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Note: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Elnor Norm
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Name: Elnor Norman
Gender: Female
Birth Place: En
Birth Year: 1670
Spouse Name: Peter Cook
Spouse Birth Place: En
Spouse Birth Year: 1670
Marriage Year: 1695
Marriage State: En
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. B
ut on the voyage Peter the father died, and Elinor the widow landed at t
he Port of Chester on the Delaware River alone with her eight children. T
he Records of Chester Friends Meeting 1st mo. 29, 1714 show that she prese
nted 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. Whi
ch was granted. The Records further show that that year she was marri
ed to John Fincher. He had in 1698 purchased 300 acres of land in London G
rove Twp. from Tobias Collett et.al. This John Fincher took the Widow Co
ok too. In 1769 John Fincher sold this tract on South side of Street Ro
ad east of London Grove to Edward Swayne and the tract became the Swayne A
ncestrial home. There are nother further recored of John Finchere in Chest
er County Court House or Elinor or John.
William Penn, who had received his grant of land from King Charles II in p
ayment of a debt due his father found his colony and setting up the vario
us department of government to expense to sustain mortgage to Tobias Colle
tt, Haberdasher, Daniel Zuare, Watchmaker, and Henry Goldney, Linendrape
r, all of London on 13th and 14th of March, 1722 his Pennsylvania Colony f
or $25,000. These three moneyed men provided to sell large tracts of la
nd to other land speculators. One of whom known at the Pennsylvania Land C
ompany of London purchased 16,000 acres in Chester County now includ
ed in the Township of London Grove, north of Letihtia Aubrey's (Penn's Dau
ghter) and William Penn Jr. tracts in Kennet and Upper and Lower Oxford Tw
ps. which had been granted by William Penn Sen. himself to his childre
n. A deed on record in Recorder's Office of Chester County Book E. pa
ge 69 has entry therein of Tobias Collett. Trustee conveying on March 4, 1
722 to John Smith, Joseph Pennock, Caleb Pusey, William and John Cook a jo
int tract of 718 acres in Western Chester County mostly in the present Tow nship of Londongrove of which when they divided it up the Pennocks took t
he western part now having the ancestrial home "Colnmet"; and "Primative H
all"; The Lamborn Sound of the Pennocks and John Cook #11, son of Peter a
nd his wife Elinor, about where the village of Londongrove now is with t
he Swayne east of him and north of village of Kennet Square.
Find a Grave:
Elinor Norman Fincher
Birth: Feb. 2, 1672
Cheshire, England
Death: 1726
Pennsylvania, USA
Daughter of
John Norman and Mary Worrall
Wife of
#1 Peter Cook, Sr
#2 John Fincher
Mother of:
1. John Cook
(12 Jul 1696 in Tarvin,Cheshire,England)
2. Mary Cook
(12 Sep 1698 in Tarvin,Cheshire,England)
3. Peter Cook
(4 Oct 1700 in Norwich,Norfolk,England)
4. Isaac M. Cook
(18 Oct 1702 in Norwich,Cheshire,England)
5. Thomas Cook
(29 Aug 1704 in Norwich,Cheshire Co,England)
6. Abraham Cook
(29 Aug 1704 in Tarvin,Cheshire,England)
7. Elinor Cook
(22 Mar 1705 in Norwich,Cheshire,England)
8. Mary Cook
(22 Mar 1708 in Tarvin,Cheshire,England)
9. Samuel Cook
(23 Feb 1712 in Norwich,Cheshire,England)
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