Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Elizabeth Rookes

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• • 12th Great-grandmother of Anderson Cooper — 15th Generation
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  • 27145 
  • Father:
  • Robert Rookes 
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  • Westhorpe, Suffolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Wingfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1470 
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  Thomas Wingfield

  Robert Wingfield (Ahnentafel No:13572 )

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  • Elizabeth Rokes's father my be named Thomas or Robert.

• Sources for Elizabeth Rookes

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 160.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, pp. 382-383.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 353.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 23.

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