Facts and events
Marriage | July 14, 1696 Note: "Saml Cook married Mary Roberts, by Major Mansfield Jul 14, 1696" (Wallingford Vital Records, p. 161, line 16, Family History Library film 6018)
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LDS spouse sealing | February 25, 1887 LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States |
Note | "Saml Cook married Mary Roberts, by Major Mansfield Jul 14, 1696" (Wallingford Vital Records, p. 161, line 16, Family History Library film 6018) Wallingford Marriages Vol. 2, p. 2 (Family History Library film #6052) lists Samuel Cook's marriage to Mary Roberts Jul 14, 1696. Also found in Lucius A. Barbour and Lucius B. Barbour, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library, 1911-1934), citing Wallingford VR, 1:161. "Cook, Sam[ue]ll, m. Mary Roberts, July 14, 1696, by Major Mansfield." This marriage is the subject of two articles in the Boston Transcript, 3 April 1905, #637, by "Westfield." "Samuel (2) Cooke, son of Henry (1) Cooke married second July 14, 1696, Mary Roberts, widow of Eli Roberts, with seven Roberts children and Samuel Cooke had eight children by his first wife, Hope Parker, whom he married May 2, 1667, and by second wife had three more children, making eighteen children. Then Samuel Cooke died March 1702 and his widow married again April 9, 1705 Daniel Howe. Proved by County Court Records thus: Ely Roberts inventory, taken June 1693, and May, 1695, Court granted Mary Roberts of New Haven right to sell about 30 acres from her husband’s estate, he being insolvent when deceased, leaving seven children for her to bring up. The same records show in 1705, estate of Daniel Howe of Wallingford, Conn., late deceased, to Mary Howe, alias Cooke, executrix of Ely Roberts." The second: 25 Jun 1923 #851: Mary, widow of Eli Roberts Married Samuel Cooke. She married third Jeremiah Howe of New Haven and Wallingford. In the Boston Transcript, 3 April 1905, #637, Mr. "Westfield" states there were only two marriages, and that Mary Roberts was Samuel's second wife after his first wife died. We now know there were 3 marriages, but because both the 2nd and 3rd wives were named Mary there was confusion. Their death dates give the answer. |