Hester le Mahieu
- Born: 1582-1588, Canterbury, Kent, England 575
- Marriage: Francis Cooke on 4 Jul 1603 in Leyden, Holland 575
- Died: Between 8 Jun 1666 and 18 Dec 1666, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, British American Colonies 575
- Buried: Burial Hill, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
 Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 575
Hester le Mathieu was likely born in Canterbury, England. The exact day is not know, but the author of his genealogy for the Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, The First Generations, calculated that she was born sometime between 1582 and 1588. He also calculated her death to be sometime around 1666.
Hester was likely the daugther of Jacques and Jeanne le Manhieu who were French Protestants (Calvanist). They had moved from France to England for safety sometime before Hester's birth where they lived until they moved to the Leyden area in the 1590s. The Mathieu family were from the area around Lille, now part of France.
~Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, p. 1
• Dates & Events. 575
Hester and her other children, Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester did not leave Holland with Francis and John. The arrived in 1623 on the ship named Anne.
• Children. 446
John, baptized Leyden Walloon Church on January-March 1607, m. Plymouth 28 March 1634 Sarah Warren, daughter of fellow Mayflower passenger Richard Warren
Child, buried, Leyden 20 May 1608
Jane b. say 1609; m. Plymouth in abt 1627 Experience
Elizabeth, baptized 26 December 1611
Jacob, b. abt 1618 ; m. (1) Plymouth shortly after 10 June 1646 (marriage contract) Damaris Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins; m. (2) Plymouth 18 November 1669 Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff, daughter of Thomas Lettice and widow of William Shurtleff
Hester, b. abt 1620; m. Plymouth in 1644 Richard Wright
Mary, b. Plymouth about 1625; m. Plymouth 26 December 1645 John Tompson
Hester married Francis Cooke on 4 Jul 1603 in Leyden, Holland.575 (Francis Cooke was born after Aug 1582 in Blyth, York, England 575 and died on 7 Apr 1663 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, British American Colonies 575.)
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Marriage Record. 57
Francis Cooke is recorded in the Leiden Municipal Archives as "Franchoijs Couck, bachelor form England with the occupation as woolcomber." His witnesses were Phillippe de Veau and Raphael Roelandt. Hester's wistnesses were her mother and sister who were both named Jeanne Mahiel.
~Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, p. 2
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