Historical records matching Unknown Father of Francis "Mayflower" Cooke
Immediate Family
About Unknown Father of Francis "Mayflower" Cooke
Reported to be "Edward Cooke" but unsupported. EH 16 June 2011.
As of November 2011 there is insufficient evidence to support Edward Cooke and Alice Canton as the parents of Francis Cooke, "Mayflower" passenger.
Unknown father of Francis; but not Edward Cooke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cooke
"Author Charles Edward Banks points out that there is at Biddenden, Kent a baptismal record for a child named Francis, a son of Thomas Cooke, dated April 6, 1572. Added to that, there was a considerable Walloon, or French–Belgian, colony in nearby Canterbury (Kent). Banks also speculates that he could have been born in England of foreign parents, who then returned to Holland before April of 1603, when Francis Cooke is recorded witnessing a betrothal in Leiden, Holland. This was six years before the arrival in Leiden of Pastor John Robinson's Pilgrims, who would later be passengers on the Mayflower's voyage to America."
References
- 1. Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in 1623 (Baltimore, MD.:Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006) p. 48.
Unknown Father of Francis "Mayflower" Cooke's Timeline
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Perhaps near (operative description), Canterbury, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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