'Cooke03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Cooke of Camerton, Cooke of Harefield, Cooke of London, Cooke of Peak
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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, 'Major General', 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. Maria 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

 

 

Ralph Cooke, 1st of Camerton, Cumberland (d 31.08.1719)
1. Richard Cooke of Camerton (b 17.09.1702, d 19.04.1765)
  m. (11.1731) Elizabeth Stanley (dau of John Stanley of Dalegarth & Ponsonby)
  A. Ralph Cooke of Camerton (d 03.06.1795)
  m. (07.1778) Frances Dawson (dau of George Dawson of Unthank)
  i. Ralph Cooke of Camerton (b 03.07.1780, d 29.01.1860) had issue
  m. (08.04.1806) Catherine Senhouse (dau of Humphrey Senhouse of Hames Hall)
  ii. George Cooke (b 07.03.1782, d 20.12.1813, Brigade Major) had issue (1 dau)
  m. Mary Corden (dau of John Corden of St. Croix)
  iii.+ other issue - Richard (b 25.04.1787, d unm 19.06.1858), Elizabeth (d infant)
  B. Dorothy Cooke
  m. William Thomas Addison (rector of Workington)
2. Elizabeth Cooke (d 06.12.1738)
  m. (14.10.1736) Curwen Huddlestone (rector of Clifton, son of Andrew (sb Wilfrid?) of Hutton John)

 

 

Sir Thomas Cooke of Hackney, Middlesex (a 1692, Governor of the East India Company, alderman of London)
m. Elizabeth Horne (dau of William Horne)
1. John Cooke
  m. _ Carr of Northumberland
  A. John Cooke of Peak (Yorkshire) & London
  m. Catherine Cooke (dau/coheir of Sir George Cooke of Wheatley, Bart)
  i. John Cooke of Maltby (Yorkshire) & London (d 04.1827)
  m. Harriet Cooke (dau of Sir George Cooke of Wheatley, Bart)
a. Charlotte Cooke
  m. Rev. Jonathan Trebeck of Wath
  b.+ other issue - Harriet, Louisa, Mary Anne
  ii. Sunderland Cooke of Peak (b 11.1758, a 1845?, d unm?)
  iii. George Cooke (b 04.02.1760, rector of Sprotborough)
  m. Anne Burward (dau of Jonathan Burward of Woodbridge)
  a.+ issue - George (d unm), Anne
  iv.+ other issue (d unm) - Charles, Henry, Catherine, Harriet
2. Elizabeth Cooke
  m. Sir Josiah Child of Wanstead, 2nd Bart (dsp 20.01.1703-4)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 28.01.07) : BLG1886 (Vernon of Harefield)
(2) For middle section (uploaded 15.06.13) : BLG1886 (Cooke of Camerton)
(3) For lower section (uploaded 15.06.13) Commoners (vol 2, Cooke of Peak, p266)
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