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Bogus Cooke Connection on Ancestry.com

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Bogus Cooke Connection on Ancestry.com

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 10:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Mitchell, Cooke, Moulton
I thought I would let everyone know that there's a tree connection on Ancestry.com to Francis Cooke(1) which is bogus. Francis Cooke's daughter Jane(2)married Experience Mitchell. Among other children, they had a son named Thomas(3). So good so far. This is where it gets bogus. Ancestry.com has this Thomas marrying a Mary Moulton and in turn having a son named Andrew. There is no evidence that Thomas ever married or had any children. Here's what the Francis Cooke society has to say:


From Official Francis Cooke online Geneology of Descendants of Francis Cooke re the Third Generation Thomas Mitchell, grandson of Francis Cooke:

Thomas[3] MITCHELL was born about 1630 in Plymouth, MA. Wood MF5G:12: provides these dates based on the fact that Thomas was a known son of Jane, as he receives an inheritance from his grandfather Francis Cooke; that he was born after 1627 (when Jane is still single) ; and that he was born certainly before Experience remarries in 1640. Such a date would as well coincide with the typical birth patterns of the early families of births occurring quite adjacent to one another. He died after 1672. Wood, MF5G:12: says he died after 1 August, 1672, the last known record that equates this Thomas Mitchell with Francis Cooke, when Thomas sells land in 1672 given to him by his grandfather, Francis Cooke. Very little else is known about him, other than conjecturally. There is some speculation that he may be the Thomas Mitchell of Rhode Island and New London. In an earlier volume: Mayflower Families in Progress, by the society of Mayflower Descendants, Several children and an unknown wife are attributed to Thomas, and are kept here as place keepers. He was at this time thought to have been the Thomas of Block, Rhode Island.

In the new 5G volume by Wood, he does not carry Thomas' line forward, saying very little is known about Thomas, and though the speculations are with possible merit, there is no substantiating proof. If married, we do not have his wife's name; if children we have no positive identification according to Wood.

Mayflower Marriages contains no reference to any Andrew being a son of Thomas Mitchell. It does confirm Thomas Mitchell's marriage to Mary Moulton, but I guess that even that is now in question.

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