News:
Now in the library; "Genealogy of the Cooke and Cook family". New under the Moments in Time section: my "I Love Me Wall". (purely self-indulgent, I know.)
It was commonly believed that John the was the son of Matthew Randall, ?Lord Mayor? of the City of Bath, Somerset, England. It has been determined that John could not have been the son of Matthew. His son grew up to become the head of the Draper's Guild in London and he lived his entire life in England.