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Mary Brooks (Gibson)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chesterfield County, Virginia Colony, United States
Death: July 05, 1734 (29-38)
Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States
Place of Burial: Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Gibson, Sr. and Mary Gibson
Wife of Richard Brooks, of Hanover County
Mother of Massilva Mesilina Hooper; Robert Brooks; Sarah Price; John Brooks; Charles Brooks and 1 other
Sister of Eunice Nicks; John Gibson; Frances Humphrey; Thomas Gibson; Valentine Gibson, Sr. and 2 others

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About Mary Brooks

Mary (Gibson) Brooks

She was listed as the third daughter and as Mary Brook to whom she was bequeathed one shilling in her father's will of 1734. She may have been born about 1700 because of information in the Ancestral File which shows she had a son born about 1718 in Lunenburg Co., VA

Notes

!PUBLIC RECORDS: Will of Thomas Gibson St. Martin's Parish Hanover County, Virginia Thomas Gibson's Will was found on p. 42 of the booklet by Rosalie Davis and page 151-152 of the original court record book. See: "Barnabas Gibson Family History" Compiled by Mrs. Dorothy G. Tuttle, 344 Saunders St., Murray, Utah 84107, 801-266-3443 19 Sep 1994. See contents of Will on p. 1. His 6 children are named. In fathers will, To my well beloved daughter Mary [Gibson] Brook one shilling.

Origins

Thomas Gibson's wife may have been Mary Allen? Some of his children were:

  1. Frances Gibson (b. abt 1714, married Humphrey);
  2. Mary Gibson (b abt 1716, married a Brook);
  3. Thomas Gibson (b. abt 1718);
  4. John Gibson (b. abt 1720); ;
  5. Valentine Gibson (b. 1723):
  6. Eunice Gibson (b. abt 1729, married Edward Nicks or Nix)
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Mary Brooks's Timeline

1700
1700
Chesterfield County, Virginia Colony, United States
1723
1723
Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States
1725
1725
1730
1730
of, New Kent Co., Virginia
1734
July 5, 1734
Age 34
Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States
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Virginia, United States