Born about in Gidea Hall, Essex, , England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Anthony Cooke KB
and Anne (FitzWilliam) Cooke
Sister of
Mildred (Cooke) Cecil, Anne (Cooke) Bacon, Richard Cooke MP, Edward Cooke, Katherine (Cooke) Killigrew, Anthony Cooke, Elizabeth (Cooke) Russell and William Cooke MP
Wife of
Ralph Rowlett
— married
27 Jun 1558 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 18
in St Marys, London, , England [uncertain]
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Biography
Margaret Cooke was the daughter of Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall (1505-June 11, 1576) and Anne Fitzwilliam Cooke (c.1504-c.1558?). Estimates of her date of birth range from 1533 to 1540.
Margaret is the only one of the five sisters whose writings have not survived her and the only one who is not shown on the Cooke tomb in Romford Church in Essex.
She married on the same day as her sister, Elizabeth, Monday, 27 Jun 1558, at a time when their father was still in exile in Frankfurt. Her husband, Sir Ralph Rowlett, is variously described as a London goldsmith and as a rich merchant of Gorhambury’s heir. One source gives his father as the Sir Ralph Rowlett, one of the masters of the mint to Henry VIII. Sadly, Margaret died within a few weeks of the ceremony.
The diary of Henry Machyn supports that of Thomas Hoby in saying that, in spite of her family’s Protestant leanings, Margaret was one of Queen Mary’s maids of honor before her marriage.[1] This is confirmed in a manuscript diary of her brother-in-law Sir Thomas Hoby: "Monday the xxvijth of June [1558], the mariage was made and solemnised betweene me and Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, knight. The same day was also her syster Margaret, the Quene's maide, maried to Sir Rauf Rowlet, knight, who shortlie after departed out of this life."[2][3]
Birth
- Date: 1541
- Place: Gidea Hall, Essex, England
Marriage
- Married: Ralph (Robert) ROWLETT Monday 27 Jun 1558, Gidea Hall, Essex, England
Sources
- ↑ Tudor Place Website
- ↑ Hackness Manuscripts and Accounts, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series vol. XCV, 1938, p. 4
- ↑ Journal of Sir Thomas Hoby, Camden Miscellany, Vol. 10 (1902)
Acknowledgements
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