That's the problem: I don't know much about my line. My only known Cook ancestor is my 4th great grandfather, Maj. George Cook. George Cook and wife Jane Ashley had four daughters, one of whom is my ancestor. He had one son who died as an infant. "Pioneers of Wiregrass etc." wrongly assigns a daughter named Margaret born in NC in 1804. She is proven NOT to be a daughter, however, this info proliferates on the web (WFT & Genealogy.com as well as on LDS Ancestral CD#29). George Cook's mother was Rebecca Rosetta Downey. I have a good deal of information on Rebecca and her 3rd marriage to William Pengree; a bit of info on her 2nd marriage to John Kean by whom she had one daughter, Eliza. However, after years of trying I have been unable to learn the first name of Rebecca's 1st husband, George Cook's father. A published footnote says George was born in NC (ca 1765). The Cathedral records of St. Augustine say that Eliza was born in East FL (1772). Rebecca and John Kean fled to East Fl during the upheaval leading up to the American Revolution. John Kean was originally from Pennsylvania (again, Cathedral records of St. A). The same records show Rebecca was born in Yorkshire, England (ca 1745) but she has not been located in the IGI so I do not know her parents' names. There were Cooks, Keans, and Downeys (or Downings) living in close proximity in Rowan Co. I hope this may account for Rebecca's first two marriages. (Pengree was living in East FL, a wealthy land-owner on the St. John's River.) Any help most happily received! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [COOK-L] COOKs in Rowan Co., NC > any nathans in your line? >