'Norwich city records ... list Christopher Cocke, a carpenter, aged 34, with a wife Ellen, aged 26, and one child living in St. Mary Coslany parish in 1570 [citing John F. Pound, ed., The Norwich Census of the Poor, 1570, Norfolk Rec. Soc., 40(1971):70]. This first wife was Ellen Wigman, ... She was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary Coslany on 28 September 1579, leaving Christopher as a single parent with four young children.'
