'Cooke03'
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Families covered: Cooke of Harefield

BLG1886 starts its entry on this family with "This family, supposed to derive from that of Coke, Earls of Leicester, became seated at Harefield in 1700."
John Cooke of Cranbrook (Kent) and the Inner Temple (d 1711)
m. _ Warren of Cheshire
1. Sir George Cooke of Harefield (Middlesex) and the Inner Temple (b 1675, d 1740, Chief Prothonotary, youngest son)
  m. (1700) Anne Jennings (b 1681, d 1736, dau of Edward Jennings of the Inner Temple)
  A. George Cooke of Harefield (b 1709, d 1768, Chief Prothonotary, MP)
  m. (1735) Catherine Twysden (d 1765, dau of Sir Thomas Twysden, Bart, by Catherine Withens)
i. George John Cooke of Harefield Park (b 1736, d 1785, MP)
  m. (05.08.1765) Penelope Bowyer (dau of Sir William Bowyer, Bart, she m2. Maj. Gen. Smith)
  a. Sir George Cooke of Harefield Park (b 1766, d 03.02.1837, Lt. General)
  b. Sir Henry Frederick Cooke, later of Harefield Park (dsp 10.03.1837, 3rd son)
  m. (1834) Katherine Windham (dau of Admiral Windham of Felbrigg, she m2. Robert Hook)
  c. Kitty Cooke
  m1. _ Bond
  m2. _ Trebreck
d. Penelope Anne Cooke (b c1770, d 02.02.1826)
  m. (08.03.1794) Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan (b 25.04.1769, d 14.08.1837)
  e. Cooke (d 03.10.1827)
  m. (28.02.1804) Henry Charles Edward Vernon of Harefield Park, later Vernon-Graham of Hilton Park (b 1779, d 1861)
  f.+ other issue - Edward (b c1772, dsp 1799, RN), Eliza (d unm 01.05.1837)
  ii. Charles Cooke, later Molloy (d 1805, 4th son)
  m. Catherine Muir (dau of Hutchinson Muir of Suffolk)
  a. Mary Molloy
  m. Rev. William Jones of Chalfont St. Giles
  iii.+ other issue - Thomas (d 1772), William of the Inner Temple, 3 sons
  B. Anne Cooke probably of this generation
  m. William East of Hall Place (d 1737)
2.+ 11 others

Main source(s): BLG1886 (Vernon of Harefield)
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