Hester Mahieu

1588 - 1675  (~ 84 years)

• Name	Hester Mahieu  [1]
  Birth	Between 1582 and 1588	Canterbury, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1584
  Death	Between 8 Jun 1666 and 18 Dec 1675	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Marie Mahieu ,   b. Abt 1577, Lille, Flanders ▻ Jean de Lannoy ,  m. Abt Jan 1596 + 2. Hester Mahieu ,   b. Between 1582 and 1588, Canterbury, Kent, England d. Between 8 Jun 1666 and 18 Dec 1675, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 84 years) ▻ Francis Cooke ,  m. 30 Jul 1603
  Person ID	I1708	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	(Unknown) Mahieu,   b. of Lille, Flanders
  Mother	Jeanne
  Family ID	F1606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Cooke,   b. Abt 1583   d. 7 Apr 1663, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Marriage	30 Jul 1603	Leiden, Netherlands   [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  Children	+ 1. Jane Cooke,   b. Abt 1604, Leiden, Netherlands d. Between 1631 and 1640, Plymouth Colony (Age ~ 27 years) + 2. John Cooke,   b. Abt 1607   d. 23 Nov 1695, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 88 years) + 3. Mary Cooke,   b. Abt 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony d. 21 Mar 1715, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 89 years)
  Family ID	F1329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Or Esther. The record of her marriage intention in Leiden describes her as an unmarried young woman from Canterbury in England, but while that may have been her most recent residence, all other evidence points to her having been part of a largely French family. "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]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3711] George English, "Ancestry and History of Philip Delano, Born Philippe de Lannoy: Further Findings about the de Lannoy and Mahieu Families." The Mayflower Descendant 69:5, 2021. [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, 2014. [S6519] Robert Bartlett of the "Anne" and His Descendants of Four Generations by Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000. [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., first date only. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., date only, first date only. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020., first date only. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., first date 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., says 20 Jun 1603. [S603] Walter James Harrison, "New Light on Francis Cooke, His Wife Hester Mahieu, and Their Son John." The Mayflower Descendant 27:145, Oct 1925., says 20 Jun 1603. [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, 2014., says after 30 Jun 1603, date of intention. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., says 20 Jun 1603. [S3710] Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, "Leiden Records." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:195, 1989. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020., says "20 July 1603 or shortly thereafter". [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.