Author: 18TH CENTURY VELLUM DOCUMENT .
Title: Indenture between William Beale Brand, of Polstead and Reverend Thomas Cooke Of Semer, Suffolk
Description: Polstead: 10th January 1783 . 0. Large folded vellum document, between William Beale Brand, of Polstead and Reverend Thomas Cooke Of Semer. Yellowed and lightly soiled. 60cm x 90cm. All handwritten text clearly legible. ** Family history records show that : "Anna Mirabella Henrietta, baptized at St. James', Bury, on Aug. 15, 1738, was married in 1761 to William Beale Brand of Polstead in Suffolk.. William Brand died in 1799, and his widow in Feb, 18 14. There was no family, and after Mrs. Brand's death Polstead passed to Thomas William Cooke, grandson of Thomas Cooke, rector of Semer, who had married William Brand's sister.. Elizabeth Holworthy: baptised September 18, 1753, Elsworth. Married Rev.Thomas Cooke, of Elsworth, clerk, on May 13, 1777, Elsworth. Thomas was from the small village of Semer in Suffolk, where his family were the owners of the manor House and a great part of the estate in the parish.Elizabeth bore Thomas at least two children- Thomas Cooke, who became the rector of Bildeston in Suffolk, was born in Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, in 1778. He was schooled at Eton for eight years, and then attended Cambridge University 1796-1798. He became Lord of the Manor at Bildeston in 1814 when he inherited the estate from his great-uncle William B. Brand Esq. He married Mary Ann Mathews, daughter of Richard Mathews of Wargrave, Berkshire, on September 7, 1803, and died without issue on July 27, 1825, at Bentworth.

Keywords: William Beale Brand and Rerverand Thomas Cooke of Polstead, Suffolk Vellum: : 18th Century


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