Jane "Jean" Brooks

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Jane "Jean" Brooks (May)

Also Known As: "Jean", "Jean Brooks", "Jean May"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chatham, North Carolina
Death: February 15, 1833 (103-104)
Jones, GA, United States
Place of Burial: Wilkes, Georgia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John May, of Chatham County; Jane May and Jane Williams
Wife of John "Narsin" "Winnifred""The Immigrant" Brooks, II and John Brooks, Jr.
Mother of Isaac T Brooks; Joab Brooks; Lt James "May" Brooks, "Revolutionary War"; ✫ JOHN HANNA BROOKS, JR.; Micajah McGreggor Brooks and 15 others

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About Jane "Jean" Brooks

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/May-575

Jane "Jean" Brooks formerly May

  • Born about 1729 in Chatham, North Carolina
  • Daughter of John May and J
  • Sister of Sarah (May) Sutton, Sealy (May) Orrick [half], Milly (May) Holliday, John May Jr, William May, Joseph B. May Sr. and James M. May
  • Wife of John Brooks Jr. — married 1747 [location unknown]
  • Mother of Susannah Brooks, John Hannah Brooks, Joab Brooks, Micajah Brooks, James Brooks and Baalam Brooks
  • Died 15 Feb 1833 at about age 104 in Warren County, Georgia

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7XB-771/jane-may-1729-1833

When Jane May was born in 1729, in Chatham, North Carolina, British Colonial America, her father, John May, was 19 and her mother, Jane Williams, was 13. She married John Preston Brooks Jr in 1747, in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 15 February 1833, in Jones, Georgia, United States, at the age of 104, and was buried in Wilkes, Georgia, United States.


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Jane "Jean" Brooks's Timeline

1729
1729
Chatham, North Carolina
1745
1745
1746
1746
Warren County, Georgia, United States of America
1748
July 20, 1748
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States of America
1748
Chatham, North Carolina, United States
1748
Chatham, North Carolina, United States
1753
1753
South Carolina
1753
Fayetteville, Chatham, North Carolina, United States