Today’s surname is Cooke, the name of one of my 5th great-grandmothers.
4. John William McCauley
8. Joseph Smith Lanier
16. William Washington Lanier
32. James Lanier
64. Nathaniel Lanier
129. Mary Cooke
Married James Lanier abt. 1746, Brunswick County, Virginia
258. Henry Cooke
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Are you following the article: The Bassano Family by Cameron Allen in The Genealogist (beginning in the Spring 2009 Issue? They are ancestral to the Laniers of Virginia.
Thanks Martin. I have not seen it but will add to my to do list. We just proved that my grandfather was a Lanier last year so I have only worked on the more recent generations so far. I have read a little of the “early” information about the Lanier family, enough to know of the Bassano connection and that both families were musicians.