Hester Mahieu
1588 - Aft 1666 (~ 84 years)
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Name Hester Mahieu
Born Between 1582 and 1588 Canterbury, Kent, England [1, 2]
Alternate birth 1584
Died Aft 8 Jun 1666 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts [1, 3, 4]
Buried Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachussets [5]
Person ID I1708 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
Last Modified 16 Mar 2016
Father Jacques Mahieu, b. of near Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Mother Jennie
Family Francis Cooke, b. Aft Aug 1582, d. 7 Apr 1663, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age < 80 years)
Married 20 Jul 1603 Leiden, Netherlands [3, 6, 7, 8, 9]
+ 1. Mary Cooke, b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 21 Mar 1714, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 89 years)
Or Esther.
"In his attempt to justify the structure and practice of the Plymouth church to an English audience, Edward Winslow included among his examples 'the wife of Francis Cooke being a Walloon, [who] holds communion with the Church at Plymiuth, as she came from the French, to this day, by virtue of communion of churches'." [The Great Migration Begins]
[S636] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 1999.
[S1139] Ancestral Lines, Third Edition: 206 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California: 1998., place only.
[S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
[S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., date only.
[S160] Wikipedia.
[S603] Walter James Harrison, "New Light on Francis Cooke, His Wife Hester Mahieu, and Their Son John." The Mayflower Descendant 27:145, Oct 1925.
[S636] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 1999., no date.
[S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.
[S1139] Ancestral Lines, Third Edition: 206 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California: 1998., "after 20 July 1603".