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Note: From ancestry.com Peter Cook, The First, embarked with his family on a ship bound for Penn's Colony for America. soon after his son Samuel was born in England. But on the voyage Peter the father died, and Elinor the widow landed at the Port of Chester on the Delaware River alone with her eight children. The Records of Chester Friends Meeting 1st mo. 29, 1714 show that she presented to that Meeting on that date a Certificate of Membership in a Friend
's Meeting in England and asked to admitted to the Chester Meeting. Which was granted. The Records further show that that year she was married to John Fincher. He had in 1698 purchased 300 acres of land in London Grove Twp. from Tobias Collett et.al. This John Fincher took the Widow Cook too. In 1769 John Fincher sold this tract on South side of Street Road east of London Grove to Edward Swayne and the tract became the Swayne Ancestrial home. There are nother further recored of John Finchere in Chester County Court House or Elinor or John.
Find a Grave:
Peter Cooke:
Birth: 1674
Tarvin
Cheshire, England
Death: May, 1713
Peter Cooke of Tarvin, Cheshire, England,"and Elinor Norman of Kingsley in ye sd County Soinster having declared their intentions of marriage before severall publick meetings of the people of God called Quakers in afored County". were married 12-7-1695 (10mo.7,1695), "in their Publick Meeting Place at Newton in the afore s'd County of Ches'r.
Marriage Register of Cheshire and Stradfordshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends, General Register Office, Somerset House.
Died of Smallpox.
Family links:
Spouse:
Elinor Norman Fincher (1672 - 1726)
Children:
John Cooke (1696 - 1759)*
Peter Cook (1700 - 1779)*
Thomas Cook (1704 - 1752)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Body buried at sea Specifically: Buried at Sea in the Atlantic Ocean on May 25, 1713
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