"Cook / Cooke" Descendants of Knights, Mayors and Power Players of England: One of the first Cook's, to arrive in America was Captain Henry Cooke on the "Mayflower"

By Ronald R. Choquette

The name Cook follows a line reaching back through history to the days of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain. It is a name for a seller of cooked meats, a keeper of an eating house or someone who worked as a cook. The surname Cook is derived from the Old English word, (coc) which means cook. Researchers found the first record of the name Cook in Essex where the family were seated from ancient times following examination of such manuscripts as the Domesday Book, the Ragman Rolls and the Curia Regis Rolls to name a few. In early reference of Anglo-Saxon Wills, the first record was the name was (Aelfsige Coc) in 950 who is recorded more then one hundred years before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William and his forces at Hasting in 1066 and the relative peace under which the country had existed was shattered by the Norman invasion from France. At this time the victory at the Battle of Hastings meant that many Saxon-Anglo landholders lost their properties to Duke William and his invading Nobles who fought with him. The Cook family however emerged as notable Englishmen throughout England, who managed to hold onto their properties by dealing with the Nobles and the new King William, by any means they had to. The Cooke family of this book, follows the line of the one Cooke that landed in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, who was "Henry Francis Cooke" who arrived in 1632 at 23 years of age. He became the town "Butcher, Surveyor and Farmer", who married Judith Birdsall in June1639. Together they raised 11 children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QRYT5KH
• ISBN13: 9798553362218
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"