Henry Cooke (abt. 1690 - bef. 1774)

Born about 1690 in Surry, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Clarke) Cooke — married 12 Jan 1718 in Surry, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 25 Jul 1774 before about age 84 in Brunswick, Virginia

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Biography

Henry Cooke was born about 1690 at Surry, Virginia. ^[1]

Birth date can be estimated reliably only as before 1715 based on daughter Sarah's estimated birth date of before 1732. Henry may have been from the Cook family of Surry County. Best guess is he was born 1698 in Isle of Wight County, son of Henry who died that year (and thus Reuben was his uncle). ^[2]

Henry is the father of Mary Cooke.^[3]

He died after 13 November 1772 at Brunswick County, Virginia.^[4]

Will

Will of Henry Cook of the parish of Meherin and County of Brunswick. Brunswick Co., VA, WB 4, pp. 241-244 w. 30 Nov (1772?) [An abstract gives this date as 13 Nov; the spelling appears to be “thirtieth.”], p. 2_?_ Jul (faded) [An abstract gives the date as 25 Jul 1774. The record immediately preceeding Henry Cook’s will was returned to court and recorded in 1774.]

daughter Sarah (Rieves? Rivers?)
daughter Mary Lanier
daughter Anne (Lound? Lowd?)
son Drury (Drewry?) Cook
son John Cook
daughter (Betty?) Peeples (Peebles?)
grandson Burwell Cook (under 21) son of John Cook
grandson John Cook (under 21); if John dies under age his share is to go to all the children of Drury Cook
grandson Thomas Cook (under 21) son of Henry Cook; if Thomas dies under age his share is to go to Henry Cook’s granddaughters Mary Cook and (faded) Cook daughters of my said Henry Cook Deceased.
grandson (Sterling?) (faded) [An abstract gives this name as Sterling Cato.]
wife Elizabeth Cook
Exr: son in law David Peeples (Peebles?)
Wit: Wm (Edwards?), Wm Vaughan, Henry (faded), _?_ _?_

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-2125745987 Note: Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network
2. ↑ 4 Feb 2019 06:17: [Living Anonymous] edited the Biography, Birth Place and Death Place for Henry Cooke (bef.1715-aft.1772).
3. ↑ #Ingersoll Page 334.
4. ↑ Source: #S-2125745987 Note: Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network

• #Ingersoll: Ingersoll, Louise. Lanier, Goetz Printing Company, Washington, 1965. Free on DCMS
• Source: S-2125745987 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.
• James Rives Childs, Reliques of the Rives (Ryves) (c) 1929 James R. Childs, pub. by J. P. Bell Co., Lynchburg, Va. Facsimile reprint publ. 1994 by Heritage Books, Bowie, Md. Vol. 1 p. 1-344, Vol. 2 p. 345-750, p. 289.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Scott Ledbetter for creating WikiTree profile Cooke-1995 through the import of Ledbetter01.ged on Jun 8, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Scott and others.

2 Nov 2015 - [Living Anonymous] created Henry Cooke (bef.1715-aft.1772) (Cooke-3204).