Ancestry of
Helen Louise Gower

(1910–1985)

Josias Cooke

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Helen Louise Gower — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1796 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Cooke 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1610 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Oct 1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Ring
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Sep 1635 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ann Cooke

  Bethia Cooke

  Josiah Cooke (Ahnentafel No:898 )

  • Notes: 

  • Josias Cooke has often been claimed to be a son of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. This has been proven wrong by George Bowman in the Mayflower Descendant (Vol. 3, p. 97).

    Josias Cooke's given name is also seen as Josiah.

• Sources for Josias Cooke

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1852, Vol. 6, p. 43.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1965, Vol. 42, pp. 197-201.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1913, Vol. 15, pp. 34-38.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 472-475, 516.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 854.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 12, 25.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 48.
  • ⁸ 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. 367.
  • ⁹ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 63.