Hester Mahieu

1582 - 1666  (83 years)

• Name	Hester Mahieu
  Born	3 Jul 1582	Canterbury, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	LHVB-P72
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHVB-P72
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	16220034
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16220034
  Group	John Constable Family Research
  	People Associated with the family of Dr. John Davidson Constable
  Died	18 Jun 1666	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
  Person ID	I102500	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Jacques Jan Le Mahieu,   b. 4 May 1559, Burgundy, France ,   d. 30 Jun 1603, Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands  (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Jean Leman,   b. Abt 1563, Rouen, ____, Haute-Normandie, France ,   d. Apr 1609, Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Family ID	F9599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Cooke, of the Mayflower,   b. Aft Aug 1582, England ,   d. 7 Apr 1663, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Married	5 Jul 1603	Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  Children	1. Jane Cooke,   b. Abt 1604, Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. Bef 1641  (Age ~ 36 years)   2. John Cooke,   b. 20 May 1608, Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 23 Nov 1695, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 87 years)   3. Jacob Cooke,   b. 1618, Netherlands ,   d. 7 Jul 1676, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age 58 years)   4. Hestor Cooke,   b. Between Aug 1623 and 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. Between 9 May 1669 and 8 Jun 1691, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 45 years)   5. Mary Cooke,   b. Between Mar 1624 and 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 21 Mar 1713/14, Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2016
  Family ID	F38398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 3 Jul 1582 - Canterbury, Kent, England Married - 5 Jul 1603 - Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Died - 18 Jun 1666 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  From FindaGrave: Came to America on the ship Anne in 1623. She was of Walloon (French Protestant) stock but came to Leyden, Holland from Canterbury, England where there was a Walloon church, in the records of which the name of Mahieu was common. The marriage intentions state Hester Mahieu was from Canterbury, England and she was accompanied by her mother, Jennie Mahieu and her sister Jennie Mahieu. In his book "Hypocrisie Unmasked", Edward Winslow stated she was a "Walloone" and came from the French "Mayflower Descendant" 27:145 shows she was admitted to the French Reformed Church in Leiden in 1603. "Take notice of our practie at Leyden, viz. that one Samuel Terry was received from the French Church there, into communion with us; also the wife of Francis Cooke being a Walloone, holds communion with the Church at Plymouth , as she came from the French, to this day, by virtue of communion of churches." [Winslow's "Hypocrisie Unmasked" in "Mayflower Descendant" 27:64] Daughter of Jacques and Jenne/Jeanne (___) Mahieu, Walloon refugees from the area around Lille (now in France). If 19 at marriage and 42 at the birth of her last known child about late 1626, then Hester was born about 1584 and thus was about two years younger than her husband. As Hester was about 82 in 1666, it seems likely she died closer to 1666 than to 1675. Hester Mahie was admited to communion in the Walloon church by confession of faith on June 1, 1603, about a month and a half before her marriage.