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Does anyone have evidence that connects Rachel Cooke daughter of Henry Cooke with the Rachel Cooke who married William Vinson?
If so, can it be reconciled with the wills of Bridget Varney and William Vinson, which state (Bridget's will) or imply (William's will) that the Rachel Cooke who married William Vinson was the Rachel Varney Cooke Langston who reverted to the name Cooke after her divorce from Joseph Langston?--GayelKnott 10:16, 25 May 2010 (EDT)
- Walter Goodwin Davis, in The Ancestry of Charity Haley (83), wrote that William Vinson/Vincent, who was born about 1610, married on June 10, 1661, Rachel Cooke, a widow. Lora Underhill, in the 1910 edition of Descendants of Edward Small (1011), wrote that "(William Vinson) was mar., second, June 10, 1661, by Mr. Samuel Symonds, to Rachel Cooke, daughter to Bridget Verney, of Gloucester. In the will of Bridget Verney, dated Nov. 10, 1671, proved "27 : 9 :72," she mentioned " daughter Rachel Vinson (the wife of William Vinson) … my sonne in law," and appointed him executor of her estate. Rachel Vinson, widow of William, d. Feb. 15 1707, in Gloucester. It's clear that William Vincent did not marry, for a second wife, a girl not yet 15 and some 35 years his junior. Torrey has Parsons for the maiden name of Vinson's second wife, with a father whose baptismal name was unknown and whose wife, Bridget, married, second, William Varney (who d. 1654) of Ipswich, Salem and Gloucester.--jaques1724 18:50, 15 July 2012 (EDT)
- The Rachel Cooke who married William Vinson was Rachel Varney Cooke, daughter of William Varney and his wife Bridget (possibly Bridget Deverell). (See William Varney and Bridget Deverell (2) for a discussion, with sources, regarding Bridget's maiden name. It wasn't Knight, and she was never married to the father of Jeffrey Parsons). As for the connection to Jeffery Parsons, Torrey just simply got it wrong. See “Jeffery Parsons of Loddiswell, Devonshire and Gloucester, Massachusetts”, by Willis S. Parsons, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 142, July 1988. (Jeffrey Parsons was the son-in-law of William Vinson -- Bridget Varney's reference to him as "son" was basically shorthand for a more distant relationship.)--GayelKnott 07:23, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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