Caleb³ Cooke Grave on Burial Hill, Plymouth The Mayflower II at Plymouth Harbor Jacob³ Coooke Headstone at Kingston, Massachusetts Martha³ (Cooke) Cushman at Ye Olde Burial Grounds, Plympton, Massachusetts



The Cooke Family

As Found at Kingston, Plympton & Burial Hill, Plymouth


The Cooke Family of Plymouth County are in most part descendant from Francis Cooke of The Mayflower who arrived on that first Pilgrim ship with his son John in 1620. Francis' wife Hester Mahieu Cooke and John's siblings Jane, Hester, and Jacob arrived on the Anne in 1623. Representatives of the Francis and Hester Cooke family, as found buried in Plymouth County towns today, are few; although I have found three of Francis' grandchildren's graves (pictures above) and a few more of these grand-children's families. This is speaking only of those of the Cooke surname, of course. Francis Cooke had his home at Rocky Nook on the Kingston shore at the time of his death in 1633 and there are approximately 50 graves of Cooke named descendants found at Kingston's Universalist Church cemetery, also called Kingston's Ancient Burial Grounds. (See Link of Transcriptions of Kingston graves below). Otherwise the descendants are certainly as numerous as any other family of Plymouth Colony. Martha (Cooke) Cushman, one of our own three Cooke line carriers, has probably as many identified descendants as any, but as I say they carry the Cushman name. There are also numerous Wright family descendants found in Plymouth County, many of these found at Plympton's Old Burial Grounds which can be viewed here: The Wright Family of Plympton, Mass. The Wright family come through daughter Hester's marriage to Richard Wright. We also find, particularly in Middleboro, many Tomson families, descendant of the youngest daughter Mary, born after arrival at Plymouth Colony. John Cooke who came on the Mayflower with his father, being the eldest son, removed to Dartmouth at some point and had five daughters. There are therefore many Hathaway, Taber, Washburn and West et al. descendants of these daughters found spread across the southeastern parts of Massachusetts.

Francis and Hester's son Jacob lived at Rocky Nook also, with land on the south side of Smelt Brook. Jacob's son Jacob's grave is till to be found at the Kingston Burial Grounds and the gravestone is pictures on this page. Our great-grandmother Lillian Maude (Phinney) Sampson descends, on her mother Sarah Antoinette Holmes' side, from both Francis and Hester Cooke's son Jacob, who married Damaris Hopkins, thus also a Hopkins Mayflower lineage, and their daughter Hester Cooke who married Richard Wright. Sarah Holmes married Ezra Phinney who is a Rogers in the Phinney line and a Bradford, Brewster through his mother Betsey Bradford. This Holmes line descends from the "Messenger of the Plymouth Court" (read that as "The Executioner of Plymouth Colony") John Holmes (See Stratton, NGSQ 74:2 (June 1986)). There is also a Chilton line to be found here as John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow's daughter, Susannah, married Robert Latham, and it was their daughter Elizabeth Latham who married Francis� (Jacob�, Francis�) Cooke. Elizabeth's son Francis4 Cooke drowned in Plymouth Harbor in 1724 at the age of 28, but he did leave two daughters, Ruth and Susannah. Ruth Cooke married Josiah Holmes. These Cooke and Holmes families lived in Kingston, and later Plympton. I have found Elizabeth (Latham) Cooke, son Francis and his daughter Ruth (Cooke) Holmes, all buried at the Old Congregational Cemetery in Kingston:
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Our great-great Sampson grandmother, Rebecca (Churchill) Sampson, wife of Henry Sampson (1831-1922) descends from Martha� Cooke and Elkanah Cushman.
See Our "Cooke--Hopkins & Soule Family Tree" Tree here.

Francis4 Cooke as Found at Kingston





The Francis Cooke Society Webpage


Francis Cooke of The Mayflower


Kingston Ancient Burial Grounds Burial Transcriptions


Caleb Johnson's "Mayflower History" Pages Biographical Summary on Francis Cooke


Caleb Johnson's "Mayflower History" Pages Biographical Summary on John Cooke


Pilgrim Hall's account of Francis Cooke Including his Will and Inventory








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