'Cooke02'
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Families covered: Cooke of Chigwell, Cooke of Giddey (Giddea) Hall, Cooke of Highnam

Visitation (Essex, 1558) identifies the father of Mayor Thomas as John Cooke but Berry's Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees identifies him as ...
Robert Cooke of Lavenham
1. Sir Thomas Cooke of Giddey Hall, Lord Mayor of London (a 1463)
  m. _ Malpas (dau of Philip Malpas of London by _ Machyn)
A. Sir Philip Cooke of Giddey Hall
  m. Elizabeth Belknap (dau of Sir Henry Belknap)
  i. Sir John Cooke of Essex
  m. Alice Saunders (dau of William Saunders of Banbury)
a. Sir Anthony Cooke of Giddey or Gidea Hall
  m. Anne Fitzwilliam (dau of Sir William Fitzwilliams of Gainsparke)
  (1) Richard Cooke of Giddey Hall this generation in Visitation (Essex, 1634) but not Visitation (Essex, 1558)
  m. Anne Caunton
  (A) Sir Anthony Cooke of Giddey Hall
  m. Alice Waldegrave (dau of Sir William Waldegrave of Suffolk)
  (i) Sir Edward Cooke of Giddey Hall
  m. Martha Daniell (dau of Sir William Daniell, judge)
  (a) Charles Cooke of Giddey Hall (dsp by 1634)
  (b) Anne Cooke
  m. Sir Edward Sydenham
(c) Vere Cooke (bpt 04.07.1612)
  m. (before 1636) Sir Charles Gawdye of Crowes Hall
  (ii) Sir Hercules Francis Cooke (a 1634, judge)
  m. Anne Beresford
  (iii) William Cooke
(iv) Penelope Cooke
  m. Sir Robert Cock
  (2) Edward Cooke ('2nd son') probably of this generation but not mentioned by Visitation
  (A) Ann Cooke
  m. Ely Walwyn of Hellens (bur 07.07.1616)
  (3) Sir William Cooke of Highnam, Gloucestershire
  m. Frances Grey (dau of John, Lord Gray, sister of Henry of Pirgo)
(A) Sir William Cooke of Highnam (d 1618)
  Visitation (Essex, 1558) merely shows William as son and heir of Sir William by Frances Gray and ends with this generation. It is presumed that he is the Sir William shown at the top of Visitation (Gloucestershire, 1623, Cooke) which reports his wife and children as follows.
  m. Luce or Joyce Lucey (dau of Sir Thomas Lucey of Charlecott)
  (i) Sir Robert Cooke of Highnam
  m1. Dorothy Fleetwood (dau of Sir Myles Fleetwood of Aldwinckle)
Visitation (Gloucestershire) ends with this generation. Robert & Dorothy were possibly parents of ...
  (a) Sir William Cooke of Highnam probably of this generation
  m. Radigan Boscawen (dau of Nicholas Boscawen) wife of William, possibly mother of ...
  ((1)) Edward Cooke of Highnam Court father of Margaret, possibly of this generation
((A)) Edward Cooke of Highnam father of Mary, probably of this generation
  ((i)) Denis Cooke of Highnam (dsp?) probably of this generation
  m. Theodosia Guise (dau of William Guise of Winterborne)
  ((ii)) Mary Cooke, heiress of Highnam (d 21.08.1750)
  m. Henry Guise of Upton St. Leonards (d 23.10.1749)
  ((B)) Margaret Cooke (bur 30.10.1730)
  m1. John Arnold (MP)
  m2. (sp?) John Dutton Colt (bpt 16.03.1642-3, bur 04.05.1722)
(b) Dorothy Cooke apparently of this generation
  m. Richard Cocks (dvp 1669)
  Commoners (vol IV, Frewen of Brickwall) mentions the following Jane as "sole daughter and heir of Sir Robert Cooke, of Highnam, in the county of Gloucester, by his second wife" ....
  m2. Jane (relict of George Herbert)
  (c) Jane Cooke (b 1647-8, d 20.06.1718)
  m1. Sir Dawes Wymondsold or Wymondsell of Putney
  ((1)) Jane Wymondsell apparently of this generation
  m. Sir Walter Clarges, 1st Bart (d 03.1705-6)
  m2. (sp) Thomas Frewen of Brickwall (bpt 27.09.1630, d 08.09.1702)
  (ii) Elizabeth Cooke
  m. John Scudamore of Kenchurch (d 1669)
(iii) Mildred Cooke presumably the Mildred who married ...
  m. Grevill Maxey (a 1634)
  (iv)+ other issue - William (dsp), Thomas, Frances, Dorothy, Anne
  (B)+ other issue - John, Edward, Francis, Anne, Mildred
  One of the daughters appears to have married ...
  m. Sir Henry Maxey of Bradwell (dsp)
(4) Mildred Cooke (d 1589)
  m. (1546) William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley, Secretary of State (b 1520/1, d 04.08.1598)
  (5) Anne Cooke
  m. Sir Nicholas Bacon (b 1510, d 1578-9)
(6) Elizabeth Cooke (d 23.07.1584)
  m1. Sir Thomas Hobbes or Hoby (d 1566)
  m2. (12.12.1574) John Russell, Lord Russell (dvp 1584)
  (7) Katheren Cooke
  m. Sir Henry Killigrew of Laroch, Cornwall
Visitation (Essex, 1558) reports a daughter of this marriage, Mary, who married Henry Nevell then John Trelawnye. From cross-references elsewhere (in this database, Visitation (Cornwall, 1620), and various web sites) it appears that they had 4 daughters as follows:
  (A) Anne Killigrew
  m. Sir Henry Neville of Billingbere (d 1615)
  (B) Elizabeth Killigrew
  m. Sir John Trelawny of Trelawny (d 1604)
  (C) Dorothy Killigrew (bur 30.06.1643)
  m. (15.12.1600) Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Bart of Berry Pomeroy (d 05.10.1659)
  (D) Mary Killigrew
  m. Sir Reginald Mohun, Bart of Boconnoc (d 26.12.1639)
  b. Beatrix Cooke
  m. Richard Ogle
  ii. Beatrix Cooke
  m. (William) Copley
  a. Mary Copley
  m. Nicholas Dawson
  (1) Anne Dawson
  m. Sir Michael Stanhope (d 1587)
  B. William Cooke of Chigwell
  The following comes from Berry's Essex Pedigrees (1878, Cooke).
  m. _ Webb (dau of William Webb of Stanford)
  i. Thomas Cooke of Chigwell
  a. Tristram Cooke of Chigwell had issue
  ii. Richard Cooke (dsp)
  iii. Robert Cooke of London
  m1. ??
  a. Andrew Cooke of Whitechapel
  m2. Ann Salman (dau of John Salman of Easter)
  b. Edward Cooke of London
  m. Alice Stamford (dau of Sir William Stamford of Pury Hall)
  (1) Richard Cooke of Whitechapel
 

m. Elizabeth Greves (dau of John Greves of Hertfordshire)

  (A)+ issue - Edward, Constance, Elizabeth
  C. Thomas Cooke

Main source(s): Visitation (Essex, 1558+1634, Cooke)
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