Mayhieu, Hester 1

Birth Name Mayhieu, Hester
Gender female
Age at Death more than about 83 years, 5 months, 7 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth about 1592 Leyden, Netherlands  
 
Immigration 1623    
 
Death after 1675-06-08 Plymouth, Massachusetts  
 
Burial   Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Massachusetts  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father LeMahieu, Jacques Jan
Mother Lamam, Jeanne
         Mayhieu, Hester

Families

    Family of Cooke, Francis and Mayhieu, Hester
Married Husband Cooke, Francis
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage 1603-06-30 Leyden, Netherlands  
 
  Children
  1. Cooke, Hester

Media

Narrative

Walloon, Hugenot, sailed on "Anne", 1623. The marriage record states that Hester Mahieu was from Canterbury , England, but not born there. Her parents may not have moved there until after her birth. There was a large Walloon Church in Canterbury. Edward Winslow wrote of her in Hyporcrisie Unmasked, (London 1646) , p. 960 "Also the wife of Francis Cooke being a Walloone holds Communion with the church at Plymouth as she came form the French, to this day, by vertue of Communion of Churches."

Pedigree

  1. LeMahieu, Jacques Jan
    1. Lamam, Jeanne
      1. Mayhieu, Hester
        1. Cooke, Francis
          1. Cooke, Hester

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Mayflower Descendants, Vol. 8, p. 48, 49; N.E.H.G.R. 107/61