Hi Mary-Gene, I have been working on this family for years and I had William's name and wife, etc. before we ever wrote to each other. William was listed in records related to this family. For instance, he was along with John and other Cooks listed in the estate accounts and sales for Herbert Cook his brother. There are other records of Mecklenburg County which list William as being connected to this Cook family. I do genealogy research for myself and for some years now for others too and I have been going through tons of records for various families at the Library of Virginia for many years since they were in the old building so I am pretty well acquainted with doing genealogy searching. God bless, Beth -------------- Original message from Mary-Gene Page <mgpage@unlimited.net>: -------------- > Hello again. Yes, I do remember you. > > The DOB for William Sr. should have been 1769 - it was a mental/typing error on > my part. But I have in my notes that "Beth Bond" (that's you?) believes the > birth to have been in 1780. > > I'm not sure that this William (md Frances Rainey) is a son of John Cook and > Betty Ballard. If you have no other documentation other than from me, it may be > a false conclusion. > > Did any of your Cooks go to TN? William did, but none of the others?? > > Mary-Gene > > deliaesther@att.net wrote: > > Hi Mary-Gene, > > We have been in contact before. > > I have done a lot of research on this family and found that John Cook married > Elizabeth "Betty" Ballard. > > Herbert Cook is my line. > > > > William I do not have the exact date of birth for but he was not born in 1969. > He married to Fanny Rainey in 1803. > > > > Herbert was married twice, first to Penelope Taylor in 1802 they had no > children she died very young and he married again to Sarah "Sally" Walker in > 1805, they had 4 children I am descended from two of them. > > > > "Happy" Cook married John Taylor brother of Penelope mentioned above in 1802, > no children. > > > > John Cook, Jr. married Sarah W. Pennington in 1812, they had 7 children. > > > > Elizabeth Cook another child born about 1781 married to Richard Ussery Lemay > in 1804, they had 10 children.(source for Richard Lemay is Betty Butler.) > > > > Martha Cook married to Williamson Rainey in 1810 they had 12 children. > > > > I do my research at the Library of Va. and have been through many Mecklenburg > County records through many years, marriages, deeds, wills, estate accounts, > court orders, etc. and have verified a lot of this information and got a lot of > it from the records. I do have more than I have posted here. > > > > God bless, > > Beth > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message