Thank you. By the way is Reed an English name or Irish? Do you know? Thanks again. M.E. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale H. Cook" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [MFLR] Reed or Reid descendants > At 09:38 PM 12/22/2006, Chris Tonn wrote: > >>I know that Francis Cooke has the following Reed descendants: >> >>1 Francis Cooke >> >>2 Mary Cooke m. John Thomson/Thompson >> >>3 Esther Thomson/Thompson m. William Reed > > To add to what Chris wrote, let me note that the surname of Mary > Cooke's husband is most often spelled "Tomson" in 17th-century > records. Some of the children of William and Esther/Hester (Tomson) > Reed settled in the Bridgewater area, especially in Old Abington, and > had numerous descendants in that area, and other children of William > and Esther remained in Weymouth. > > Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; > Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project > http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >