In a message dated 06/22/2002 10:02:43 PM, MAYFLOWER-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: >In the Mayflower 5 Generations of Francis Cooke, and in other sources I >have gathered, William Landon was married to Experience Cooke. Hi All, My 8 G Grandfather was Experience Mitchell (a male) who married Jane Cook, daughter of Francis Cooke. Marty Landon Zielke has an ancestor named Experience Cooke who is obviously a female if she was married to William Landon. (I doubt they had same sex marriages in those days.) So it looks like this unusual name (in today's world anyway), "Experience" was either male or female. Is this correct or am I confused? Esther Snively in San Jose, California