Margaret COOKE was the daughter of Nicholas COOKE of North Repps, County of Norfolk, and Winifred COOKE. Margaret was a sister and devisee of Thomas COOKE of Great Yarmouth (who made his will, Archdeaconry Court of Norwich, 3 Nov 1623).
The St. Nicholas Church Parish Register for "Mariage" on 22 Sep 1605 says:
"Steven Willyams" and "Mgarot Cooke" on "September 1605" the "22"nd.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS, of Great Yarmouth, County Norfolk, was a son of Robert Williams & Jane Shepherd of West Somerton, of a sixteenth century family which reaches back to a considerable antiquity.
They had a family of:
I. Ann, christened 7 Sep 1606,
II. ROBERT, bap. 11 Dec 1608,
III. Thomas,
IV. Nicholas, bap. 11 Aug 1616,
V. John,
VI. Margaret,
VII. Frances, and
VIII. Steven (infant) buried 29 Oct 1625 at St. Nicholas Church burial yard.
Margaret died in Great Yarmouth, and was buried 13 Sep 1625, a week before her husband Stephen died.
[excerpts from Mackenzie, George Norbury, Ed. "Colonial Families of the United States of America", Vol.1. (New York: 1907), pp.587-8]
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