Peter Cook

  General Notes:

These are the birth and death records for the children of Peter Cook/e
(c.1674-1713) & Elinor Norman, (c.1675-c.1727) copied from the original records.
Peter Cook/e of Tarvin & Elinor Norman of Kingsley, Cheshire, married at
Newton Friends Meeting, near Overton, Cheshire, England, the 7th day 10th mo 1695.
Peter died about April-May 1713 at sea during the family's removal to
Pennsylvania. All the surviving children lived in London Grove twp., Chester Co.,
for at least fourteen years before moving on. The line of John Cook/e remains
in Chester Co. after many generations.
Widow Elinor Cook married widower John Fincher about 7mo. 27, 1714, probably
at Goshen Friends Meeting, Chester Co., where John & Elinor were members. At
the time of their marriage Elinor had six children and John had seven. The
family lived on John's farm of 245 acres in Goshen twp. until 1716, when they
moved to London Grove twp., where John owned another farm. By 1720, the land
adjoining John Fincher's to the west in London Grove twp. was Peter Cook/e
and to the west of Peter was John Cook/e. Isaac Cook/e appears to be the last
child to leave Chester Co., about 1750.
Religious Society of Friends Quaker Digest Registers
Births, Marriage & Deaths For England and Wales c.1650-1837
Cheshire & Staffs Quarterly Meeting Digest Registers 1648-1837
LDS FHL Fiche #184597
Births
Book 217
pg. 37 Cooke, John 1696 7 2 son of Peter & Elinor Tarvin
pg. 39 Cooke, Mary 1698 9 12 daughter of Peter & Elinor Tarvin
pg. 43 Cooke, Peter 1700 10 4 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 45 Cooke, Isaac 1702 10 18 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 47 Cook, Thomas twin 1704 8 29 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 47 Cook, Abraham twin 1704 8 29 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 47 Cook, Elinor 1707 3 22 daughter of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 57 Cook, Mary 1709 3 22 daughter of Peter & Elinor Northwich
pg. 57 Cooke, Samuel 1712 2 23 son of Peter & Elinor Northwich
Marriages
Book 219
pg. 128 Cooke, Peter Tarvin Blacksmith Elinor Norman Kingsley Newton 1695 10
7
Deaths
Book ? (maybe 221)
pg. 77 Cooke, Mary 11 9 1700 2yrs.
pg. 87 Cook, Abraham 9 14 1704 17dys. Parents of Northwich, son Peter &
Elinor
Bob Cooke

Peter married Elinor Norman on 7 Oct 1695 in Newton MM, Overton, Cheshire, England. (Elinor Norman was born on 2 Feb 1673 in Kingsley, Cheshire, England ¹ and died in 1726 in London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania ¹.)