Capt. Thomas Cocke

THOMAS COCKE

Thomas Cocke is the brother of William Cocke. [John Bennett Boddie, Southside Virginnia Families, Volume I (Genealogical Publishing Company Incorporated, 2003), page 147 et seq.

Biography

Dorman, John Frederick, Adventures of Purse and Person Virginia

9. ELIZABETH3 MASON (Lemuel2, Francis1) married, about 1683, Capt. Thomas Cocke, son of Thomas and Mary (Pearse) Cocke, who was baptized 6 July 1652 at Constantine, Cornwall.45 As a resident of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties, he patented 721 acres on West’s Creek 21 Oct. 1687,46 and left will 20 Aug. 1697-6 Oct. 1697.47
Issue: [COCKE]48

• 35. MARY4; Mary Cocke, b. Abt 1687, Lynn Haven, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia. Married John Simmons.
• 36. Anne4. Anne Cocke, b. 22 Jul 1690, Lynn Haven, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia , d. Abt 17 Jul 1749, Prince George County, Virginia. Married Robert Bolling (1686-1749)

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Princes Anne/Surry Cockes:

"...the Surry and the Princess Anne Cockes, whose progenitors were three brothers: Captain Thomas Cocke, William Cocke, and Walter Cocke; and their cousin Captain Christopher Cocke; who came to Virginia about 1690, and settled in Surry and Princess Anne counties (in 1700-1716 Captain Christopher Cocke was Clerk of Princess Anne county, and about 1695 the family of Captain Thomas Cocke intermarried with that of Colonel Lemuel Mason, the leading citizen of Norfolk county; while in 1699, William Cocke was a justice of Surry county, and both William and Walter justices of the same county in 1714, showing that they were persons of consequence from the very beginning."[2]

References

• James Branch Cabell. "The Majors and Their Marriages." The W. C. Hill Printing Co. (Richmond: 1915) 34-38. Also page 25 Archive.Org
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/4242036?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents discusses his marriage to Elizabeth Mason, widow Major.
• Jamestowne Society Magazine | Vol. 41, No 2 Fall 2017 A corrected Ancestry for Anne Cocke Bolling by Lyndon H. Hart, III (page 14), accessed 20 September 2021. PDF
• Southside Virginia Families, Volume 1 Page 146-147 Googlebooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cocke-684 cites
  • 1. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch [1]
  • 2. J ames C. Southall, "Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jan 1896), pp. 282-292+340 (Virginia Historical Society). Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241891 (accessed 19 March 2019). Further details, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Oct 1897), p. 181.
  • 3. Dorman, John Frederick, Adventures of Purse and Person Virginia 1607 - 1624/5, Edition: 4th, Volume: II (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 2005), p. [* Dorman, John Frederick, Adventures of Purse and Person Virginia 1607 - 1624/5, Edition: 4th, Volume: II (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 2005), p. 573, Mason, #9. Link
• Southside Virginia Families, Volume 1 Page 146-147 Googlebooks
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I6063... cites
  • 1. [S75] Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. II, from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
  • 2. [S247] The Virginia Genealogist Volume 44, 2000, 41.
• James P. C. Southall. “Origins of the Cocke Families of Virginia.” The William and Mary Quarterly 9, no. 1 (1929): 49–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/1920377.