Vincent Gookin

Your querist "J." is referred to Berry's *Kentish Pedigrees*, where, at pp. 60. 195. 202. 207. and 113., he will find notices and a pedigree of the family *Gookin*; and therein it is shown that Vincent Gookin was the fourth son of John Gookin of Replecourt, co. Kent, by Katherine, dau. of William Dene of Kingston. In the early part of the 7th century, Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt. (why was he knighted?) was living at Highfield House, in the parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire. It appears by the register, that in 1635, Mary Gookin, Gentleman, and Samuel, son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at…