Margaret Griswold Cocker

b. 15 December 1735, d. 15 March 1777
Margaret Griswold Cocker|b. 15 Dec 1735\nd. 15 Mar 1777|p39.htm|Emanuel Cocker|b. say 1710\nd. aft. 1772|p12160.htm|Sarah Buckingham|b. 3 Jan 1710|p12161.htm|||||||Thomas Buckingham|b. 29 Sep 1670\nd. 12 Sep 1739|p12164.htm|Margaret Griswold|b. Oct 1668|p12165.htm|
Father*Emanuel Cocker1 b. say 1710, d. aft. 1772
Mother*Sarah Buckingham2 b. 3 Jan 1710
ChartsAncestors of Edward Ambrose Cooke
Ellis Cooke to Edward Ambrose Cooke
Margaret Griswold Cocker was born 15 December 1735.3 She married Colonel Ellis Cook, son of Ellis Cook and Mary Williams, 12 July 1753 at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey.4 She died 15 March 1777 at Hanover .3 She was buried at Hanover Presbyterian Church Grave Yard, Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey.3,5

Margaret and her sister, Sarah, are probable daughters of Sarah and Emanuel Cocker. The sisters are not named in any record yet found, except for their marriages which give their maiden names.

The will of Eliphalet Johnson identifies two minors (William and Samuel) as sons of his wife's sister, and gives his wife's maiden name, Buckingham, but he had no reason to name the two sisters as they were already provided for by their marriages to the Cook brothers. No other Cocker families in the area have been found, and it seems to be a very unusual surname.

Margaret's tombstone in the Hanover burial ground notes her middle name as Griswould, which would be her grandmother's maiden name.

The Buckingham Genealogy errs when saying Sarah married a "Crocker." The will of her brother, Samuel Buckingham, quite clearly reads Cocker. Samuel's will also states his sister Margaret married a Johnson.6,2,3,7

Death records from nearby Morristown show a high number of deaths due to smallpox in the general area and among soldiers at the Morristown encampment, and this is probably the cause of Margaret's death as well.8

Family

Colonel Ellis Cook b. 1732, d. 17 Apr 1797
Marriage*She married Colonel Ellis Cook, son of Ellis Cook and Mary Williams, 12 July 1753 at Hanover .4 
Children

Citations

  1. [S991] John J. Fagan Jr., A Fagan Genealogy, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing Co., 1996), 74. Hereafter cited as Fagan Genealogy.
  2. [S1033] New Jersey, Record of wills in New Jersey, 1705-1804, G:327, FHL microfilm 522738 Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereafter cited as New Jersey Wills.
  3. [S217] William O. Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments in the Grave Yards at Whippany and Hanover, Morris County, N. J, 1894; reprint, Lambertville, New Jersey: Hunterdon House, 1984), 40. Hereafter cited as Wheeler and Halsey, Hanover Graves.
  4. [S216] William Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, "Marriages Performed at Hanover, Morris County, N.J. During Pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green 1746 to 1790," The New Jersey Genesis 11 (January 1964): 457. Hereafter cited as Wheeler and Halsey, "Hanover Marriages."
  5. [S1088] Hanover Presbyterian Church Burial Ground (Hanover, Morris, New Jersey; 3 1/2 miles SE of Hanover on Rt-10), Margaret Cocker Grave Marker, photograph provided by Stuart MacPherson.
  6. [S1032] Connecticut, Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880, Windham District: Samuel Buckingham, FHL microfilm 1032577 Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hereafter cited as Connecticut Probate Files.
  7. [S990] F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the descendants of Thomas Buckingham, one of the first settlers of Milford, Connecticut, (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1872), microform copy: FHL Film/Fiche #9418, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 140-141, 339. Hereafter cited as Buckingham Family.
  8. [S1588] Dr. Johnes and William Cherry, Bill of Mortality: Being a Register of all the Deaths Which Have Occurred in the Presbyterian and Baptist Congregations of Morristown, New Jersey for Thirty Eight Years Past, Containing (With but Few Exceptions) the Cause of Every Decease, (Morristown, New Jersey: Jacob Mann, 1806), microform copy: FHL Film/Fiche #6052165. Hereafter cited as Johnes and Cherry, Bill of Mortality.
  9. [S1033] New Jersey Wills, 37:228; FHL #522732.
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