Thomas Cocke

• Name	Thomas Cocke
  Birth	of Ipswich, Suffolk, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I5253	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2020

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Naomi Cocke,   c. of Ipswich, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F1926	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  A religious dissenter who evidently managed to evade persecution. A 1675 entry in the diary of Samuel Hubbard says that Hubbard still had a "testament of my grandfather Cocke's, printed in 1549, which he [Cocke] hid in his bed straw lest it should be found and burned in queen Mary's days." [Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth Century England, citation details below] Multiple ancestry.com trees give the father of Naomi Cocke as the Thomas Cocke who was baptized 10 Jun 1564 in Witherfield, Suffolk. Obviously if Samuel Hubbard's "testament of my grandfather Cocke's" was in fact "printed in 1549," this Thomas Cocke cannot be Naomi's father.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3730] The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island by Nellie Willard Johnson. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Typesetting, 1937. [S3731] Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth Century England by David S. Katz. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988.