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Orson Welles

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John Cooke

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Orson Welles — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 646 
  • Father:
  • Francis Cooke 
  • Mother:
  • Hester le Mahieu   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • from 1 Jan 1607 to 31 Mar 1607 
  • Christening Location:
  • Walloon Church, Leiden, Holland 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 Nov 1695 
  • Death Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cooke Memorial Park, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Warren
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Mar 1634 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Cooke

  Elizabeth Cooke (Ahnentafel No:323 )

  Hester Cooke

  Mary Cooke

  Mercy Cooke

  • Notes: 
  • Last male survivor of the passengers on the Mayflower.

• Sources for John Cooke

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/14/2012).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Deaths, Vol. 3, p. 25.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, pp. 73-74.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1909, Vol. 63, p. 128.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1989, Vol. 143, p. 197.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1993, Vol. 147, p. 191.
  • ⁷ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 469-470.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1792, 1936.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 103, 119.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 14-15, 108, 140-142, 293, 446 [sic], 447-448, 526, 559, 601, 747, 760, 817.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 5-6.
  • ¹³ Wakefield, Robert S., compiler, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: Richard Warren of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1997), 4.
  • ¹⁴ 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, 37-46.