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Subject: [COOKE] Cooke of Cooksborough, co Westmeath, Ireland
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:40:32 -0000

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Author: swresearch
Surnames: Cooke, Houston, Adair
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"Notes and Queries". by Martim Albuquerque. 1974.
p.315. Alliances between Cooke and Caulfield (and Houston) families.
"To John Houston, gent, the full benefit of a deed settlement made by the said Capt. John Cooke, 27 Dec 1665, on the marriage of his daughter Jane (Cooke) with the said (John) Houston and all his right to the premises by virtue thereof."
(15th Ann. Report on the Records of Ireland).

Capt. John Cooke was ancestor of Lord Charlemont.
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"Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1726" by David Dobson. p.56
John Houston, an Ensign at Mullingar, 25 Dec 1678.
(HMC. Ormonde #2, 216).
Mullingar, co Westmeath was near Cookesborough.

See attached townland guide c.1850 for Civil Parish of Rathconnell showing townland of Cooksborough.
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>From the online IGSI Card catalog at :

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/library/catalog/cat_geog.htm#...

for Westmeath shows -

ID Number : Frgn.IR.A132.
Townland maps County Westmeath. Nos. 1-5,
but I have not seen them.

ID Number Frgn.IR.A069
Townland maps County Meath
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There may be more information on the Cooke families
in Ireland at IGSI.

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