COOKE Mary

Mary married THOMPSON John on 26 Dec 1645 in Plymouth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bio: Born in or shortly after 1583. Came from Leiden, Holland to Plymouth in 1620 in the
MAYFLOWER. Died in Plymouth 7 April 1663. Married in Leiden 20 Jul 1603[NS] or shortly thereafter
Hester Mahieu; she died after 8 June 1666.Their 7 children: Jane Mitchell, John, a child buried in
Leiden, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hester Wright, & Mary Thomson.Source: Anderson's Pilgrim Migration.Find
A Grave contributor Mary Wiese found this information in an unidentified source:Francis Cooke was
born about 1583. His origins have not been discovered, but it is probable he was born in England,
perhaps from the Canterbury or Norwich areas. He married Hester le Mahieu on 20 July 1603 in
Leiden, Holland; she was a French Walloon whose parents had initially fled to Canterbury, England;
she left for Leiden sometime before 1603. Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu's marriage occurred
in Leiden, Holland six years before the Pilgrim church made its move there, so he was living there
long before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards. His wife Hester was
a French Walloon. What brought Francis to Holland in the first place is unknown: religious
persecution of Protestants in England did not really begin until after King James took power in 1604.
In 1606, the Cookes left Leiden and went to Norwich, Norfolk for a time (for what reason is not
known), but returned to have their first son, John, baptized at the French church in Leiden, sometime
between January and March, 1607. In Holland, Cooke took up the profession of a
woolcomber.Francis, and his oldest son John, came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620.. He left
behind his wife Hester and his other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester. After the Colony
was founded and better established, he sent for his wife and children, and they came to Plymouth in
1623 on the ship Anne.Francis lived out his life in Plymouth. Although he kept a fairly low profile, he
was on a number of minor committees such as the committee to lay out the highways, and received
some minor appointments by the Court to survey or lay out land. He was a juror on a number of
occasions, and was on the coroner's jury that examined the body of Martha Bishop, the 4-year old
daughter who was murdered by her mother Alice. He received some modest land grants at various
times throughout his life. He lived to be about 80 years old, dying in 1663; his wife Hester survived
him by at least three years and perhaps longer.Find A Grave contributor Donna & Wayne Cain add.
without any source: Father: 71581371Mother: 71581828

Died:
Burial: Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Memorial #: 34825341
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34825341/francis-cooke

Francis married MAHIEU Esther on 20 Jul 1603 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Esther (daughter of Le MAHIEU Jacques and LEMAN Jeanne "Jennie") was born in 1582 in Lille, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 08 Jun 1666 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bio: Came to America on the ship Anne in 1623. She was of Walloon (French Protestant) stock but
came to Leyden, Holland from Canterbury, England where there was a Walloon church, in the records
of which the name of Mahieu was common. The marriage intentions state Hester Mahieu was from
Canterbury, England and she was accompanied by her mother, Jennie Mahieu and her sister Jennie
Mahieu. In his book "Hypocrisie Unmasked", Edward Winslow stated she was a "Walloone" and came
from the French "Mayflower Descendant" 27:145 shows she was admitted to the French Reformed
Church in Leiden in 1603. "Take notice of our practie at Leyden, viz. that one Samuel Terry was
received from the French Church there, into communion with us; also the wife of Francis Cooke being
a Walloone, holds communion with the Church at Plymouth , as she came from the French, to this
day, by virtue of communion of churches." [Winslow's "Hypocrisie Unmasked" in "Mayflower
Descendant" 27:64] Daughter of Jacques an d Jenne/Jeanne (___) Mahieu, Walloon refugees from
the area around Lille (now in France). If 19 at marriage and 42 at the birth of her last known child
about late 1626, then Hester was born about 1584 and thus was about two years younger than her
husband. As Hester was about 82 in 1666, it seems likely she died closer to 1666 than to 1675.
Hester Mahie was admited to communion in the Walloon church by confession of faith on June 1,
1603, about a month and a half before her marriage.

Half Siblings:
Marie Mahieu De Lannoy
Maire Le Mahieu DeLannoy 1580-1650

Died:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16220034/hester-cooke

Jacques married LEMAN Jeanne "Jennie". Jeanne was born in 1563; died in 1609. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possible spelling: Laman