William BROOKS, (* c. 1766)

27 MARCH 2024

PLEASE NOTE:-

On 25 MARCH 2024 the branch of William Henry Edward BROOKS, * 20 MAY 1875 was added to the family tree of William BROOKS * c. 1766 and Mary BIRD by Y. DROST and Gregory BROOKS after DNA analysis.

(Added by Y. DROST on 27 MARCH 2024)

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A Dictionary of British Surnames by P. H. REANEY, 1970. Kloof Library, Durban.

p. 49

BROOK, BROOKE, BROOKES, BROOKS, BROKE, BRUCK:

Eustace DELBROC 1130 P (Nth); Rand' DE BROC 1157 P (Ha); William DE LA BROKE 1208 Cur (Sr); Emma DE BROKES 1220 Cur (Sf); Peter ATTEBROKE 1262 For (Ess); William ABOVENTHEBROC 1276 MELS (Wo); William ATTE BROUK 1296 SRSx; William IN LE BROKE, ITHEBROKE 1317 SRC; William DEL BROKES 1332 SRLa; John BETHEBROKES 1332 SRWo. From Brook (Kent, Rutland), Brooke (Norfolk), or from residence near a stream or by the water-meadow(s). v. BROCK.

P (Nth): Pipe Rolls (Rec. Comm. 3 vols. 1833-44; Pipe Rolls Soc. (in progress); Great Roll of the Pipe 26 Hy III, ed. H. L. Cannon, 1918). Northamptonshire.

P (Ha): Pipe Rolls (Rec. Comm. 3 vols. 1833-44; Pipe Rolls Soc. (in progress); Great Roll of the Pipe 26 Hy III, ed. H. L. Cannon, 1918). Hampshire.

Cur (Sr): Curia Regis Rolls (in progress; Pipe Rolls Soc. 14, 24). Surrey.

Cur (Sf): Curia Regis Rolls (in progress; Pipe Rolls Soc. 14, 24). Suffolk.

For (Ess): Pleas of the Forest (unpublished) in PRO. Essex.

MELS (Wo): M. LÖFVENBERG, Middle English Local Surnames, Lund, 1950. Worcestershire.

SRSx: Subsidy Rolls. Sussex. (Sussex Rec. Soc. 10, 1900.)

SRC: Subsidy Rolls. Cambridgeshire (J. J. MUSKETT and C. H. Evelyn WHITE, Lay Subsidy of 1 Edw III, Cambs, n.d.)

SRLa: Subsidy Rolls. Lancashire. (Lancs and Ches Rec. Soc. 27, 31).

SRWo: Subsidy Rolls. Worcestershire. (Worcs Hist. Soc., 4 vols., 1893-1902)

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ORIGINS OF SURNAMES BROCK AND BROOKS FROM BRITAIN

A Dictionary of British Surnames by P. H. Reaney. Fourth impression 1970. ISBN 7100 2009 0.

Brock, Brocks: (i) Ralph Broc 1119 Colch (Ess); Joel le Broc 1222 Pat (D); Richard Brock 1275 SRWo. OE brocc 'badger'. From c1400 brock is often used with the epithet stinking and in the 16th century meant 'a stinking or dirty fellow' (ELPN). Or from OFr broque, brocke 'a young stag'. v. BROCKET. (ii) Laurence del Brock 1267 Abbr (So); Nigel de Brocke 1285 FA (Sx); Robert de la Brockes 1286 Ipm (Wo); Alma ate Brock', Imeyna du Brock' 1297 MinAcctCo. OE broc 'brook, stream'. For the short vowel, cf. the river-name Brock (Lancs). In Kent and Sussex, brook still means 'water-meadow' and in the plural 'low marshy ground'. Hence 'one who lives by a stream or by the water-meadow(s)'. v. MELS and BROOK.

Brook, Brooke, Brookes, Brooks, Broke, Bruck: Eustace delbroc 1130 P (Nth); Rand' de Broc 1157 P (Ha); William de la Broke 1208 Cur (Sr); Emma de Brokes 1220 Cur (Sf); Peter Attebroke 1262 For (Ess); William aboventhebroc 1276 MELS (Wo); William atte Brouk 1296 SRSx; William in le Broke, Ithebroke 1317 AssK; Sarra Bithebrok 1327 SRSo; William atte Bruck 1327 SRC; William del Brokes 1332 SRLa; John Bethebrokes 1332 SRWo. From Brook (Kent, Rutland), Brooke (Norfolk), or from residence near a stream or by the water-meadow(s). v. BROCK.

Abbreviations
Abbr Placitorum Abbreviatio, 1811
AssK Assize Rolls: Kent (B. H. Putnam, Kent Keepers of the Peace (Kent Rec. Soc. 13), 1933)
C Cambridgeshire
Colch Colchester Cartulary (Roxburghe Club), 2 vols., 1897
Ct Unpublished Court Rolls
Cur Curia Regis Rolls (in progress; Pipe Roll Soc. 14, 24)
D Devonshire
DB Domesday Book
DEPN E. Ekwall, Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, 1936
ELPN E. Ekwall, Early London Personal Names, Lund, 1947
Ess Essex
FA Feudal Aids, 6 vols., 1899-1920
For Pleas of the Forest (unpublished) in PRO
Ha Hampshire
Ipm Calendar of Inquisitiones post mortem (in progress)
K Kent
La Lancashire
Lancs ? Lancashire
MELS M. Löfvenberg, Middle English Local Surnames, Lund, 1942
MinAcctCo Ministers' Accounts of the Earldom of Cornwall (Camden 3rd Ser. 66, 68), 1942-5
P Pipe Rolls (Rec. Comm. 3 vols., 1833-44; Pipe Roll Soc. (in progress); Great Roll of the Pipe 26 Hy III, ed. H. L. Cannon, 1918)
Pat Calendar of Patent Rolls (in progress)
Sf Suffolk
So Somerset
Sr Surrey
SRC Subsidy Rolls: Cambs (J. J. Muskett and C. H. Evelyn White, Lay Subsidy of 1 Edw III, Cambs, n.d.)
SRLa Subsidy Rolls: Lancs (Lancs and Ches Rec. Soc. 27, 31)
SRSo Subsidy Rolls: Somerset (Som. Rec. Soc. 3, 1889)
SRSx Subsidy Rolls: Sussex (Sussex Rec. Sec. 10, 1900)
SRWo Subsidy Rolls: Worcs (Worcs Hist. Soc., 4 vols., 1893-1902)
StP Early Charters of St Paul's (Camden 3rd Ser. 58), 1939
Sx Sussex
Wo Worcestershire
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BROOKS ORIGINS

The surname is one of the names that was brought to England in the wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The BROOKS family lived in Essex. The name, however, derives from the family's former residence in Broc, in the area of Anjou, France. The chronicles of England, though sometimes shrouded by the mists of time, reveal from early records that the surname BROOKS was of Norman origin. Careful research by professional analysts using ancient manuscripts such as the Domesday Book, the Ragman Rolls, the Wace poem, the Honour Roll of the Battel Abbey, the Curia Regis, Pipe Rolls, the Falaise Roll, tax records, baptismals, family genealogies, and local parish and church records, determined the name BROOKS was first founded in Essex where they were granted lands by William the Conqueror for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Many alternate spellings of the name were found. They were typically linked to a common root, usually one of the Norman nobles at the Battle of Hastings.

The ancestors of the family name BROOKS are believed to be descended originally from the Norman race. The Normans were commonly believed to be of French origin but, more accurately, they were of Viking origin. The Vikings, under their Jarl, Thorfinn Rollo, invaded France in about 911 A. D. After Rollo laid siege to Paris, the French King, Charles the Simple, finally conceded defeat, granting northern France to Rollo. Rollo became the first Duke of Normandy, and Duke William, who invaded and defeated England in 1066, was in fact descended from Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy.

Duke William took a census of most of England in 1086, and recorded it in the Domesday Book. A family name capable of being traced back to his document, or to Hastings, was a mark of honour for most families during the Middle Ages, and even today.

The surname BROOKS emerged as a notable English family name in Essex. Originally from the Norman "Broc", meaning a stream near home, one of the first references was of Robert LE BROC and Ranyllph LE BROC, two knights having estates in Essex in the year 1119, and a century later Richard BROCK appears holding estates in the county of Worcestershire. Later, their names appeared again in the Rotunda Oblitus et Finibus, a census taken by King John at the signing of the Magna Carta in 1214, to determine the allegiances of the nobles throughout the land. Of the census records of the time the most popular Christian names in use by the family name were Edelina, Robertus, Alice, Laurence, William and Richard. They flourished for the next two or three centuries in the south eastern counties of England. One of the senior branches of the family name was that of Mere in Cheshire and Thomas BROOKE was Sheriff of Cheshire in 1592. Sir Richard BROOKES, his son, was knighted, and the title succeeded until about 1660. The family also branched north to Scotland to Aberdeen. James BROOKS or BROOKES (1512-1560), an English Catholic bishop. He became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1532. When Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne, he refused to follow the new religion and was deprived and imprisoned. He died a prisoner in 1560 and was buried in Gloucester Cathedral without a monument.

Of note amongst the family at this time was Richard BROOKE (died 1569), Sheriff of Cheshire in 1563, he bought the manor of Norton, Cheshire from, Henry VIII in 1545 following the dissolution of the monastries; John BROOKE, (died 1660) 1st Baron Cobham, an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1643; Sir Henry BROOKE, 1st Baronet (died 1664), an English soldier and politician; Robert BROOKE, Sr. (1602-1655), a Colonial Governor of Maryland for several months in 1652; Thomas BROOKS (1608-1680), an English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author; Sir Peter BROOKE (died 1685), an English politician, Member of Parliament for Newton (1646-1648); Major Thomas BROOKE, Sr., Esq. (1632-1676), was an American colonial lawyer, planter and politician of Calvert County, Maryland, Burgess, High Sheriff and Chief Justice of Calvert County; and Lady Elizabeth BROOKE (1601-1683), an English religious writer from Wigsale, Surrey.

The surname BROOKS contributed much to local politics and in the affairs of England or Scotland. During the 12th century many of these Norman families moved north to Scotland, following Earl David of Huntingdon who would become King of Scotland. Later, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, England and Scotland were ravaged by religious and political conflict. The unrest caused many to think of distant lands. Settlers in Ireland became known as the "Adventurers for land in Ireland," where they undertook to keep the Protestant faith, and were granted lands previously owned by the Irish. In Ireland the BROOKS settled in County Fermanagh, and the BROOKS of County Meath (Mavan) claim descent from Sir Thomas BROOKE of Leighton, in Cheshire. There is a branch of this same family in Leicestershire. About 1685, the family lost their titles in England and in Ireland. In Ireland many of the family name became ministers of the Church. The last of the Irish line was Rev. James BROOKE, rector of St. Mary's in London. In 1890, a birth census of English families in Ireland was taken. From that census, it was estimated that there were over 1,120 people bearing the surname BROOKS throughout Ireland; about 24% were living in the province of Ulster.

The Motto for the Coat of Arms translates as: By persevering.

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(Bygevoeg deur Y. DROST op 27 MAART 2024)

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SurnamesBROOKS, William - Extra Data
Additonal Information
This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

BROOKS, William - Extra Data
Written by Sue Mackay.

(member of THORNHILL's Party)

Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain Chapter One

"Nothing purticler ocured in my Life untill October 1819 wen thear was a Great talk about the Cape of Good Hope and that thear was a Gentleman coming down from London to make up a partey to go to the Cape of Good Hope and all thoues that was willing to go was to go to Mr. Wm. BROOCKS and put our names down and to recve Sixpence as ernest money and at the later end of the Month Mr. Wm. WEAIT for that was the Gentlemans name and down to Great Marlow he came before the time was expired and we ware worned to meet at they Grayhown [Greyhound] Inn at seven o'clock the same evening wen to my Great astonishment I found they Market roome quit ful."

William BROOKS Senior was the son of William BROOKS and Mary BIRD

Family Search

William BROOKS married Mary BIRD on 21 July 1784 in St.Mary's, Putney, Borough of Wandsworth

Buckinghamshire Baptism Index

Mary, daughter of William and Mary BROOKS, baptised 26 May 1785 in All Saints, Great Marlow

William, son of William and Mary BROOKS baptised 22 June 1786 in All Saints, Great Marlow

Joseph, son of William and Mary BROOKS, baptised 24 July 1788 in All Saints, Great Marlow

James Bird, son of William and Mary BROOKS, baptised 15 April 1790 in All Saints, Great Marlow

John, son of Wm. and Mary BROOKS, baptised 9 February 1792 in All Saints, Great Marlow

Gravestone of his son William says he was a native of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The Death Notice (Cape Archives) suggests a date of birth of 29 January 1810.

Death Notice (Cape Archives) for daughter Ursula Ann says that her parents were William BROOKS and Mary DREW.

Death Notice (Natal Archives) for son Joseph says he was born in Surrey on 12 February 1816

Death Notice (Cape Archives) for wife Ann shows that she had no children, and was thus the stepmother of the children who emigrated.

Buckinghamshire Burial Index

Mary BROOKS aged 36 buried 2 July 1818 in All Saints, Great Marlow

Buckinghamshire Marriage Index

William BROOKS, widower, and Ann GUPPY, spinster, were married by licence on 10 October 1818 in All Saints, Great Marlow

Witnesses: John MORRIS, Charles CLARK and Samuel PARRY [a Charles CLARK sailed with WAIT's Party]

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MARRIAGE TO MARY BIRD

21 JUL 1784 at Saint Mary, Putney, London, England

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MARRIAGE TO MARY BIRD

Family Search

William BROOKS married Mary BIRD on 21 July 1784 in St.Mary's, Putney, Borough of Wandsworth

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25 MARCH 2024

MARRIAGE

Collection Information: England Marriages, 1538-1973

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"England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKRW-24G : 12 March 2020), William Brooks, 1784.

Name William Brooks
Sex Male
Spouse's Name Mary Bird
Spouse's Sex Female
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 21 Jul 1784
Event Place Putney, London, England
Reference Items 1-3
William Brooks's Spouses and Children
Mary Bird
Wife
F

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BAPTISM OF CHILD JOHN BROOKS IN 1792

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ6K-QR4:England Births and Christenings 1538-1975:John BROOKS. Baptised 9 FEB 1792 at Great Marlow, Buckingham, England. Parents: William BROOKS and Mary NN. Residence: Great Marlow, Buckingham, England.

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