Tooker:
“Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies”, p. 529, col. 2, sub TOOKER, of
Maddington, shows (summary)
Edward Tooker, esq., (d. 1688 aged 86), and was succeeded by his son,
Giles was, in 1664, created Sir Giles Tooker, 1st Baronet, of Maddington
(d.s.p. 1675, [sic, so what did his son succeed him in?]).
Sir Giles had sisters, who were his eventual co-heirs
1. Martha Tooker, m. Sir Walter Ernle, 2nd Bt, of Etchilhampton, Wilts.
2. Philippa Tooker, m. Sir Thomas Gore, Kt, of Barrow, Somerset
EDB states that the mother of all three was Mary, daughter of Sir John
HUNGERFORD, Kt, of Down Ampney, Glos.
Elsewhere (see below), it is stated that Giles TOOKER, who matriculated at
Oxford at age 17 in 1642, the son of Edward TOOKER, was a first cousin to
Sir Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER, later 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and that Edward
TOOKER’s wife was Martha COOPER, daughter of Sir John COOPER, Baronet, of
Dorset.
This Giles Tooker (b.ca 1624/5) would appear to be about the right age to
be son of Edward TOOKER (b.ca 1601/2).
I wonder if anyone can clarify this at all?
From “HISTORY OF EXETER COLLEGE” (Publications, Oxford Historical Society),
p. cx.
“Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury was a member of Exeter College in
1637. His account of his college career is a curious contribution to the
knowledge of University life in the seventeenth century (Footnote l).
' I kept both horses and servants in Oxford, and was allowed what expense or
recreation I desired, which liberty I never much abused; but it gave me the
opportunity of obliging by entertainments the better sort, and supporting
divers of the activest of the lower rank with giving them leave to eat, when
in distress, upon my expense, it being no small honour among those sort of
men that my name in the buttery book willingly bore twice the expense of any
in the University (Footnote 2).
1=Autobiography quoted in Christie's Life of Shaftesbury.
2= I doubt if this is literally the fact. In the Buttery Book for 2 June
1637 (twelfth week of fourth term) ' Barronet Cooper ' pays 13s 1d’, …
University Reg. 24 Mch 1636/7 'Anto’ Ashley Cooper, Dorcester. de St Aegid.
Wimbourne in Comitatu predicto baronettus annos natus 15.'
He was admitted to the Fellows' table 4 Mch 1636/7 on paying £6 caution,
and his name continued on the books until 13 July 1638; his brother George
matric. 1 Ap. 1642 age 17. … Cooper's aunt, Martha, married Edward Tooker of
Maddington in Wilts (Hutchins iii. 594). John Toker had his name on the
books from 31 Oct. 1635 to 20 July 1638 when he was a bachelor (B.A. 34 Oct.
1637), but he belonged to a Cornish family. Giles Tooker son of Edward
Tooker of Salisbury, Shaftesbury's cousin, matric. 1 Ap. 1642 age 17. “
Thanks in advance for any help.
Richard