Cooke baronets

The Cooke Baronetcy, of Wheatley Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 May 1661 for George Cooke, in recognition of his father's services during the Civil War and with remainder to his younger brother Henry, who succeeded as second Baronet in 1683.

The father of the 1st Baronet was seated at the manor of Linstead in Suffolk, held by his family since the 15th century, and acquired Broome by marriage in 1603.

[3] The 1st Baronet married twice, firstly to Mary Astley, a daughter of Thomas Astley of Melton Constable in Norfolk, by whom he had his only son and heir the 2nd Baronet; secondly he married (as her second husband) Mary Greenwood (d.1686) (whose inscribed ledger stone survives in Broome Church[4]) a daughter of William Greenwood of Burgh Castle in Suffolk and widow of William Stewart of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.

[5] The 2nd Baronet, a Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth and later for the county seat of Norfolk, married his step-sister Jane Stewart (d.1698) but died without issue in 1708 when the baronetcy became extinct.

The heir apparent to the Baronetcy is the present holder's son, George Edmund Cooke-Yarborough (b 1991).