Lydia Faunce

Not the same as Lydia Williams

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, Hester Cooke, Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth Hopkins.

Lydia Cooke

• Birth: May 18 1685 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• Death: July 7 1738 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• Parents: Jacob Cooke Jr. and Lydia Miller
• Husband: John Faunce Jr. - his first wife

Biography

On 23 Feb 1710 when Lydia was 24, she married John Faunce, son of Joseph Faunce (14 May 1653-18 Jan 1728) & Judith Rickard (ca 1657-), in Plymouth, MA.288 Born on 3 Dec 1683 in Plymouth, MA.63 John died in Kingston, MA, on 18 Nov 1751; he was 67.288

Their children include:

1. Judith Faunce (1 Jan 1711-3 Mar 1752)
2. (infant son) Faunce (Twin, died soon) (5 Mar 1713-)
3. (infant son) Faunce (Twin, died soon) (5 Mar 1713-)
4. Lydia Faunce (10 Jun 1714-3 Apr 1784)
5. John Faunce (13 Apr 1716-30 Nov 1768)
6. Hannah Faunce (30 May 1718-24 Dec 1747)
7. Mary Faunce (25 Apr 1720-aft 27 Apr 1780)
8. Mehitable Faunce (11 Apr 1722-1 Jun 1761)
9. Rebecca Faunce (15 Sep 1724-)

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John Faunce and Lydia Cooke

Source: Faunce, James Freer. The Faunce Family History and Genealogy: The Ancestry and Descendants of John Faunce of Purleigh, Essex, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts. (1973) Page 27. < GoogleBooks >

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References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9QQH-LY3
2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHR7-BHK : Fri Mar 08 19:15:41 UTC 2024), Entry for Lydia Faunce, Johns 1st Wife 7 July 1738. Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts
3. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr08/rr08_467.html#P10002 cites
   1. 62. “Plymouth Colony vital records,” Mayflower Descendant, Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman, various volumes. Transcribed form marriages appearing in the Court Orders, and from “Marriages, Births and Burials”
   2. 63. Plymouth Vital Records.
   3. 288. James Freer Faunce, “The Faunce Family,” New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., 114 (1960): 115-125, 211-217.