William Edson

Francis Cooke 1583–1663: Mayflower Passenger

Posted on June 30, 2016 Updated on October 17, 2020

Francis Cooke

1583–1663

my 11th great-grandfather

Mayflower Passenger

Jane COOKE (1616 – )
daughter of Francis COOKE

John Experience MITCHELL (1632 – 1719)
son of Jane COOKE

Elizabeth MITCHELL (1628 – 1684)
daughter of John Experience MITCHELL

Jane WASHBURN (1671 – 1698)
daughter of Elizabeth MITCHELL

Joanna ORCUTT (1690 – 1758)
daughter of Jane WASHBURN

William EDSON (1724 – 1800)
son of Joanna ORCUTT

Keziah EDSON (1755 – 1841)
daughter of William EDSON

William HARKNESS (1793 – 1831)
son of Keziah EDSON

Capt. John Rankin HARKNESS (1830 – 1903)
son of William HARKNESS

Edna Irene HARKNESS (1880 – 1952)
daughter of Capt. John Rankin HARKNESS

John Harkness MORRIS (1901 – 1965)
son of Edna Irene HARKNESS

Janie Lucille MORRIS (1935 – 2013)
daughter of John Harkness MORRIS

Me
the daughter of Janie Lucille MORRIS

Francis Cooke was born in 1583 in Essex, the child of Richard and Alice. He married Hester Mahieu on June 30, 1603, in Netherlands. They had seven children in 18 years. He died on April 7, 1663, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 80 years.

Francis Cooke

Francis Cooke was born in England, around 1583. By profession, he was a woolcomber. He was in Leiden as early as 1603 (before the Pilgrim Separatist community emigrated to Holland) when he married Hester Mayhieu. They were members of the Leiden Walloon Church, a congregation of French-speaking Belgian people whose beliefs were very similar to those of the English Separatists.

Francis arrived in Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower with his teenage son John. Hester Mayhieu Cooke and the couple’s two other children, Jane and Jacob, arrived on the Anne in 1623. Two more daughters, Hester and Mary, were born to Francis and Hester Cooke in Plymouth.

Francis Cooke died in 1663.

http://www.pilgrimhall.org/francis_cooke.htm

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Judge John Smith “Johnny” Morris, Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, USA – Harrison County Chancery Court Judge

Janie Morris – abt1954 Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi Gulfport High School Majorette

David Edmund Morris, Chief Engineer, USS Ranger – David Edmund Morris is the officer on the left of the photo.

cir 1920 – David Edmund Morris, Chief Engineer, USS Ranger. David Edmund Morris is the officer on the right of the photo.

Capt. John Rankin Harkness 1830–1903 / Biloxi Pioneer / Architect and builder of many homes, the school and businesses in Biloxi. Harkness was street commissioner on the Biloxi City Council and was a member of the school board as evidenced in The Biloxi Herald newspaper at the time.

Janie Morris, Pam Beatty – Gulfport, Mississippi

cir 1957 Playing in an old fishing boat that belonged to Ed Morris, Kevin Cooper and Tenderly Rose enjoy the sand in the re-purposed john boat. The boat’s final resting place was Rosie and John Morris’s home at 1711 Wisteria Street in Gulfport, Mississippi (Gulf Gardens).

Biloxi Pioneers – John Rankin Harkness and his wife, Irene Jordan Harkness. Old Biloxi Cemetery, Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi

Helen Marie Hoagland, second child on the left side of this photo, was my biological paternal grandmother. She took part in this “Tom Thumb Wedding” in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois.

cir 1920 – David Edmund Morris, Chief Engineer, USS Ranger. David Edmund Morris is the officer in the middle of the photo.

David Edmund Morris 1920’s Puerto Rico Photo of D.E. Morris on a ship while he was a Chief Engineer of the USS Ranger

Janie Morris Estrada

David Edmund “D. E.” Morris of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Helen Marie Hoagland Shales Bosworth Mason – Unknown year Biloxi, Mississippi and Elgin, Illinois

Rosie S. Morris with Millard Ayers “Boots” and Helen Hoagland Mason. Mississippi Gulf Coast Out for supper at the “White House” Restaurant. It used to be a favorite place to dine for many Gulf Coast residents. I believe that shadow photographer may be my mother’s shadow and I would have been four years old at the time of this photo so was that me beside her?

Janie and her grandkids, Kate, Justin and Evan – 1990’s Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, USA at Hungry Hill, 1711 Wisteria Street.

The Daily Herald-Chicago Illinois 1974 January 27 John Mosiman: his painting comes from the heart

David Edmund “DE” Morris, 1902 – Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA Photo from Daily Herald Biographical Sketch

Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, USA Bama Smith Grayson, Tenderly Rose Bosworth held by Janie Morris Bosworth, Rosie S. Morris, Patsy Grayson Gendron and Helen Hoagland Bosworth Mason standing together on front yard of “Hungry Hill” at 1711 Wisteria Street.

Aunt Tommye - Stranded-Milw Journal 19 Jul 1949

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William Edson

Francis Cooke 1583–1663: Mayflower Passenger

Francis Cooke

Mayflower Passenger

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