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Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Vincent Gookin (d. 1638) and his 1st w. Mary, da. of --- Wood of Waldron, Glos.C.R. Hudleston, ‘Sir Vincent Gookin of Highfield, Glos.’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. lxiv. 113-14, 117. m. Mary, da. of James Salmon of Glandore, co. Cork, s.p.NAI, Thrift Will Abstract 2829; Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ire. (1958), 622. suc. fa. Apr. 1638.PROB11/176/450. d. 20 Oct. 1659.Eg. 2395, f. 180.
Offices Held

Military: capt. (parlian.) regt. of ?Nathaniel Fiennes I*, c.July 1643.Mems. of Prince Rupert, ii. 260.

Local: commr. levying of money, Glos. 3 Aug. 1643. 9 July 1646 – Mar. 1660A. and O. J.p.; Som. by 19 Dec. 1648-Mar. 1657.C231/6, pp. 51, 130, 360; Names of the Justices (1650), 24, 48 (E.1238.4).

Irish: commr. revenue, co. Cork bef. Oct. 1651;SP28/71, f. 131; Eg. 1762, ff. 202, 207v. assessment, 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). Member, cttee. for approbation of ministers, co. Cork 24 Apr. 1655.StJ.D. Seymour, The Puritans in Ire. (Oxford, 1921), 90. Commr. distributing forfeited lands to army, Ireland 7 July 1656;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 600. security of protector, Ireland 7 Nov. 1656;A. and O. revenue, c.1656. Surveyor-gen. c.1658.T.C. Barnard, ‘Lord Broghill, Vincent Gookin and the Cork elections of 1659’, EHR lxxxviii. 357.

Central: commr. admlty. and navy, 3 Dec. 1653.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Kinsale, co. Cork 15 Jan. 1659.Council Bk. of the Corp. of Kinsale, 1652–1800 ed. R. Caulfield (Guildford, 1879), 44.

Parlimentarian
GOOKIN, Vincent (c.1616-59), of Garrane and Ballincorn, Barrymore Barony, co. Cork.
: of Garrane and Ballincorn, Barrymore Barony, co. Cork.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

GOOKIN, Vincent (c.1616-59), of Garrane and Ballincorn, Barrymore Barony, co. Cork.

Will
admon. 17 Jan. 1660.NAI, Thrift Will Abstract 2829.
Estates
inherited land in Brean Down, Som., Highfield, Upton Cheyney, Glos. (until 1646).PROB11/176/450; Hudleston, ‘Sir Vincent Gookin’, 115. Leases of Kilbottery and Ballinchil, Great Island, and Garrane and Ballincorn, barony of Barrymore, co. Cork, Apr. 1653; fee simple of same granted June 1654.SP63/287, f. 61; CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 803; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 354. Acquired ‘farm’ of govt. property, Youghal bef. Jan. 1659.Chatsworth, CM/30, no. 65.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Whitehall lodgings by July 1653-Apr. 1654 Somerset House, Apr. 1654.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 70.
Religion
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