Born 18 May 1685 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, New England

Ancestors

Wife of John Faunce — married 23 Feb 1710 (to 7 Jul 1738) in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 7 Jul 1738 in Kingston, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Lydia Cook was born on 18 May 1685 in Plymouth, (then) Plymouth Colony, the daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Miller) Cooke.^[1][2]

She married in Plymouth, on 23 February 1710, John Faunce,^[3] the son of Joseph Faunce and his wife Judith Rickard.^[4]

Lydia died at Kingston, (then) Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, on 07 July 1738, aged 53 years.^[5] She was buried in the Old Burying Ground in Kingston and her gravestone can be viewed at Findagrave.com memorial #44124258.

Birth

• "Mayflower Births & Deaths" shows:

Birth 18 May 1685 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Death 7 July 1738 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

"Cook, Lidiah, born on the 18th of May 1685 of Jacob Cook & Lidiah Cooke his wife". (VRs of Plymouth)

Marriage

"John FAUNCE married Lydiah COOKE Feb. 23, 1710". (VRs of Plymouth)

Death

"FAUNCE, Lydia, first w. John, July 7, 1738, a. 53 y. 1 m. 20 d." (NEHGS)

Burial

Kingston, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

A photo of her gravestone can be viewed at - Lydia Cooke Faunce

Sources

1. ↑ Lee D. van Antwerp, compiler, VRs of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), p. 20
2. ↑ William R. Librarian of the Woburn Public Library Cutter, "Miller, Cook, Clark, Hall, Crosby & Smith," NEHGR Vol. 51 (Jan. 1897):33-34
3. ↑ Lee D. van Antwerp, compiler, VRs of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), p. 89
4. ↑ Lee D. van Antwerp, compiler, VRs of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), p. 3
5. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Kingston, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1911), p. 347

• Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Francis Cooke, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1996 [1st edition], Pages 84, 158-160.
• "Mayflower Births & Deaths"

• Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993, p. 20, Lee D. van Antwerp.

• Vital Records of Kingston, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1911), p. 347.

• Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2013

• Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1911) Page 49.

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