Elizabeth Cooke was the second wife of Daniel2 Wilcox, son of Edward1 Wilcox, immigrant ancestor. Elizabeth Cooke was the granddaughter of two male passengers on the Mayflower and her father was also a Mayflower passenger.
The mother of Elizabeth Cooke was Sarah Warren, daughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and his wife Elizabeth Walker.[1],[2] Several years after the arrival of her father, Sarah Warren arrived at Plymouth in August 1623 in the Anne, along with her mother and siblings.[3] Richard Warren was one of the forty-one adult-male signatories to the Mayflower Compact, composed upon the arrival of the Mayflower at Cape Cod Harbor in November 1620.[4]
The father and grandfather of Elizabeth Cooke were two of the 102 Mayflower passengers who arrived at Plymouth in 1620. John Cooke, father of Elizabeth, was about 12 years old when he traveled to Plymouth with his father Francis Cooke.[5],[6]
Researchers are generally in agreement that the first two children (Daniel and Samuel) of Daniel2 Wilcox were by his first wife (name unknown). The remaining eight children were born to Daniel and Elizabeth (Cooke) Wilcox: Mary, Stephen, John, Lydia, Sarah, Edward, Thomas, and Susannah. These eight children are considered descendants of a Mayflower passenger through the ancestry of their mother Elizabeth Cooke.
More information on the Cooke and Warren families is included in Book 2 of Descendants of Edward Wilcox, expected to be available in summer 2024.
[1] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume 1-3, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) 1936. Online at AmericanAncestors.org.
[2] Edward J. Davies, “The Marriage of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower,” The American Genealogist, 78 (April 2003): 81-86. Online at AmericanAncestors.org.
[3] Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Five Generations, (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, Revised Edition Second Printing 2008), 38.
[4] “The Mayflower Compact,” Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com, (http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-compact , accessed 9 August 2022).
[5] Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume 1-3, (1995) 469. Online at AmericanAncestors.org. John Cooke was baptized at Leiden Walloon Church January-March 1607.
[6] William Bradford, Charles Deane, ed., History of Plymouth plantation, ( Boston: Little, Brown and co., 1856), 447,449,455. Online at Archive.org. Passengers of the Mayflower included “Francis Cooke, and his sone John. But his wife & other children came afterwards.”