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Hester Mahieu

Female 1588 - 1675  (~ 84 years)


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  • Name Hester Mahieu  [1
    Birth Between 1582 and 1588  Canterbury, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Alternate birth 1584 
    Death Between 8 Jun 1666 and 18 Dec 1675  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Jeanne 
    Family ID F1606  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Francis Cooke,   b. Abt 1583   d. 7 Apr 1663, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Marriage 30 Jul 1603  Leiden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
    Children 
    +1. Jane Cooke,   b. Abt 1604, Leiden, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1631 and 1640, Plymouth Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 27 years)
    +2. John Cooke,   b. Abt 1607   d. 23 Nov 1695, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 88 years)
    +3. Mary Cooke,   b. Abt 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Mar 1715, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (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 
    1. [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.

    2. [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.

    3. [S6519] Robert Bartlett of the "Anne" and His Descendants of Four Generations by Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000.

    4. [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.

    5. [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.

    6. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020., first date only.

    7. [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.

    8. [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.

    9. [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.

    10. [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.

    11. [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.

    12. [S3710] Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, "Leiden Records." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:195, 1989.

    13. [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".

    14. [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.