Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Jacob Cooke

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1148 
  • Father:
  • Francis Cooke 
  • Mother:
  • Hester le Mahieu   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1618 
  • Birth Location:
  • Leyden, Holland 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 11 Dec 1675 to 18 Dec 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Damaris Hopkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 10 Jun 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Cooke

  Caleb Cooke

  Jacob Cooke Jr. (Ahnentafel No:574 )

  Mary Cooke

  Martha Cooke

  Francis Cooke

  Ruth Cooke

• Additional marriages for Jacob Cooke

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Lettice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1669
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Jacob Cooke

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 656, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Cooke.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 470, 575.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 988.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 322.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 11-12.
  • ⁷ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 442.
  • ⁸ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 11.
  • ⁹ Holman, Mary Lovering, The Scott Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts: n. p. (1919), 289.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 67, 86, 162, 164, 192, 257, 324, 417, 438, 468, 511, 603, 678, 686, 705, 756, 759, 798-799.
  • ¹³ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 34.
  • ¹⁴ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 65.
  • ¹⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 16.
  • ¹⁶ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 26, 46-55.

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