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Paternal Family Tree: Cooke
In 1467 Thomas Cooke commissioned the building of Gidea Hall, Essex [Map]. It was completed by his descendant Anthony Cooke.
In or before 1504 [his father] John Cooke of Gidea Hall and [his mother] Alice Saunders were married.
In 1504 Anthony Cooke was born to John Cooke of Gidea Hall and Alice Saunders.
In 1510 [his mother] Alice Saunders died.
On 10th October 1516 [his father] John Cooke of Gidea Hall died.
Before 1523 Anthony Cooke (age 18) and Anne Fitzwilliam (age 18) were married.
In 1526 [his daughter] Mildred Cooke Baroness Burghley was born to Anthony Cooke (age 22) and [his wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 22).
In 1527 [his daughter] Elizabeth Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke (age 23) and [his wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 23).
In 1527, or 1528, [his daughter] Anne Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke (age 23) and [his wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 23).
Around 1530 [his son] Richard Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke (age 26) and [his wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 26).
Around 1535 [his son] Anthony Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke (age 31) and [his wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 31).
In 1545 Anthony Cooke (age 41) was appointed High Sheriff of Essex.
On 21st December 1546 [his son-in-law] William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 26) and [his daughter] Mildred Cooke Baroness Burghley (age 20) were married.
On 22nd February 1547 Thomas Fitzherbert (age 33) was knighted. Anthony Cooke (age 43) was created Knight of the Bath.
On 8th November 1547 Anthony Cooke (age 43) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1553 [his son-in-law] Nicholas Bacon (age 42) and [his daughter] Anne Cooke (age 26) were married.
On 27th July 1553 Anthony Cooke (age 49) was committed to the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in Lady Jane Grey's movement.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 27th June 1558 [his son-in-law] Ralph Rowlett of London and St Albans (age 45) and [his daughter] Margaret Cooke were married.
On 27th June 1558 [his son-in-law] Thomas Hoby (age 28) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Cooke (age 31) were married.
On 3rd August 1558 [his daughter] Margaret Cooke died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 3rd August 1558. [The iij day of August was buried the [his daughter] lady Rowlett], wyff of ser [his son-in-law] Raffe Rowlett (age 45) knyght, in [saint] Mare Staynnynges, with ij goodly whyt branchys, (blank) stayff torchys, and iiij gylt candyllstykes, and iiij grett tapurs, with ij haroldes of armes, and iiij baners of saints; (blank) was cheyffe morner, and mony .... The cherche and the raylles hangyd with blake, and the street and the plasse hangyd with armes and blake, and ij song masses and a sermon, and after masse to the [place] to dener, for ther was a grett dener for vene[son, fresh] solmon, and fres sturgean, and with mony dysse (of) fy[sh.] ...
Note. Ibid. Funeral of lady Rowlett. Sir Ralph buried two wives within seven months (see before, p. 362). The second was one of the daughters of sir Anthony Cooke (age 54), and the circumstances of the marriage are thus mentioned in the Diary of sir [his son-in-law] Thomas Hoby (age 28): "Monday June 27, 1558, a mariage was made and solemnised between me and Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of sir Anthony Cooke knt. The same day was also her sister Margaret the queen's maid maried to sir Rauf Rowlet knt. who (i. e. the lady) shortly after departed out of this lief." (Communicated by the Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke.) "Sir Raff Rowlett had maryed ij. wyves, and dyed withowt issue of ether at his howsse of St. Albons the xixth of Apryll 1571, and was beryed in the parish church of St. Albons by his father the xxixth of May next foloinge." His father, also sir Ralph, had been one of the masters of the mint to Henry VIII.
In or before 1559 [his son] Richard Cooke (age 28) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Caunton (age 32) were married.
On 4th November 1566 [his son-in-law] Henry Killigrew (age 38) and [his daughter] Katherine Cooke were married at St Peter le Poer Church, Broad Street.
On 11th June 1576 Anthony Cooke (age 72) died.
On 5th June 1588 [his former wife] Anne Fitzwilliam (age 84) died.
[his daughter] Margaret Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam.
[his son] William Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam.
[his son] Edward Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
[his daughter] Katherine Cooke was born to Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Cooke of Lavenham in Suffolk
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Cooke
GrandFather: Philip Cooke
Father: John Cooke of Gidea Hall
GrandMother: Elizabeth Belnap
GrandFather: William Saunders of Banbury in Oxfordshire
Mother: Alice Saunders
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Spencer of Hodnell in Warwickshire
GrandMother: Jane Spencer