Difference between revisions of "Cooke (Y-DNA)"

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Status summary

As of January 16, 2017:

• Y Elite test results for Francis Cooke descendant (kit 4DT9H, tested previously as kit #468236)

As of July 11, 2020:

• Two additional Big Y-700 test results for Francis Cooke descendant

Y-DNA Descendants

First Generation

Not much is known about the origins of Francis Cooke. He is believed to have been born about 1583^[1] He registered his Banns to marry Hester Mahieu in Leiden on 4 Jul 1603.^[2] The family is generally believed to have lived in Leiden until they emigrated aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Francis and his wife continued to live in Plymouth until their deaths. He died there on 7 Apr 1663.^[3]

Francis and Hester had an infant (sex unknown) who was buried at Leiden on 20 May 1608^[4] then had two sons and four daughters. The sons were John and Jacob. John married Sarah Warren (daughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren) they only had five daughters.^[5] Thus, the Y-DNA line only continues from Jacob.

Second Generation

Jacob Cooke was born in Leiden about 1617. He came over with his mother and other siblings on the Ann in 1623. Jacob married twice. His first wife was Damaris Hopkins^[6] married Plymouth shortly after 10 Jun 1646.^[7] She died^[8]and he married second, 18 Nov 1669 to Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff.^[9] By his second wife, he only had one daughter^[10] but by his first wife he had four daughters and three sons (Caleb, Jacob II, Francis).

Third Generation

(Capt.) Caleb Cooke (1651-1721/2) married Jane (surname unknown) and lived at Plymouth. They had five daughters and 4 sons (John, Caleb, James & Joseph). Son Caleb died s.p. shortly after marrying, and the Y-DNA line for son Joseph ended, so Y-DNA only continued with sons John and James.

Jacob Cooke (1653-1747) married Lydia Miller. They lived in the area of Plymouth which became the new town of Kingston in Jun 1726. They had 4 daughters and 4 sons (William, Jacob, Josiah & John).

Francis Cooke (1662-c1746) married Elizabeth Latham. They also lived in the area of Plymouth which later became Kingston. They had 3 daughters and 3 sons (Robert, Caleb & Francis). The son Francis only had two daughters, so the Y-DNA only continued with sons Robert & Caleb.

1. ↑ married in 1603 yet listed on the Able to Bear Arms list of 1643 (supposedly aged 60 or less)
2. ↑ https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/pilgrim-leiden-pilgrim-records/?fbclid=IwAR2z9tDZHRxYx8l1bmhBCDBoQbmdALU4QZt0Ltc8IZSlvplZfsr-AkdAM_Q NOTE: Leyden was using the New Style dating at this time.
3. ↑ PCR 8:23 as reported in Mayflower Descendants 3:95
4. ↑ NEHGReg 143:197 citing Leiden records
5. ↑ Sarah, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary & Mercy
6. ↑ daughter of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins by his second wife, Elizabeth Fisher
7. ↑ Marriage contract. See Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 2, p. 27-28.
8. ↑ Her last child, Ruth, was born 17 Jan 1665 (MD 18:57), so she died sometime between this birth and her widow's second mariage on 18 Nov 1669.
9. ↑ widow of William Shurtleff
10. ↑ Sarah

DNA Results FGC57464

Previous Y-DNA testing

Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Society^[1] and the Cook surname DNA project^[2] has indicated that the Mayflower Cooke lineage belongs to the I-M223 Y-DNA haplogroup. Y Elite and Big Y-700 testing documents the family falls under: I-M223>CTS616>FGC15071>BY1003>L1229>Z2069>Z2068>Z2054>Y4746>FGC15109>FGC15105>BY18>Y4761>Y4760>FGC57449>FGC57463>FGC57458>FGC57464

Interestingly, the FTDNA Cook DNA Project (sub-group I2 - Lineage 3b Cooke of Gloucester, VA) has tested positive for FGC57458 but negative for FGC57464. This documents where the Cooke family from Gloucester, VA is related to Francis Cooke's paternal ancestry. The founder of this Cooke family was Mordecai Cooke, born circa 1623. Some have claimed paternal ancestry for this family back to the 14th Century, but this claim still needs to be verified.

1. ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mayflowersociety/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
2. ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/public/cook?iframe=ycolorized (Lineage 3a)

Data downloads

• 4DT9H Y Elite

Lineage of testers

To date, one of the Big Y-700 testers has revealed their line of descent from Francis Cooke. It is as follows:

 Francis Cooke (c1583-1663)
   Jacob Cooke (c1617-1675)
     Francis Cooke (1662-c1740)
       (Lt.) Caleb Cooke (c1694-1762)
         (Capt.) Ephraim Cooke (1737-1821)
           (Capt.) Manasseh Cook (1766-1855)
             Joseph Cook (1790-1861)
               George A. Cook (1813-1894)
                 Charles W. Cook (1854-1927)
                   James Herbert Cook (1890-1969)
                     (father)
                       (tester)

References and External links

• Woods, Ralph V. (with 2017 addendum by Susan E. Roser and Judith H. Swan), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 6 Cooke General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. Third Edition 2001
• Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References, (from contemporary records & scholarly journals) [www.stewartbooks.com Stewart Publishing & Printing], Canada. Second edition 2015
• Bowman, George Ernest, The Mayflower Descendant vol. 3 (1901):95-105
• Underhill, Lora A.W., Descendants of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry rev. ed. 3 vol. (Boston and New York, 1934), pp. 601-45
• Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143(1989):195-212 "The Pilgrims and Other English in Leiden Records: Some New Pilgrim Documents"
• Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis, The Mayflower Quarterly 78(2012):140-44 "Looking for Hester Mayhew and Francis Cooke in the Norwich City Records Office"

• Cook Y-DNA Project
• Wikipedia biography of Francis Cooke
• Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History biography of Francis Cooke
• Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society
• Pilgrim Hall Museum article about documents pertaining to Francis & Hester Cooke