The GOOKINS were from Canterbury Kent. Originally GOKIN, GOCKIN or COKIN, and down to 1700 their posterity continued within 5
miles of that city. Vincent and Daniel Gookin were contemporary with Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, who was a native of Canterbury.
In 1566 Daniel Gookin founded a colony in Virginia at his own expense. Vincent came to IRELAND at his own expense. To become Sir
Vincent Gookin.

SIR VINCENT MARRIED, JUDITH, A DAUGHTER OF SIR THOMAS CROOKE BARONET, OF BALTIMORE, by whom he had two
sons Vincent and Robert. And after her decease he married again and had several children.. Upon the death of his father, Vincent
succeeded. He died without issue and was succeeded by his brother Robert Gookin. He married Mary Smith, by whom he had four
children, Vincent, Robert, Mary and Anne.

Mary married Morgan BERNARD, and had Stewart BERNARD (who married his first cousin, Dorothy Gookin, by whom he had John
BERNARD, of BERNARDS HALL and Anne married Abraham Lamb. And had Vincent Lamb (ancestor of Lambs of Kilcolman)

VINCENT GOOKIN succeeded his father, and dying issueless, his brother Robert succeeded. He married Hester Hodder and had one
son Robert. After her death, he again married and had two children, Vincent and Dorothy and dying left Robert his successor. He
married Dorothy Waller and by her left a son Robert and dying ( Major Gookin) succeeded . He married Hester Smith daughter of Percy
Smith, esq. of Headborough and dying in 1752 left 2 sons Robert and Waller. The Gookins lived for a long time in Ibane and later are
described as Courtmasherry, and many of them including Major Gookin and his 2 sons are buried in churchyard at Lislee.


Source History of Bandon C.12. Bennett.