Emmeline Brookes

Emeline Brookes

• Parents: Henry Brookes, Jane (Joane)
• Siblings: Lydia Brookes Dorothy Langford (born Brookes), Jane Brookes

Not named in Henry Brookes 1662 will so presumed deceased before then.

notes

!31 May 1650: Henry Brooke, 658 acres Northumberland Co. 31 May, 1650; p. 225; N. E. upon Potomack River; S. E. upon Cr. dividing this from land of Nathaniel Pope Grant; N. W. upon Cr. dividing this from land of Hercules Bridges. Trans. of 13 persons. Henry Brooke, David Whitliff, Emanuel Brooke [SIC: Em, female], Jane Brooke, Jane Brooke, Robert Whitliffe, Lydia Brooke, Alice Whitliffe (also spelled Wickliffe in same patent). Nugent, Nell Marion,-"Cavaliers and Pioneers", consisting of Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1625-1680. Dietz Printing Co, Richmond 1934.

!3 Feb 1662/63: Brooks, Henry, shipwright. Will, Westmoreland Co., VA, 21 June 1662, 3 Feb 1662, My wife Joane to be extx; my daughter Dorothy Brooks; my grandchild Lidia Abbington daughter of Lawrence Abbington; to Henry Saxton my godson and his father Nicholas Saxton; my daughter Jane Higden; my daughter Lidia Abbington; Richard Cole to be overseer. From Virginia County Records, Westmoreland Co, edited by Crozier, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1971, page 3.

The will of Richard COLE, Parish of Appomattox, Westmoreland Co VA, dated 4 Nov 1663, proved 27 Apr 1664 made bequests to Widow BROOKS, Nicholas SAXTON; €œmy god daughter, Jane, the wife of Richard HIGDEN; Thomas WEBB; with the widow BROOKS to be exx. Witnesses: John BROOK and John BELL. (Westmoreland Co, VA Wills, 1654-1800, Augusta B. Fothergill, Appeals Press, 1925; SHP reprint, Easley, SC, 1982)

See the screenshot captured from Ancestry.com of the marriage of Henry Brookes, Shipwright and his wife Joane House in 1634. Further research on the records of this parish reveals the births of daughters Eve, Em, and Lydia Brookes in 1637, 1638 and 1639 respectively. I have not yet found a record for the daughter Jane, which may not have happened in the same parish. This should help straighten out any confusion on this line.

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thamm&id=...
• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-208824241-4-22826/emel...