Greetings.
This issue: the timelines of the pedigrees in the Visitations are WAY off. Case in point: Robert Cooke of Carswell, Oxfordshire.
He made his will 5 Aug 1548, probated 28 Apr 1551.
He names his wife Elizabeth, eldest son and heir Thomas, and sons Allan and Nicholas. ALL sons are not yet 21.
He devised the "manor of West burton in the counttie of Sussex called the Hall Place" to Elizabeth. She was a DREWE form Oxfordshire.
In 1579 a nuncupative will is presented for Robert Cooke, and in 1580 Elizabeth Young alias Cooke makes her will. She names her sons Allan and Nicholas. NOTE: Viz of Sussex shows eldest son Thomas as "ob coelebs" (died unmarried without heirs).
Robert is supposed to be the son of Edward-Edmund Cooke and Miss Umpton, and grandson of Richard Cooke who married Margaret Hall of "Hall Place".
The Histories say that "Richard and Margaret were married in the late 16th C and built Cooke Place/Hall Place about 1588"............??!!
If I estimate what SHOULD be the birth dates for Robert, his father Edward-Edmund, and his grandfather Richard, I am back into the 1400s. Remember: none of Robert's sons were yet 21years in Aug 1548, so they had to have been born between 1528-1548. That pushes Robert's birth back to 1500-1520ish.
What is going on here?
IF I could find dates for Edward-Edmund, or for "Miss Umpton's brother, Sir Thomas", I may figure this out.
Jim Cooke