons to the Colony of Virginia, including William Cooke. The land patent was entered in Warrisquick County on 13 Sep 1636 and in Isle of Wight County on 16 Aug 1637. Although the entries do not give the actual date of the arrival of these immigrants, William was most likely in Virginia prior to 13 Sep 1636. ^{[4] [5] [6]} Warrisquick (Warrosquyoake) County became Isle of Wight County in 1637 which may explain the double entry. ^[7]

On 29 Sep 1664, Wm Miles and Wm Cooke, Senr, acquired 1100 acres on the second branch of the Blackwater adjoining the land of John Oliver and Mr. England. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: "England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
   England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013; FHL Film Number: 824375
   Ancestry Record 9841 #54292998 (accessed 27 December 2022)
   William Cooke baptism on 27 Mar 1613, son of Phillip Cooke & Elsabeth, in Saint Augustine The Less, Bristol, Gloucester, England.
2. ↑ Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St.Aug/R/1/a, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61666&h=90504116&ssrc=pt&tid=3070208&pid=-339681274&usePUB=true
3. ↑ Southside Virginia Families Vol I, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-SouthsideVAFamil
   ies&h=106512&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
   
4. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I, pages 47 & 64, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-CavaliersPioneer
   s&h=334204&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
   
5. ↑ Virginia Land Records, page 652, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-VALandRecords&h=
   346216&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
   
6. ↑ Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666, pages 76 & 77, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-VAImmigrants&h=3
   45205&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
   
7. ↑ http://www.armentroutsurveying.com/Gallery02/Formation%20of%20Virginia%20Counties%20from%201634%20Page1.htm
8. ↑ Virginia Land Records, page 197, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-VALandRecords&h=
   346216&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
   

Biographical Notes

Note: Mary Miles and William had three children after marrying in Surry County, Virginia on 10 Apr 1665 when William was 52. They were Mary (1665-?) Sarah (1667-?) and Ann (1669-?.)

Mary died in 1716 at 71 years of age in Surry County, Virginia.

Mary married Robert Lacey after William's death. She and Lacey appeared in court in 1680 to confirm the sale of land that William was in the process of selling to Thomas Ward when he died. (Source: Davis, Wills Surry County)

Biography (prior) Continued

Caution-this biography is scrambled between a father and son..new information in progress....The record does state that the elder William married again in 1636 (not in that parish) to Ann _______ and that a son Philip was born of this union. This second marriage and birth were probably also in Virginia, as was a third marriage to another Mary. William, the immigrant, was in Virginia by 1634 when he and William Miles patented 1100 acres in Isle of Wight County on the second branch of the Blackwater, adjacent to John Oliver and Frances English. The third wife, Mary ______ was named when William sold 400 acres in Isle of Wight in 1669 before moving on to Surry County. He died in Surry before 1879 as his wife had remarried by that date.

In 1664, the second William Cooke (this man's son) patented 360 acres in Isle of Wight at the head of a branch of the Blackwater. Before 1665 he married Joan Roper, the daughter of Hugh Roper of Burnham in Somerset, England and in the next year she received a legacy from her father. Because he had a son also named William, he signed his will as "William Cooke, Sr." in 1698. The will was probated that August. He gave his three sons, John, William and Reuben, each a plantation. His wife Joan was given "the plantation I now live on" which, at her death, was given to the son Thomas, not 21. His widow Joan married John Carrell and died in 1720. The children of William and Joan were John (m. Hannah Jones), William (m.Rebecca Jones) , Reuben (m. Hannah Atkinson Gee), Thomas (m. Mary Jones), Elizabeth (m.John Weaver), Joanna (m. _____Burrow), Sarah (m. Samuel Cornwall) and another daughter who married Samuel Hargrove.

On September 20, 1727, the third William Cooke (this man's grandson) and his wife, Rebecca Jones, deeded to William Briggs for their sons, James and Reuben Cooke, the land left Rebecca by her father. William's will was written May 1, 1740 and was probated in November of that year. The children were James, William (m. Elizabeth Rives), Reuben (m. Anne _____), Elizabeth (m. Thomas Tomlinson), Rebecca (m. James Anderson), Sarah (m. Henry Mitchell), Mary (m. Willam Briggs) , Susannah (m. Michael Gary), Hannah (m. Richard Gary) and Amy (m. John Maclin).

Christening:

Date: March 27, 1613

Place: Saint Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucester, England

Name:

Given: William Cooke I

Alias: William Cooke Sr

Alternate Spellings of last name: Coke, Cook

Father: Phillip Cooke I (c. December 27, 1589 d. circa 1630)

Mother: Elisabeth Cooke (b. 1590 d. 1614)

Step-mother: Lucia Cooke (b. circa 1603 d. circa 1630)

Siblings:

1. Edward Cooke (c. March 20, 1625 Bristol, Gloucester, England)
2. Anne Cooke (c. October 2, 1614 Bristol, Gloucester, England)
3. Lucie Cooke (c. February 15, 1627 Bristol, Gloucester, England)
4. Mary Cooke (c. August 22, 1628 Bristol, Gloucester, England)
5. Martha Cooke (c. January 13, 1630 Bristol, Gloucester, England)

Spouse: Mary Miles (c. 1614 d. 1716)

Children:

1. Eleanor Cooke Carter (b. 1633 d. 1669 m. Thomas Carter Sr.)
2. Frances Cooke Person (b. 1640 d. 1721 m. John Person)
3. William Cooke II (c. 1633 d. 1698 m. Joan Roper)
4. James Cooke (b. 1642 d. 1698)
5. John Cooke (b. 1658 d. 1711)

Arrival:

Date: 1635

Place: Virginia

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Gale Research. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009. Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850. Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPX3-B4G : accessed 17 November 2015), Phillip Cooke in entry for William Cooke, 27 Mar 1613; citing SAINT AUGUSTINE THE LESS,BRISTOL,GLOUCESTER,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 824,375.