Background
Cooke was the son of John Cooke of Gidea Hall, Essex and Alice Saunders; and was a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Cook, draper, lord mayor of London 1462-3. Sometime before 1524 Anthony Cooke married Anne (d. 1553), daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam (d. 1534) and Anne Hawes, and aunt of William Fitzwilliam (1526–1599). He served as High Sheriff of Essex for 1545.
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