Lucy Cocke

AUDITED 3 Aug 2026 - CONFLICT: WHICH WARING DID LUCY COCKE MARRY? DO NOT CITE HER AS FRANCIS WARING'S WIFE. The tree holds [1760] as wife of [1759] Col. Francis Waring (F539). The evidence divides (worksheet ancestry/waring-contradiction-resolution-2026-08-03.md, read 3 Aug 2026): (1) VMHB 4 (1897), listing Secretary William Cocke's five children, has "Lucy Cocke, who married Colonel THOMAS Waring" - and in total four printed sources make her Thomas's wife, against Jones alone for Francis. (2) Against even that, a 1742 Essex deed makes Thomas Waring's wife Elizabeth Gouldman - a connection the place-name "Gouldsberry" in Thomas Waring's 1803 will (chancery 057-1817-002) itself carries. (3) Francis Waring's own will, codicil and probate (Essex Will Book 12 pp. 431-433, read on the register image 3 Aug 2026) name NO wife; the "Cocke land" devised there is a tract name, not a wife. State: Lucy Cocke is real and married a Waring of Essex; WHICH Waring is unresolved; the marriage to Francis in this tree is the minority reading. Recorded as a conflict, deliberately WITHOUT a citation - attaching one would pick a winner the records have not.