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Thomas Cook Sr. (1704 - abt. 1752)

Thomas Cook Sr.
Born in Norwich, Cheshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1730 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 47 in London Grove, York County, Pennsylvaniamap [uncertain]
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Contents

Biography

Thomas was a Friend (Quaker)

Thomas was born on 29 Aug 1704 in Norwich, Cheshire, England.[1][2] He was the son of Peter Cook and Elinor (Norman) Cook.[1]

He married Mary Underwood in 1730.[3][4]

He died about 25 Mar 1752 in London Grove, York County, Pennsylvania. He was buried in Warrington Friends Meeting House Cemetery.[5]

Children

Children of Thomas Cook:

Research Notes

He may have removed to the Carolinas with brother Isaac[6] as son Isaac married at Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina

Note N6487Birth: Aug. 29, 1704Cheshire, EnglandDeath: Mar. 25, 1752York CountyPennsylvania, USA Thomas was buried at the Warrington Meeting House Cemetery in York County, PA. [7]

Family links: Parents: Peter Cook (1675 - 1713) Elinor Norman Fincher (1672 - 1726) Spouse: Mary Underwood Wells (1712 - 1794) Children: Abraham Cook (1731 - 1793)* Isaac Cook (1743 - 1820)* Jacob Cook (1746 - ____)* Mary Elizabeth Cook Sumner (1747 - 1809)* Thomas Cook (1751 - 1805)* Siblings: John Cooke (1696 - 1759)* Peter Cook (1700 - 1779)* Thomas Cook (1704 - 1752) *Calculated relationship Burial:Warrington Friends Meeting House Cemetery WellsvilleYork CountyPennsylvania, USA https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51294011/thomas-cook Created by: Sue McDuffe:)Record added: Apr 18, 2010.

pg. 47 Cook, Thomas twin 1704 8 29 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich

I have recently found the following additional data concerning V. Thomas Cook:

Letters of administration on estate of Thomas Cook, yeoman, deceased, of Warrington twp., York county, Pa., were granted to his widow, Mary Cook, March 25, 1751. At the Orphans' Court of York county, Nov. 26, 1752, Abraham Cook, heir at law of Thomas Cook, deceased, in a petition states that his father died intestate having a widow and issue beside himself, seven children, Sarah, Ruth, Alexander, Isaac, Jacob, Mary and Thomas, minors. Thomas Cox, who married VIII. Mary Cook, by a warrant (No. 113) from the proprietaries, dated March 30, 1738 (patented Sept. 19, 1748), was granted a tract of 200 acres "of land settled by him in 1733 adjoining a tract of two hundred acres surveyed to James Logan, Esquire, on the west side of Sasquehannah river in Hallem township," Lancaster (now York county, Pa.) --ACM

YORK COUNTY 1753

COOKE, Mary widow Feb? for 50 acres adjoining William SMITH in Warrington.

Washington Township

Survey #3105 York Warrant: C-46 WARRANT - March 9, 1753, 50 acres to Mary Cook, widow Interest: York - 4442 SURVEY - May 19, 1753, 145 acres to Mary Cook PATENT - October 10, 1789, 145 acres to William Nevitt P-16-242; C-104 (survey); York-10829; York-11064


Thomas Cook, a prominent member of Warrington Monthly Meeting, died in 1752 at the age of forty-eight. Two years later, on 7-20-1754, Warrington Monthly Meeting recorded the following minute: "Mary Cook certificate requested for her son Abraham and the rest of her children that goes with her . . . to Cane Creek Meeting in North Carolina they being about to remove there."

1758, 5, 27. Joseph, of Cane Creek MM, rmt Mary Cook

1758, 5, 27. Mary, widow, late of Pa., rmt Joseph Wels, of Cane Creek.

1758, 7, 1. Mary & ch, Isaac, Mary & Thomas, rocf New Garden MM.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWN2-ZP1 : 11 December 2014), Thomas Abraham Cook, 29 Oct 1704, Birth; citing p. 40, Cheshire & Staffordshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London.
  2. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWN2-ZP1 : 11 December 2014), Thomas Abraham Cook, 29 Oct 1704, Birth; citing p. 40, Cheshire & Staffordshire, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London.
  3. ↑ "Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG54-4KB3 : 12 February 2020), Thomas Grindall and Eleanor Cook, 15 Jan 1731; citing Marriage, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, Delaware Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Dover.
  4. ↑ "Delaware Marriages, 1713-1919", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7R9-B3G : 11 January 2020), Thomas Grindall, 1731.
  5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 January 2021), memorial page for Thomas Cook (29 Aug 1704–25 Mar 1752), Find A Grave: Memorial #51294011, citing Warrington Friends Meeting House Cemetery, Wellsville, York County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Sue McDuffe:) (contributor 47122067) .
  6. ↑ Biographical Memoirs of Jay County, Indiana by B.F. Bowen, 1901 pg. 606-607
  7. ↑ Charity Cook: a Liberated Woman. Professor and Quaker Historian, Algie Newlin
  • Chesire and Staffs Quarterly Meeting Digest Registers 1648 - 1837, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  • US Marriage Records 1560-1900, Thomas Cook married Mary Underwood 1730 Pennsylvania
  • "England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3H6-T5S : 7 December 2017), Thomas, ; citing 2, Great Budworth, Frandley Society of Friends, Frandley, Cheshire, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,299,551. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3H6-T5S
  • FamilySearch profile.

Religious Society of Friends Quaker Digest Registers, Births, Marriages & Deaths For England and Wales c.1650-1837 -- Cheshire & Staffs Quarterly Meeting Digest Registers 1648-1837 - LDS FHL Fiche #1484597 (original birth records)

  • Albert Cook Myers Collection CCHS
  • Warrington And Washington Townships York County, Pennsylvania - Original Pennsylvania Land Records Series, Vol. 14, page 90, Neal Otto Hively, 2002
  • Newlin, Algie I.Charity Cook -- A Liberated Woman, page 35 1981
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. I, North Carolina, page 580, New Garden Monthly Meeting Guilford Co., North Carolina "Minutes and Marriage Records" under "Wels" William Wade Hinshaw 1936
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. I, North Carolina, page 534, New Garden Monthly Meeting Guilford Co., North Carolina "Minutes and Marriage Records" under "Cook" William Wade Hinshaw 1936,
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I North Carolina, page 427, Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Orange (now Alamance) Co., North Carolina "Minutes and Marriage Records" under "Wells" William Wade Hinshaw 1936




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Mahaney-128 Karen (Mahaney) Raichle
This entry has also created duplicates for the parents and children. It is suggested that merges begin with the parents. Then the children and grandchildren will be merged later.

Elinor Norman Norman-8051 should be merged with Elinor Norman Cook Norman-178

Peter Cooke Cooke-7888 should be merged with Peter Cook Cook-564 but the spelling of the last name Cook/Cooke needs to be determined prior to the merge using a source for the correct spelling of the last name at birth (LNAB).

posted on Cook-40757 (merged) by Karen (Mahaney) Raichle
Glenn York
Cook-2520 and Cook-40757 appear to represent the same person because: Same dates, parents, and spouse. Most children match.
posted on Cook-40757 (merged) by Glenn York
Glenn York
Cook-2520 and Cook-7821 appear to represent the same person because: Same spouse. Dates need some work.
posted on Cook-7821 (merged) by Glenn York
Mahaney-128 Karen (Mahaney) Raichle
The birth and death dates on this profile are not possible. The marriage of Mary Underwood to Thomas Cook took place in 1730. She could not have married a man who was not yet born. Mary (Underwood) Cook married second in 1758 to Joseph Wells. She would not have been allowed a Quaker marriage is she were not already a widow at this time. Her first husband was dead by 1752.

Mary Underwood was married only twice. Mary married first to Thomas Cook Cook-2520 in Sep 1730, the son of the late Peter Cooke & Eleanor (Norman) Cooke of Cheshire England. They married at London Grove Quaker Meeting House in Chester Co PA. She was not married to two different men named Thomas Cook. Thomas Cook Cook-7821 showing a birth year of 1731 should either be disconnected, or if this profile was intended to be her first husband, then his year of birth should be corrected and he should be merged with Cook-2520.

There are two profiles for daughters named Mary. Mary Cook-9702 married to William Uriah Carson Carson-1894 and Mary Cook-2551 married to Caleb Sumner Sumner-276. Mary Underwood and Thomas Cook only had one daughter named Mary. She married first William Uriah Carter and second Caleb Sumner.

These two profiles appear to be for the same daughter, but one is connected to a father of Cook-2520 and the other to a father of Cook-7821. Both profiles for daughter Mary should be connected to the correct father which is Thomas Cook Cook-2520 and then merged.

posted on Cook-7821 (merged) by Karen (Mahaney) Raichle
Sahler-39 Cherie (Sahler) Dacko
From The Family News Vol. #1, 1903, by Allen Merrian Cook, Norfolk, Virginia:

"Thomas and his parents endured many heartbreaks. Thomas' twin brother Abraham died at one month, and he lost 2-year-old sister Mary in England. Thomas was around nine years old when he arrived with his remaining 6 brothers and sisters in America from England in 1713, his father having lost his life on the journey over. Shortly after arrival in Pennsylvania, Thomas lost his 2 year old brother, Samuel. He lived in multiple places in Chester Co., Pa with his family as a child. Thomas married Mary Underwood at the Warrington Monthly Meeting in 1731. Thomas and Mary were Quakers, and attended London Grove Monthly Meetings. Thomas moved his young family from Pennsylvania to the Carolinas. He and his brother Peter donated money to buy the land for the Warrington Monthly Meeting to the Menallen Monthly Meeting. Warrington is nine miles southwest of Newberry Co, SC. After his death in 1752, some of his children, including Isaac, got a certificate of removal from Warrington Monthly Meeting, PA to move to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina on 7-20-1754. Other family members later moved to South Carolina to start their families."

Source: Reference: ("Charity Cook: a Liberated Woman" and Professor and Quaker Historian, Algie Newlin (Note: Thomas Cook and Mary Underwood are my 6th GG. I am descended from their son, Isaac)

posted by Cherie (Sahler) Dacko
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Gaddy-237 Rebekah (Gaddy) Mandina
London Grove Quaker Meeting House in Chester Co PA. is where Thomas and Mary were pronounced married. New Garden MM records in Chester Co PA:

8-31-1730 - Londongrove Preparative Meeting informs also "ye Alexander Underwood's Daughter is with Childe by Thomas Cooke."

9-28-1730 - Wm. Swaine gives account yt he and Thos: "Speakman was with Thos. Cooke and Alexander Underwood's Daughter and yt they seem sorry for what they have done and this meeting is informed that they are marryed."

posted by Rebekah (Gaddy) Mandina
Hoolihan-104 Leigh (Hoolihan) Murrin
Cook-10964 and Cook-2520 appear to represent the same person because: Same birth year and parents
posted by Leigh (Hoolihan) Murrin

Rejected matches › Thomas Cook Jr. (1731-1820) › Thomas Cook (1729-) › Thomas Cook (bef.1733-)

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