[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the old house of the
Cokes of Trusley, a family of considerable antiquity. The elder line
became extinct in 1718. The present family are descended from the
Cokes of Suckley in Worcestershire. The Cokes were originally of
Staffordshire, but settled in Derbyshire in consequence of a match
with one of the coheiresses of Odingsells of Trusley, in the middle
of the fifteenth century.
There is a younger branch of this family at Lower Moor, in
Herefordshire. The Cokes of Melbourn were also a younger branch,
from whom the Lambs, Viscounts Melbourne, were descended.
See Lysons, lxxxi.
ARMS.--_Gules, three crescents and a canton or_.
Present Representative, Edward Thomas Coke, Esq.