Martha Cooke
ID# 28321, b. about 1712
Birth:
Martha Cooke was born about 1712
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Martha Cooke was the daughter of John Cooke and Sarah (?)
Martha Cooke was living in 1739; Living when Joshua Cooke's widow Mary wrote her 1739 will.
Mary Cooke
ID# 28322, b. about 1714, d. December 1741
Birth:
Mary Cooke was born about 1714
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Mary Cooke was the daughter of John Cooke and Sarah (?)
Mary Cooke was living in 1739; Living when Joshua Cooke's widow Mary wrote her 1739 will.
Death:
Mary Cooke died in December 1741
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Mary Cooke was buried on 16 December 1741 at Denton, Lancashire, England,
Mary, daughter of John of Haughton.
Unknown Cooke
ID# 28323, b. about 1657
Sons John, Edward & Joseph Cooke are assumed to be siblings based on information in Cooke family wills and the proximity of their death dates.
Birth:
Unknown Cooke was born about 1657
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Marriage:
Unknown Cooke married Unknown (?) about 1678
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Children of Unknown Cooke and Unknown (?)
- Robert Cooke+ b. abt 1676, d. b 1717
- Joshua Cooke+ b. abt 1679, d. abt 1720
- Edward Cooke+ b. abt 1685, d. Jan 1729
- John Cooke+ b. abt 1685, d. Apr 1726
- Thomas Cooke b. abt 1688, d. Dec 1729
Unknown (?)
ID# 28324, b. about 1657
Children of Unknown (?) and Unknown Cooke
- Robert Cooke+ b. abt 1676, d. b 1717
- Joshua Cooke+ b. abt 1679, d. abt 1720
- Edward Cooke+ b. abt 1685, d. Jan 1729
- John Cooke+ b. abt 1685, d. Apr 1726
- Thomas Cooke b. abt 1688, d. Dec 1729
Joshua Cooke
ID# 28325, b. about 1679, d. about 1720
This family has been put together from several Cook(e) family wills, as well as usual bmd sources. -JAD.
Birth:
Joshua Cooke was born about 1679
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Joshua Cooke was the son of Unknown Cooke and Unknown (?)
Marriage:
Joshua Cooke married Mary Leech about 1700
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Joshua Cooke left a will in 1718.
Joshua Cooke's will written in 1717/18, probate in 1725, refers to Edward Cooke of Dukinfield, blacksmith, and named the first 3 of Edward's children - Mary, Betty and Ann.
Mary also named her two brothers in the will giving us her surname.
Mary also named her two brothers in the will giving us her surname.
in 1718 Joshua Cooke lived at Dukinfield, Lancashire, England,
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Death:
Joshua Cooke died about 1720
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Probate was granted on his estate in 1725
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Child of Joshua Cooke and Mary Leech
- Sarah Cooke b. Dec 1711, d. Feb 1712
Mary Leech
ID# 28326, b. about 1685, d. about 1741
Birth:
Mary Leech was born about 1685
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Marriage:
Mary Leech married Joshua Cooke, son of Unknown Cooke and Unknown (?), about 1700
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Mary Leech left a will in 1739.
The 1742 will of Mary, widow of Joshua Cooke, written in 1739, names Mary Siddal, widow, and six children (all with surname Cooke): Joshua, Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ellen.
The will also names Mary Leech's two brothers, John and Samuel Leech, and their children. No dates are known for these two families other than that the named children were alive when she wrote her will in 1738. Mary's two nephews named John - John Leech son of John Leech of Droylsden and John Leech son of Samuel Leech - are both candidates for the 1756 marriage to Anne Dearnely in Ashton-under-Lyne.
see Anne Dearnely.
The will also names Mary Leech's two brothers, John and Samuel Leech, and their children. No dates are known for these two families other than that the named children were alive when she wrote her will in 1738. Mary's two nephews named John - John Leech son of John Leech of Droylsden and John Leech son of Samuel Leech - are both candidates for the 1756 marriage to Anne Dearnely in Ashton-under-Lyne.
see Anne Dearnely.
Death:
Mary Leech died about 1741
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Probate was granted on her estate in 1742
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Child of Mary Leech and Joshua Cooke
- Sarah Cooke b. Dec 1711, d. Feb 1712
Sarah Cooke
ID# 28327, b. December 1711, d. February 1712
Birth:
Sarah Cooke was born in December 1711 at England
Birth date is an estimate.
Sarah Cooke was the daughter of Joshua Cooke and Mary Leech.
Sarah Cooke was baptised on 25 January 1712 at Duckinfield, Lancashire, England,
Private baptism at their home in Duckinfield, with note added to say 'died Feb' (Ancestry).
Death:
Sarah Cooke died in February 1712 at England at age 2 months
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