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The maiden surname of Margaret, wife of William Filley, is not known, nor is her parentage or place of origin, other than the effective certainty that she came from somewhere in England. Her marriage to William in 1642, at Windsor, in Connecticut Colony, suggests that she was probably born close to 1620 (based on the approximate average age of Colonial brides at the time). A Find A Grave memorial page places her birth in 1621, but the source for this claim is not given; nor is the memorial's source for the claim that she died in 1665, and its indication that her maiden surname was Cockney appears to be unfounded.
There were, it is true, various Cockneys in Thorncombe, Dorset, in England at the right time period (see Research Notes below); it is of course possible that this is where Margaret came from, but no known, transcribed documentation exists.
The book History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton from 1642 to 1845 does not give a maiden name for Margaret nor a place of origination. Nor does FindAGrave have any sourcing.
There is no known sourcing for the Cockney surname or location. It is possible that this claim originated with a misinterpretation of the marriage record of a William Filly to a Margerye Cookeney; that couple wed at Thorncombe, Dorset, on 4 August 1607[1]. (The husband may be the William Philly buried at Thorncombe on 13 May 1664[2].)
[Previously included in this profile without indication of a primary source.]
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As shown on that profile, there is no mention of a daughter named Margaret. I agree with the previous posts that Thomas Cokayne and Anne Stanhope should be removed as Margaret's parents. No reason to believe this connection has been provided.
Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p32617.htm#i326163