Mary Rickard

Not the same as Mary Rickard who married Deacon John Rickard

Mary Cooke was the daughter of Jacob Cooke and Damaris Hopkins, and the wife of John Rickard, Jr.

Mary Cooke

• Birth: 12 Jan 1657/8 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
• Death: 28 Aug 1712 at age 54 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
• Burial: Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.9557689, Longitude: -70.665993
• Parents: Jacob Cooke and Damaris Hopkins
• Wife of John Rickard Jr. — married about 1678 in Plymouth Colony.

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Biography

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Mary was a daughter of Jacob Cooke and his wife Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke. According to Plymouth Vital Records, she was born 12 January 1657/8 (i.e., 1658) in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] In Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, Mary W. Ferris reported the birthdate as 22 January 1658;[2] the 10-day difference is apparently due to her accounting for the 10-day date shift when the calendar was changed in 1752.

Mary married John Rickard, son of John Rickard, in Plymouth in about 1678. There has been some uncertainty as to whether Mary Cooke married that John Rickard or his first cousin John Rickard, the son of Giles Rickard. Both men had wives named Mary. In an article entitled "Which John Rickard married Mary Cooke?" in the August 1983 Mayflower Quarterly,[3] Eugene Stratton presented evidence that Mary Cooke's husband was John the son of John. As described by "jrich" in a personal genealogy page, Stratton based this conclusion primarily on a comparison of signatures.[4]

Children

John Rickard and Mary Cooke are recorded as the parents of seven children. All but the last two named are listed in Plymouth Vital Records:[5]

1. John Rickard, born 26 February 1679.[6] He apparently died before February 1684.
2. Mercy Rickard, born 3 February 1682. [7] Married Ignatrius Cushing.
3. John Rickard, born 3 February 1684. [8] Married Sarah.
4. Mary Rickard; not in Vital Records, but named in her father's will[9] "1688: Mary, daughter of Mary Rickard [baptized]." Married Timothy Morton.
5. Ester (or Hester) Rickard, born 1 April 1691. no further information.
6. Elizabeth Rickard; born about 1694; not in Vital Records, but named in her father's will.[9] Married Ebenezer Doggett.
7. James Rickard, born 25 or 26 September 1696. Married Hannah Howland.

Death

Mary's husband John Rickard made his on 20 April 1711, and his estate was inventoried 20 June 1712. His will provided bequests Mary, sons John and James, and daughters Mercy [married name not legible], Mary Rickard, Hester Rickard, and Elizabeth Rickard. [9]

Mary died, not long after her husband, on 28 August 1712. She is buried near him, at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Her gravestone inscription reads: [22]

• Here Lyes Buried
• Ye Body of
• Mary Rickard
• Aged 55 Years
• Decesd August Ye
• 28th 1712

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References

1. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pattyrose/engel/gen/fg18/f...
2. 30. Mayflower Vital Records; volumes include: "Births and Deaths, I and II;" "Increasings;" "Marriages;" and "Deeds and Probates" by Susan E. Roser, extracted from the files of George Ernest Bowman : Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore. "Mary Cooke, b. 12 Jan. 1657/8, Plymouth, d. 28 Aug. 1712, age 55, Plymouth; m. c1678, Plymouth, John Rickard, son of John Rickard & Hester Barnes, b. 24 Nov. 1657, Plymouth, d. 25 Apr. 1712, Plymouth. 7 chil."
3. Mayflower and Early Families
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84440844/mary-rickard
5. Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 7 2024, 3:20:05 UTC
6. Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 7 2024, 3:21:15 UTC
7. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Cooke_%281%29
8. WikiTree contributors, "Mary (Cooke) Rickard (1658-1712)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-40 : accessed 07 December 2024).
9. Plymouth Vital Records, page 662: "Mary, the daughter of Jacob Cooke was born the 12th of Jan 1657/8" Source: #S109, Vol. 2, Page 246
10. Stratton, Eugene. "Which John Rickard married Mary Cooke?", Mayflower Quarterly, v. 49, p. 122, August 1983.
11. jrich, Family:John Rickard and Mary Cooke (2), WeRelate.org, 29 March 2011.
12. "Vital Records of Plymouth," transcribed at Descendants of Stephen Hopkins - Mary Cooke
13. Plymouth Vital Records, Page 670. "John Rickard, son of John Rickard Jr. was born on the 26th day of February 1679."
14. Plymouth Vital Records, Page 671. "Mercye, the daughter of John Ricard, the son of John Rickard deceased was born the 12th of Feb 1682."
15. Plymouth Vital Records, Page 671. "John Rickard, the son of John Rickard deceased, was born the 12th of Feb 1684."
16. Will and probate papers of John Rickard, in Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881, from New England Historic Genealogical Society
17. Ferris, Mary W. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Volume 1, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2005; original book privately printed, 1943.
18. John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Page 11.
19. Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Francis Cooke, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1996 [1st edition], Pages 54, 85-86.
20. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL8Y-WCV
21. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr11/rr11_281.html#P10657