Carole Hammond wrote: > Lee, > > Have you found any siblings for your Jacob? My first Hooker shows up as > Henry Hucker, getting married in Boston, MA in 1708 to Elizabeth > Helyer/Hilliard. His estimated birth year is 1685 which might make him a > sibling of your Jacob. > > After more than 30 years of looking I still haven't found the parents or > origins of my Henry Hooker. I have seen mention that some of the Hookers > may have come from the Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands as there were > some who ran ferries on the MA coast north of Boston. In the index of a > book on the Channel Islands under Hooker I found Ocker (they spoke more > French than English), Auker, etc. > > In Ipswich, Essex Co., MA there was a Jacob and a John born to Matthew > Hooker and his wife Rachel in the 1680s and '90s. > > Good luck! > Carole in Portland, Oregon