Born about 1621 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Lydia (Vore) Cooke — married 29 Jun 1649 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 19 May 1688 at about age 67 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

If he was the son of John Cooke Jr. alias Hooper ( Hooper-4570 ) and Rachel Daubney ( Daubney-71 ), then he is the Nathaniel Cooke baptized on 20 March 1620/21, Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England. He was married on 29 June 1649, Windsor, Connecticut, to Lydia Vore (who was also from Crewkerne). He died at Windsor on 19 May 1688.

Parents

Since genetic testing has shown that Aaron Cooke was not Nathaniel's father (see below), the only likely alternative is that found in Volume 19 of "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630", which has an article suggesting that Nathaniel Cooke was possibly the Nathaniel Cooke baptized on 20 March 1620/21 at Crewkerne, Somersetshire , the son of John Cooke Jr (alias Hooper) and Rachel Daubney.

Nathaniel would therefore have probably known the Vore family (parents of his future wife) when he was growing up at Crewkerne. He would have been a younger first cousin of Rev. John Warham who was also born in Crewkerne and also eventually ended up in Windsor, Connecticut. Since Nathaniel's presumed father died when he was just a baby, his prospects in England may not have been good, and joining his cousin John Warham in Connecticut may have been his best option.

In Anderson's Great Migration Begins profile of Aaron Cooke, he writes: "Pope also gives Aaron an oldest child Nathaniel, but Nathaniel Cooke of Windsor married in 1649, which would make him too old to be a son of Aaron.)"^[1]

Genetic Evidence

There is now genetic evidence that Nathaniel Cooke was not related to Aaron Cooke at all. Aaron is in Haplogroup I1, and Nathaniel is in Haplogroup R1b. Source: Cook/Cooke/Koch DNA Project Results https://www.familytreedna.com/public/cook/default.aspx?section=yresults

Williamson's "Big Tree" now has one of our Cookes (Kit No. 297627) and narrows down Nathaniel's haplogroup to R-FGC18229, a subclade of R-FGC13899, etc. Source: The Big Tree clade FGC13899 http://ytree.net/DisplayTree.php?blockID=168 .

Marriage and children

He married Lidia Vore 29 Jun 1649 and had the following children:^[2]

1. Sara 28 Jun 1650
2. Lidia, 9 Jan 1652/53
3. Hanna, 21 Sept 1655
4. Nathaniel, 13 May 1658
5. Abigail, 1 March 1659/60
6. John, 3 Apr 1662
7. Josia, 22 Dec 1664

Nathaniel was listed among Windsor freemen in 1669.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA (1995), p 467
2. ↑ NEHGR, 5(1851):65
3. ↑ NEHGR 5(1851):247

• Hinman, Royal Ralph. A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1852)
• The Ancestry of Jesse Cook and His Descendants
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700
• Coddington, John Insley. A Clue to The English Home of Richard Voare (or Vore) of Dorchester and Windsor, The American Genealogist (1950) Vol. 26, Page 68.

• "He may be the Nathaniel Cooke who, with Susanna and Mary Cooke, were named as nephew and nieces in the will, dated 6 Oct. 1637, proved 12 Feb. 1637/8, of Mary (White) Terry of Dorcester, co. Dorset, England, the mother of Stephen Terry of Windsor."