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I was wondering has anyone found an actual record that confirms Elizabeth Crooke was the daughter of Roger Crooke of Hammersmith England? I recently came across Roger Crooke's Will in google books. The Will was proved 2 March 1638-1639 which meant he would have died right? In it he named as his heirs his 3 daughters, Rebecca, Mary & Ruth and his four sons, Walter, Christopher, John & Samuel. He did not mention a daughter named Elizabeth in his Will. And our Elizabeth Crooke would have been alive at this time. Also it looks like he lived and died in London. There is no mention of him owning property in Massachusetts.
At NEHGS I found mention of an article in The Register about Rebecca Crooke's ancestry. I'm not sure how to get into the article, I will have to check and see if I have this copy of the Register. But it mentions something about the baptism records of most of her siblings being discovered in London.
So who is Elizabeth Crooke? Was she born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1624 or earlier. And if she was born in Roxbury in 1624 or earlier wouldn't this make her a Native American as the Roxbury-Boston area was not settled by English colonists until about 1630? So where did the info she was born in Roxbury, Mass come from?
When I was a little girl my grandfather Guild told me that John Guild, the first Guild, to come to America married a Wampanoag woman. He also told me the Guilds were Scottish which seems to have been disproved. Anyway, back to the marriage story. There is a older post on the ancestry.com messageboard under Crooke where someone claims that Elizabeth Crooke's name was anglicanized and she was Algonquin indian. And a while back I found a website called "Mike Guild's Home Away from Home" and he also claimed Elizabeth Crooke was an "anglicanized Algonquin". Unfortunately the website is gone and neither person responded to inquiries. Though from info given on his site, I was able to trace Mike's Guild ancestry and if I remember correctly Mike & my Guild lineage went through the first 3 generations, John-1, Deacon John-2 and John-3 before branching out in different lines.
At the time Elizabeth would have lived in Roxbury, some of the "indians" were being anglicanized. When the colonists settled in the Boston-Roxbury area, one of the colonists with them was John Eliot. He is known as "the apostle to the indians". He converted many of the "indians" to christianity and set up villages of "praying indians". He translated the bible into a written Algonquin language. It is documented that Elizabeth transferred her membership from the Roxbury congregation a while after her marriage. If she was an "indian" would she have been a member of the Roxbury congregation? ????
Does anyone have any ideas about any of this?
Elizabeth's ancestry isn't settled to me. (Or for other members of my family who want me to prove my grandfather and his sister's claims.) So if anyone has proof of her ancestry would you please share it with me so I can put this to rest.
Thanks. Vicky *:)
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