Elizabeth Cooke

Research notes

• Was she related to Nazareth Cushing & Henry Pitcher, ‘the elder’?
• How is she related to the people in the will? She is said not to have had children.

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Will John Cooke, of Sprowston (1650)

Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 1. By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters. Page 766. < GoogleBooks > Grey, 173.

• John Cooke of Sprowston, Norfolk, yeoman, 29 January 1650, proved 13 November 1054.
• To my wife Elizabeth all my houses and lands in Norwich, which I bought of Erasmus Alesson, clerk, lying and being in the parish of St. George, Colgate; also two closes in Burston for her natural life.
• To Dorothy wife of Edward Potts of Cambridge all my houses &c. after the decease of my wife Elizabeth, subject to certain legacies.
• To Elizabeth Parlet wife James Parlitte of Hingham ten pounds,
• to Anne the wife of Edmund Pitts in New England, if she come to demand it, ten pounds,
• to Mary Pitcher daughter of Isaac Pitcher the elder, of Hingham, ten pounds and
• to Sarah (another daughter) ten pounds.
• To Isaac Jyssoppe (Jessopp ?) son of Thomas Jyssoppe the elder my two closes in Burston he to pay to his brother's four eldest children five pounds apiece at eighteen years of age.
• Wife Elizabeth executrix.

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Research notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-842

Nov. 1654 Probate of will of John Cooke, of Sprowston of Sprowston, Norfolk, John bequeathed tenn pounds to Ann, wife of Edmund Pitts in New England. But does not indicate relationship. Appears John and his wife did not have any children.

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_352.html#P189

On 5 Aug 1613 Matthew Cushing married Nazareth Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher (-Aug 1622) & Elizabeth [Pitcher] (-May 1618), in Hingham, Norfolk.25 Born ca Oct 1586 in Hardingham, Norfolk. Nazareth was baptized in Hardingham, Norfolk, on 30 Oct 1586.2 Nazareth died in Hingham, MA 5 Jan 1681/2.45

25. Joseph Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Little Brown, Boston, 1860, http://archive.org/details/agenealogicaldi00unkngoog.

Seen at FamilySearch: cannot find a relationship between Henry Pitcher of Hingham, Norfolk and the Pitcher family of Docking, Norfolk.

References

• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 < AncestryImage >; < AncestrySharing > “Name Eliz Cooke Event Type Burial Death Date 1684 Burial Date 3 Jul 1684 Burial Place Norwich, St Stephen, Norfolk, England.”