...the ancestry of Cooke is probably accurate, and definitely more accurate than it appears in the Sussex visitation.
certain where the truth lies....the ancestry of Cooke is probably accurate, and definitely more accurate than it appears in the Sussex visitation.
Actually, on reflection, I am not sure this last statement of mine is very accurate...The Cooke ancestry appears in three different places in the Sussex visitation, with certain inconsistencies, and although there are definitely errors I am not very
On Monday, August 8, 2022 at 9:17:25 PM UTC-4, Roderick Ward wrote:certain where the truth lies.
...the ancestry of Cooke is probably accurate, and definitely more accurate than it appears in the Sussex visitation.
Actually, on reflection, I am not sure this last statement of mine is very accurate...The Cooke ancestry appears in three different places in the Sussex visitation, with certain inconsistencies, and although there are definitely errors I am not very
I am now more certain where the truth lies. None of the visitations is particularly accurate.Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex p. 184-185 note that in 1412 that William Bramshott had half of the manor of ‘Rusyton’ and Thomas Haket and the other half, paying out of it an annuity to John Cooke. Joan had a brother, Thomas Rocle, who was
The manor of Rustington, Sussex was divided between Joan and Eva, two daughters of John de Bohun and his first wife Isabel, as the heirs of their bodies although John had a son, John, by his second wife, Cecily Filliol. [1]
Joan married John Lisle and was the the mother of the Elizabeth who married John Bramshott.
Eva married first John Barforth (Bereford), and then John Roklee. [2]
John Rokle’s (Roucle’s, Rookley’s) daughter Joan married John Cooke. [3]
Joan and John’s son was Richard Cooke. [4]
[1] [CCR 1368 May 12]
[2] The Berkshire VCH (4:sub Long Wittenham), citing Close Rolls and Plea Rolls, describes a case involving “Eva widow of John de Barforth, then wife of John Roklee.” John Rokle holds half of the manor of Rustington, Sussex in his 1393 ipm.
[3] In National Archives nos. JER/SEL/1/9 and JER/SEL/1/10, in 1389/90 John Roucle gets power of attorney for his dying father Geoffrey in order to give land to John Cook of Wykham and Joan his wife. Elwes and Robinson in A History of the Castles,
[4] In Feudal Aids, for the Isle of Wight in 1428: “Ricardus Coke tenent quartam partem f. m. in Rokeley, quod Adam de Rokeley quondam tenuit.” Adam de Rokeley was Geoffrey de Roucle’s elder brother. Geoffrey was his heir. In 1431: “RicardusCouk de comitatu Sussexie, gentilman, seisitus fuit, ut de libero tenemento, dicto die Veneris, de iiijta parte un. f. m. in Roucle, in insula predicta.” Richard Cook of Rustington esquire appears in a 1443 case [C 241/229/12]. In a 1455 case
Probably all this has been worked out before, but I haven’t been to a library for a while and my google-fu has been letting me down recently.
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