Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke (1648 - bef. 1727)

Born Jun 1648 in Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Cooke Jr. — married 27 Jul 1668 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died before 7 Dec 1727 before age 79 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Deborah Hopkins was born in June 1648 in Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony, either at Eastham or Yarmouth (now Eastham and Yarmouth, Massachusetts). (See the Research Note below.) She was the daughter of the Mayflower passenger Giles² Hopkins (Stephen¹), and Katherine (Whelden) Hopkins.^[1][2]

Marriage

Deborah Hopkins married Josiah Cooke at Eastham on 27 Jul 1668.^{[3][4][2][5][6]}

Children

Josiah and Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke recorded the following children, all born at Eastham in Plymouth Colony:^[4]

1. Elizabeth Cooke, born on 12 Oct 1669, died in April 1670
2. Josiah Cooke, born on 12 May 1670
3. Richard Cooke, born on 1 Sep 1672
4. Elizabeth Cooke, born in June 1674
5. Caleb Cooke, born on 15 Nov 1676
6. Deborah Cooke, born on 15 Feb 1678/79
7. Joshua Cooke, born on 4 Feb 1682
8. Benjamin Cooke, born on 18 Feb 1686/87

Death

No record has been found of the death of Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke. The last record of her is the birth of her last known child, at Eastham on 18 Feb 1686/87.^[7] She is not mentioned in her husband's will, made on 7 Dec 1727,^[2] so she had surely died before that date.

Research Note

Deborah Hopkins' birth is recorded at Eastham, but it is not certain whether she was born there or at Yarmouth; the date of her parents' move to Eastham is uncertain, and they may have recorded her birth there after the move. Austin says that Giles Hopkins "was conveyed 100 acres of land by his brother Caleb 28 Oct 1644 and not long thereafter Giles moved to Eastham,"^[8] but he cites no source for the date of the move. The respected New England genealogist John Insley Coddington in a 1966 article in The American Genealogist says that Deborah was "born at Yarmouth or Eastham."^[5] (Bloom-1124 01:04, 14 September 2019 (UTC))

The Hopkins Genealogy^[9] suggests that this couple also had a daughter Martha Cook, who was the wife of Joshua Freeman Grozier. This man, however, was born in Truro on 02 April 1769, and his wife Martha was of a later generation.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records", The Mayflower Descendant, 7:236 (1905).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Volume 6, “Family Stephen Hopkins,” (Second Edition , Plymouth, Mass., 1995), page 30
3. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Eastham & Orleans Vital Records"Mayflower Descendant Vol. 8:88.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records", The Mayflower Descendant, 8:88 (1906) (subscription required)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} John Insley Coddington, "The Widow Mary Ring," The American Genealogist, 42:201 (1966) (subscription required)
6. ↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-9FW7  : 2 October 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 143, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 78.
7. ↑ Birth record of Benjamin Cooke, 18 Feb 1686/87, in "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records", The Mayflower Descendant, 8:88 (1906) (subscription required)
8. ↑ John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Volume 6, “Family Stephen Hopkins,” (Second Edition , Plymouth, Mass., 1995), page 30
9. ↑ Genealogies of Mayflower families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 3 vols., Baltimore, MD, 1985.
10. ↑ John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Pages 9, 25.

See also:

• John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Pages 9, 25.
• The Chrisman Pedigree, website created by Lonnie Chrisman.
• Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Eastham; Births of Josiah and Deborah Cook Children.
• Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and her passengers (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., Caleb Johnson, 2006)
• Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992; Josiah Cooke and Deborah Hopkins Family
• Town records, 1654-1863 [Eastham, Massachusetts], database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-QJ7X : 27 September 2022), , FHL microfilm 007009743, image 331, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Transcribed by order of the Town in 1856 by, H. Doane 2d, Town Clerk, Marriages, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 4.