Bethiah Harding

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Name: Bethiah Cooke

Sex: F

Birth: 1640 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 1

Death: 28 Jan 1739 in (Eastham, Massachusetts) 1

Note: See attached sources. 2 3

Father: Josiah Cooke b: Abt 1610 in Leyden, Zuid-Holland

Mother: Elizabeth Ring

Marriage 1 Joseph Harding b: 1628 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

Married: 4 Apr 1660 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony 4 5

Note:

Bethiah's parents, birth and death year are argued. These seem reasonable to me.

I wonder whether there were 2 or more Bethiah Cooks to cause the confusion and conflation.

"Joseph Harding, m. Bethia Cook, April 4, 1660;

chn.

Martha, b. Dec. 13, 1662;

Mary, b. Aug. 19, 1665;

Joseph, b. July 8, 1667;

Josiah, b. Aug. 15, 1669;

Maziah, b. Nov. 1, 1671;

John, b. Oct 9, 1673, d. June 14, 1697;

Nathaniel, b. Dec. 25, 1674;

Joshua, b. Feb. 15, 1675;

Abiah, b. Jan. 26, 1679; Samuel, b. Sept. 1, 1685 [should be 1683]" 6

Children

Has Children Martha Harding b: 13 Dec 1662 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has No Children Mary Harding b: 19 Aug 1665 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Joseph Harding b: 8 Jul 1667 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Josiah Harding b: 15 Aug 1669 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Amaziah Harding b: 1 Nov 1671 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has No Children John Harding b: 9 Oct 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Joshua Harding b: 15 Feb 1675 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Nathaniel Harding b: 25 Dec 1676 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Abiah Harding b: 26 Jan 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Has Children Samuel Harding b: 1 Sep 1683 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Sources:

Title: Randall and Allied Families Author: William R Randall Publication: Ancestry World Tree at Ancestry.com Note: Very well documented, unlike most of the online crap. Sources include: "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 "Descendants of Stephen Hopkins" by Charles G Knopf; March 1998 "Mayflower Increasings" by Susan E. Roser; Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 2nd edition; 1995 "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Francis Cooke of the Mayflower" by Ralph V. Wood, Jr.; Picton Press; Camden, Maine; 1996 "The Marriage of Francis Cooke at Leyden, in 1603 To Hester Mahieu" by George Ernest Bowman; Published By The Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants; Boston Title: genforum.genealogy.com Page: /harding/messages/539 and 505, 7/7/1999 Title: genforum.genealogy.com Page: /harding/messages/717.html, 11/1/1999 references book "the Hardings" Title: Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans... Author: Smith and Smith Publication: 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD Text: Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons. 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co. Page: p 28 Title: The First Settlers of Eastham, Mass. Author: David Hamblin Publication: 1852. New England Historical & Genealogical Register, volume VI, pages 41 ff Page: 41, 46 Title: The First Settlers of Eastham, Mass. Author: David Hamblin Publication: 1852. New England Historical & Genealogical Register, volume VI, pages 41 ff Page: 46

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-17

'Bethia (Cooke) Harding (abt. 1640 - 1687)

Bethia Harding formerly Cooke

Born about 1640 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

ANCESTORS

Daughter of Josias Cooke and Elizabeth (Ring) Cooke

Sister of Elizabeth (Deane) Twining [half], Miriam Deane [half],

Susanna (Deane) Snow [half], Anne (Cooke) Snow and Josiah Cooke Jr.

Wife of Joseph Harding —

married 4 Apr 1660 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony

DESCENDANTS

Mother of Martha (Harding) Brown, Mary Harding, Prudence (Harding) Atwood,

Joseph Harding, Josiah Harding, Maziah Harding, John Harding, Nathaniel Harding,

Susanna (Harding) Brown, Joshua Harding, Abiah Harding and Samuel Harding

Died 31 May 1687 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony

Profile managers: Bobbie Hall [send private message],

Mark Chapman [send private message], and Kerry Fisher [send private message]

Cooke-17 created 11 Jun 2010 | Last modified 11 Feb 2017

Biography

Alternative death date: aft 1673-10-17 [1] Bertha was born in 1640. Bertha Cook ...

She passed away in 1687. [2]

Marriage

"Joseph Harding and Bethiah Cook ware mareied the fourth Day of Apreill

in the yeare on thousand Six hundered & Sixty"[3]

Sources

Smith Jr., Leonard H. and Norma H. Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans: An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in The Mayflower Descendant, With an added index of persons, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2007. Original publisher: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1993. Freeman, Frederick, The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County; Boston, 1858-62 http://www.oakbaydesigns.com/Maine/1harding.htm ↑ http://chrisman.org/pedigree/out43.htm#RIN15479 ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Mark Chapman, Saturday, January 25, 2014. Bethia was born about 1647. Bethia Cooke ... She passed away about 1673, <ref>Entered by Douglas or Doug Harding, firsthand knowledge Dec 11, 2012 from Cooke-1191</li> <li id="_note-2">%E2%86%91 Eastham Vital Records & Cemetery Inscriptions, Early Vital Records of Barnstable Co., MA to about 1850, CD-ROM (Wheat Ridge, CO: Search & Research, 1997), p. 64</li></ol></ref>

Acknowledgments

Contributors: Kerry Fisher, Bobbie Hall, Douglas or Doug Harding, Mark Chapman,

GEDCOM Source

@R703702304@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=162369054&pi...

Ancestry Public Mayflower Tree

Bethiah Cooke

Birth Unknown

Death Unknown
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   1671

   Birth of son Amaziah Harding(1671–1734)

   1 Nov 1671 • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

1734

   Death of son Amaziah Harding(1671–1734)

   5 Jun 1734 • Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

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   Joseph Harding

   Amaziah Harding

1671–1734