A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
, John Cookson, esq. who purchased, in1745, the estate of Whitehill, in the pala-tine of Durham. He espoused Elizabeth,eldest daughter and co-heir of Thomas Lut-widge, esq. of Whitehaven, in Cumberland,by whom he acquired landed property inthat county,* and had issue,i. Isaac, his heir. II. John,… … This family came originally from Settle,in Yorkshire, where it held the same pa-ternal inheritance for upwards of threehundred years, by the alternate names ofBrian and Robert; see pedigree of Cook-son, in Thoresbys History of Leeds. William Cookson, the immediate ances-tor of the Cooksons, of…
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