Ancestry of
Henry Lee Higginson

Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Mary Cooke

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Henry Lee Higginson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 309 
  • Father:
  • William Cooke 
  • Mother:
  • Martha White   
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 16 Nov 1645 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Aaron Cooke Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1637 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joanna Cooke

  Aaron Cooke III (Ahnentafel No:154 )

  Moses Cooke

  Elizabeth Cooke

  • Notes: 

  • There is some argument as to whether or not Aaron Cooke had a first wife named Mary Cooke. Some argue that Aaron only had three wives and that the first wife, and mother of all his children, was Joan Denslow. More evidence is needed regarding the first two wives of Aaron Cooke.

• Sources for Mary Cooke

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1980, Vol. 56, p. 230.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 110.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39, 45, 52.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 479.
  • ⁶ Rose-Troup, Frances, John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester (Dorset) and the Founder of Massachusetts 1575-1648, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1930), 406.