Hester Wright

Descendant of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke

vi HESTER, b. say 1620; m. Plymouth in 1644 Richard Wright [ PCR 2:79; see also TAG 59:165-70].

Hester Cooke was born bef bef Apr 1621 probably in Leyden, Holland and died in prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, bef 21 May 1669; she was 41. She emigrated to Plymouth Colony on the ship Anne which arrived in Plymouth Colony in July 1623.

Parents: Francis Cooke, "Mayflower" Passenger. He was born probably in England about 1582 and died in 1633 in Plymouth Colony; and Hester Mahieu, born between betw 1582 and 1588.

Married:

1. On 21 Nov 1644 when Hester was 17, she married Richard Wright, in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Born ca 1608 in of Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA. Richard died in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, on 9 Jun 1691; he was 83.

They had the following children:

1. Adam (ca1645-1724). He married, 1st Sarah3 Soule (John2, George1); married, 2d, Mehitable Barrows.
2. Esther (1649-1717). She married Ephraim Tinkham3 (Mary2 Brown, Peter1).
3. Isaac. Born on 26 Aug 1652 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Isaac died bef 7 Jun 1676; he was 23 and died without issue.
4. Mary (ca1654->1711). She married----Price. (Hugh)
5. John. Born bef 1656 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. John died bef 7 Jun 1676; he was 20 and died without issue.
6. Samuel. Born in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Samuel died bef 7 Jun 1676 and died without issue.

Notes

• Religion: Separatist.

Links

• http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/francis_cooke_family.htm
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/cooke.html#P883

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From the Find A Grave page for Hester Cooke Wright:

• Hester Cooke Wright Find A Grave Memorial# 55342737
• Burial Hill , Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Plot: NO GRAVESTONE
• Birth: 1622 - Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Jun. 8, 1666 - Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Hester was a daughter of Francis Cooke & Hester Mahieu.

She was married on 21 Nov 1644 at Plymouth, Massachusetts to Richard Wright.

They had:

1. Adam
2. Esther
3. Isaac
4. John
5. Mary
6. Samuel Family links:

• Parents:
• Francis Cooke (1583 - 1663)
• Hester Mahieu Cooke (1582 - 1666)

Children:

1. Adam Wright (1645 - 1724)
2. Esther Wright Tinkham (1652 - 1717)
3. Isaac Wright (1652 - 1676)
4. John Wright (1656 - 1675)
5. Samuel Wright (1661 - 1679)
6. Mary Wright (1667 - 1748)

Spouse:

• Richard Wright (1619 - 1691)*

Burial: Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

• Plot: no gravestone

Created by: Tim & Grace

• Record added: Jul 23, 2010
• Find A Grave Memorial# 55342737

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• http://www.allaboutnhre.com/familytree/franciscooke.html See also:
• http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/richard-wright-and... which cites Robert S. Wakefield, "Richard Wright of Plymouth, MA" in The American Genealogist, vol 59 (1983), page 165

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-97
Hester (Cooke) Wright (1620 - bef. 1691)

Hester Wright formerly Cooke
Born 1620 in Leiden, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlandenmap [uncertain]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Francis Cooke and Hester (Mahieu) Cooke
Sister of Jane (Cooke) Mitchell, Jean Cooke, Unnamed Infant Cooke, Elizabeth Cooke, Jacob Cooke and Mary (Cooke) Tomson
Wife of Richard Wright — married 21 Nov 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colonymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Adam Wright, John Wright, Hester (Wright) Tinkham, Isack Wright and Mary (Wright) Price
Died before 1691 before age 71 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Hester was born about 1620 in Leiden and died between 1669 and 1691. She married Richard Wright in Plymouth in 1644 and had six children. She was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Mass.[1][2] Estimates of her date of birth:

born about 1620 in Leiden
bef 1621, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.[3]
BET 1624 and 1627 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA[3]
Before land division on 22 May 1627[4]
She was one of the three children for which Francis received an acre land in 1623, and therefore conceived before Francis left on the Mayflower in 1620.[3]

This source does not explicitly allocate this land to Hester, as is implied by this abstract, only to the part of the family that came on the Anne. It cites PCR 12:4-5, which only notes that the grants are made to Francis Cooke, 2 acres from being on the Mayflower, 4 acres for those who came on the Anne. However, this source does show a birth of Mary in "say 1620", but with no source cited, so it is not clear what this estimate is based on. The qualifier "say" usually indicates situations where a child is inserted in a likely gap between other siblings. Elizabeth is shown being born but no death or any further information. In sum, this site does not seem to have any real evidence to show whether Elizabeth or Hester was the third child on the Anne.[5]
Ralph Wood, in Mayflower Families Through Five Generations suggests that Francis' daughter Elizabeth made the trip to New England before dying. (John came with Francis in 1620, 3 children with Francis' wife Hester on the Anne in 1623: Jane, Jacob and either Elizabeth or Hester.)[6] Birth dates of 1620 for Hester must postulate that Elizabeth died before coming to New England, so Hester was born before Francis came. However, Richard and Hester Wright appear to have shared in a grant of land to children born in Plymouth (and were sued by Family:John Tomson and Mary Cooke to share in it,[7] suggesting she was born after coming to New England, and consequently that Elizabeth was one of the 3 children on the Anne. Next child, Mary, based on age at death, born Mar 1626 to Mar 1627. So Hester born after May 1624 (9 months after the family reunited) and before Jun 1625 (to clear the stage for Mary). Hester married in 1644, and since legal age for women is 18, she was born by 1626, which is easily satisfied either way.[3]

Hester Cooke Wright died between 1669 and 1691.[1][2][3]

Some (who?) say she d. 8 Jun 1666 in Plymouth[citation needed]
21 MAY 1669 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA.
Richard Wright married Hester Cooke on 21 November 1644.[1][8]

They had the following children:[9]

Esther Wright
Mary Wright
John Wright
Isaac Wright
Adam Wright
She died after 8 Jun 1666 when she signed an agreement of heirs of her father's estate, and "probably" bef. 7 Dec 1675, the date of her son's will[3] and was buried at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Mass.[1]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cooke
↑ 2.0 2.1 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995: "Francis Cooke"
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hester_Cooke_%281%29
↑ Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Increasings for Three Generations. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1989).
↑ JRich (WeRelate user)
↑ See also: Pilgrim Hall Museum
↑ Plymouth Colony Records. 4:54
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "Francis Cooke"
↑ "Richard and Hester Wright's Children", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant, 24:84.
See also:

George Ernest Bowman, "The Mayflower Marriage Records at Leyden and Amsterdam," The Mayflower Descendant (Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants)
Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, Revised Edition,2011 a/k/a "The Silver Book"
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Knopf, 1991), p. 442, 446.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., (Boston 1855-1861), Vol 8, p. 23
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England: Deeds, &c., 1620-1651. Book of Indian records for their lands. New Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. General Court. Press of W. White, 1861. Google eBook
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