Frederick W. Chesson					    File: COOK-GEN.HTM
Waterbury, CT  06710						Rev: 2-25-2000

			COOK(E) FAMILY GENEOLOGY 

Henry Cook 	Parents: Edmond Cook? & ?

		Born: 6-20-1615 at Blythe (Durham?)/ Doncastor, Yorkshire
		Came to Salem, Mass. 1638
		Trade: Butcher/Slaughterer, perhaps also a tanner.
		Married Judith Birdsall, 6-16-1639
		Children: all by J.B.  see below 
		Died: Dec. 25, 1661 at Salem, aged 46.

Judith Birdsall  Mother:  NA
		 Father:  Henry Birdsall, born c 1586 at Malton, Yorkshire
					  to Salem c 1632
			   		  died Sept., 1651 in New Haven, Conn.

		Born 1609/1619 at Ely, Cambridge?
		Came to Salem c 1632
		Married Henry Cook 1639
		Children:  Henry, Jr., Isaac, John, Samuel
	        Died: Sept 11, 1689 in Salem, aged 70/80

Children:	Henry....
		Samuel  B: 1641

Samuel Cook     B: 1641
	        M: Hope Parker  5-26-1650 + c 1689
		D: 1702
Children:	Samuel (Jr.)
	
Samuel (Jr.)    B: 3-3-1668
                M: Elizabeth Bedell   no info
		D: 9-1725
Children:       Moses  B: 1716

Moses		B: 11-6-1716
		M: Saraha Culver  12-23-1716 + 1-4-1760
		M: Dinah Harrison (widow) 6-1762
	Came to Waterbury about 1751.
		D: 12-12-1771 (killed by Moses Paul, Indian, in Bethany)
Children:	Moses (Jr.)  plus several by two wives

Moses (Jr.)	B: 5-30-1744	(Drummer in Revolutionary War)
		M: Jemima Upson  (7-1764 + 3-6-1821)
		D: 12-28-31

Children:	Joseph....

Joseph		B: 11-4-1767
		M: Anna Bronson 12-26-1770 + 11-26-1855 
		D: 11-26-1855 (she Died 10 hours later)
Children:	Nathan....

Nathan		B: 1-8-1804  (Cooke)
		M: Clarissa E. Reynolds (7-4-1807 + 10-27-1892)  May 31, 1826
		D: 10-26-1892  (she died 27 hours later)

Children:	Walter Harte Cooke (only child)

Walter Harte    B: 9-30-1835
		M: Jane D. McClintock (B. NYC 11-15-1837 + 12-22-1904)
		D: 2-18-1909

	They had two children, Frederick Scoville and Clarissa Whiting:

Son:		Frederick Scoville  10-22-1872 + 8-26-1935
		M: Ellen A. Benham Oct. 2, 1900  

Frederick Scoville Cooke married Ellen A. Benham at Trinity Church, Waterbury,
on Tuesday, October 2, 1900.  Rev. Frederick D. Buckley, Rector of Trinity, 
officiated.  Witnesses were: Benjamin Chatfield and Edith Benham, a sister.

Children:	Louise Judson Cooke  11-14-1904 + 3-23-1988

Daughter:   Clarissa Whiting  B. 11-24-1866, Reynolds Bridge, CT. D 8-1-1949 
	    Married Frederick W. Chesson  (B London 6-7-1864. D 12-20-1905 Wby)
	    on 9-29-1887 in Waterbury.

Children:	Frederick William  6-17-1888 + 12-15-1944  (1 son) *
		Walter Hart	   6-20-1889 +  2-10-1972  no issue
		Robert Begg        1-14-1894 +  10-4-1969  (2 dau.)
	        Sterling Eastwood  4-16-1901 +   6-6-1951  (adpt. dau.)	

Frederick W. Chesson married Beatrice M. Olson on 9-23-23 at St. John's Church,
Waterbury, by the Rev. John Lewis, DD, Rector.

Parents of Beratrice M. Olson:  August Olson & Karen Asp (born in Sweden)
Children:  Beatrice (11-7-91 + 12-26-82)
	   Victor Olson (1-28-96 + 9-63)  not married

*  Frederick W. Chesson, Jr. (IV)  B: 12-26-1929