Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Jacob Cooke Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 574 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Cooke 
  • Mother:
  • Damaris Hopkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1653 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Apr 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Miller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Cooke

  Lydia Cooke

  Rebecca Cooke

  Jacob Cooke

  Margaret Cooke (Ahnentafel No:287 )

  Josiah Cooke

  John Cooke

  Damaris Cooke

• Sources for Jacob Cooke Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1934, Vol. 88, p. 262.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 11.
  • ³ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 30.
  • ⁴ Lazell, Theodore Studley, John Lazell of Hingham and Some of His Descendants, Haverhill, Massachusetts: The Record Publishing Company (1936), 11.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 192, 257, 324, 759.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 85.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 27.
  • ⁹ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 550.
  • ¹⁰ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 85-86.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 54.

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