Born ‎24 Aug 1526 Romford,Essex, died ‎05 Apr 1589 Burghley House‎, 62 years, buried ‎21 Apr 1589 Burghley House,Westminsterabbey
Mildred COOKE - b. Aug. 24, 1524, Romford, Essex; d. Apr. 5, 1589,Burghley House. Daughter of Sir Anthony COOKE and Anne FitzWILLIAM. JonCulverhouse, Manager,Burghley, writes thast "Sir William Cecil didindeed marry Mildred Cooke. Theyhad 6 children: 3 who died in childhood,Robert who became Lord Salisbury, adaughter, Anne and a second daughter,Elizabeth Spelling variations include: Cheek, Cheeke, Cheeks, Cheke, Chick, Chicke,and others. First found inSuffolk where they were recorded as a family of greatantiquity seated at Debenham with manor and estates in that shire. Some of the first settlers of thisname or some of its variants were:Phillip Cheeke who settled in the Barbados in1685; Henry Cheeke settledin Philadelphia in 1823; John Cheeke arrived in NewYork in 1823; GeorgeCheek settled in Potomac Maryland in 1742. and others.

Born ‎13 sep 1520 Burghley,Bourne,Lincolnshire,England, died ‎04 Aug 1598 Burghley House,Strand,Co Middlesex,England‎, 77 years
Cheif advisor during reign of Elizabeth I. Name Suffix: Baron REFN: ems Name Suffix: Baron Name Suffix: Baron 1 NAME Lord /Burghley/ 2 GIVN Lord 2 SURN Burghley Also spelled Burleigh-but I defer to the Oxford University Press spelling He was High Treasurer and Prime Minister of England. He was ElizabethI's chief minister until the day of his death. Accordingto "The Cecils of Hatfield House An EnglishRuling Family" byDavid Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: He may have had a child out ofwedlock by age 14 With hisfather's help he became an MP, and a justice ofthe peace. At 27he became Master of the Requests to Edward VI, he was knighted shortlyafterward. He retired to the country during the reign of Mary Tudor.Hewas a womanizer and had frequent liassons. In 1571elizabeth I createdhim Lord Burghley, a year later, Knight of the Garter and Lord Treasurer. Lord Burghley conducted what amountedto a school for young noblemen athis estate, partlyto educate and partly to build the governing classandstrengthen Elizabeth I From Michael David Smart: "Sixty Old Master paintings drawn from thecollection ofone of England's grandest Elizabethan houses came toLakeview Museum in ItalianRenaissance and Baroque Paintings, Paintingsfrom the Burghley House Collection...This outstanding collection of 16thto 18th century paintings has remained near intact for more than 300years at Burghley House, a 750 room house located 90miles from Londonand home to 17 generations of the Cecil family. The house isthe oldesthome in England still lived incontinuously by the same family. BurghleyHouse was finished in 1587 for Sir William Cecil...Though the interiorwas remodeled in the 1690's the house remains the finest example of late16th centuryarchitechture in England..." Adrian Channing reports "1st Lord Burleigh wasv fond of maps, at a timewhen maps of 'regions' were first being produced in England. My ancestor(a Browne) sent him the first map of county Mayo, Ireland in1585, soperhaps this fondness of maps carried down to his grandson." Notall information verified and/or documented. Not all are my directline (only those denotedby *). Please use thisas a guide and contact thesource for more information. I am actively making updates and correctionsand reposting the information. With luck, this will enable cousins tocontact each other and provide eachother with more complete informationand actual documentation. I include much more than my direct linebecause of all of the intermarriages and the possibilityof finding clueson all of those women without first and last names! Do not askmeif Ihave more information-if I did I would have posted it. thanks. Haren/Anderson and Brownlees of Torfoot/Wilcox to Charlemagne; KJB; TorfootBrownlees@@Gmail.com