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Yes, I have a copy of "Many Cookes and Their Broth," which is very useful. But I have a couple of problems with it. The Shem Cooke of the Granville, NC will written in 1792 may be the same Shem Cooke who married Ann Rucker before 1743 will of Peter Rucker. But I believe there was at least one generation in between them. The children mentioned in Shem Cooke's will of 1792 had marriage dates between 1770-1784(?) which would seem to indicate that the oldest child was born between 1750-1764, quite late for a couple that was married before 1743. Since "our" Shem Cooke (who married Temperance Blackwell Sept. 17, 1800) was born around 1773, I find it impossible that he was the son of Shem Cooke married to Ann Rucker.
So I think the link has not been established about how they are related. I am following a lead that "our" Shem was the son of James Cooke, who was the son of Shem and Ann Rucker. But "working" is the operative word. And I haven't gotten back to the parents of Shem who married Ann Rucker.
I have gathered a great deal of information about Shem and Temperance and their family and colateral families (King, Smith, West) in Georgia. Did you know that Solomon D. West (husband of Ann C. Cooke), Rowland Cooke (son of Shem and Temperance), and Gabriel Smith (ancestor of Smith line that intermarried with Cookes) all were winners in the Georgia Land Lottery of 1827. Rowland Cooke won land in Carroll County, GA, but apparently sold it because he didn't settle in Carroll County until 1850.
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