Notes for Thomas Brooke, 5th: "Robert Brooke, son of Thomas and Mary (Foster) Brooke, was born 3 Jun 1602 in Battel, Hastings, Sussex, England, and died 20 July, 1663, inBrooke Place, Battle Creek, MD. He married (1) 25 February, 1627, in Battel ,Hastings, Sussex, England, Mary Baker; and he married (2) 11 May, 1 633,in Hastings, England, Mary Mainwaring. He and Mary Baker had fourchildren, Baker, Mary, Thomas and Barbara. Mary Mainwaring, daughter ofRoger Mainwaring, DD, and Dean of Worcester. Mary was born at St. Gilesin the Field, London. Robert and Mary Mainwaring had elev en children:Charles, Roger, Robert, John, William, Mary, Ann, Francis, Basil (died ininfancy), Elizabeth and Henry (twins and the only of their children whowere born in Maryland." "The accounting of the children of this last family were given byRoger, second oldest, in his own handwriting. Charles I, King of England, issaid to have stayed at the home of Robert Brooke, and his wife, MaryMainwaring, just before the Battle of Newberry in 1644, during the CivilWar in England. "Robert Brooke first settled at De la Brooke Manor on the west bank ofthe Patuxent in 1650. By 1652 he had started another Manor directly acrossthe river, which he named Brooke Place. He moved there in 1653, leaving De la Brooke Manor to his oldest son, Baker, who was named Lord of De la BrookManor. For a brief period in 1652, Robert Brooke was Acting Governor ofMaryland, after becoming President of the Maryland Provincial Council.He was also appointed Commander of the newly proclaimed County ofCharles. No doubt he had a great deal to do with the naming of CharlesCounty, since he had been a close friend of Charles I . Robert Brookehad received his education at Wadam College in Oxford, matriculatingthere 28 April, 1618. There is a deed in the Land Records in the StateArchives of Maryland of 250 acres originally patented 8 June 1649 toRobert Brooke, the Progenitor of the Brooke Family in Maryland, and latersold by him to William Evans of Newtown in St. Mary's County. Thewitnesses to this deed were his sons, Charles and Roger Brooke. The landwas described as lying on the east side of St. Clement's Bay, which wouldbe Newtown Neck, adjacent to where his son, Robert settled after hismarriage to Elizabeth Thompson, i n 1656. Robert Brooke, was the son ofThomas Brooke of White Church , England, and his wife Susan Foster, thedaughter of Sir Thomas Foster, according to Raphael T. Semmes, author of"The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families."
See article in Chronicles of St. Mary's Vol 1 pg 20 re famiy and De L aBrooke Manor.
The following is posted from Family Tree Maker, CD195 Family History: MDMarriages, 1634-1820, Maryland Genealogies, Volume 1, The Brooke Family,C Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, December 26, 1998 andrepeated in MARYLAND GENEALOGIES from the Maryland Historical Magazine,Genealogi cal Publishing Co., Baltimore (1980), Vol 1, pps 92-4: "Robert Brooke was born, according to his family record "at London ,3rd June, 1602, being Thursday, between 10 and 11 of the clock in theforenoon being Corpus Christi Day." He matriculated at Wadham College,Oxford, 28 April 1618, receiving the degree of B. A. 6 July 1620, andthat of M.A. 20 April 1624 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). A man uscriptcopy of the VISITATIONS OFHAMPSHIRE (1634) in the British Museum hasunder his name the note "this Robert is a minister." He thus records hisfirst marriage: "Mary Baker, born at Battell in Sussex , Robert Brookeand Mary Baker intermarried 1627, the 25th of February, being St.Matthias' Day and Shrove Monday." This lady was the daughter of ThomasBaker of Battle, Esq., Barrister-at-law, and Mary his wife, daughter ofSir Thomas Engham of Goodneston, Kent. A pedigree of the Baker family,as entered at the Visitation of 1634, is published in Berry's SUSSEXGENEALOGIES. Mary Baker died in 1634, probably at the birth of herdaughter Barbara, and her husband, Robert Brooke, re-married thefollowing year. "May the 11th, 1635, Robert Brooke (aforementioned) wasmarried to mary, second daughter of Roger Mainwaring, Doctor of Divinity& Dean of Worcester, wh: Mary was born at St. Giles-in-the-Fields,London." "Roger Mainwaring, the father of Robert Brooke's second wife,subsequently became Bishop of St. David's, and came into collision withParliment through his over zealous advocacy of the royal prerogative .Robert Brooke arrived in Maryland 30 June, 1650, with is (second ) wifeMary, his ten children, Baker, Thomas, Charles, Roger, Robert , John,William, Frances, Mary, and Anna Brooke, and twenty-eight servants, alltransported at his own cost and charge (Md. Land Office, L ib. 1, fol.165-166; Davis' DAY STAR, p.74). With his two sons Baker and Thomas, hetook the oath of fidelity to the Proprietary, 22 Jul y 1650 (Md.Archives, iii, 256). A commission had been issued to him , dated atLondon, 20 September, 1649, as commander of a county to be newleyerected, and he had also a separate commission of the same date as memberof the Council of Maryland. He took the oath of office in the lattercapacity 22 July 1650 (Md. Archives, iii, 237, 240, 2 56). A new county,called Charles County, was duly erected and Robert Brooke was constitutedits commander, 30 October 1650 (Md. Archives , iii, 259). "When Maryland was reduced, in 1652, by the ParlimentaryCommissioners, he was placed at the head of the provisional councilinstituted by them, and served in this capacity from 29 March until 3July 1654, when an order was passed revoking his commissions andnullifying the act erecting the county, in place of which a new countywas erected called Calvert County (Md. Archives, iii, 308). According tothe Brooke family record: "He was the first that did seat the Patuxent,about twenty miles up the river at De la Brooke, and had one son there ,born in 1651, called Basil, who died the same day. In 1652 he removed toBrooke Place, being right against De la Brooke; and on the 28th ofNovember, 1655, between 3 & 4 o'clock in the afternoon had two children,Eliza and Henry, twins. "He departed this world the 20th day of July 1655, and lieth buried atBrooke Place Manor; and his wife, Mary Brooke, departed this life the29th November 1663." The careful family record kept by Robert Brooke names a number ofrelatives who served as God-parents to his children, and furnishesabundant evidence as to his connection with the English parent stoc k.This interesting family record is published in Tyler's MEMOIR OF ROGERBROOKE TANEY (pp. 22-25), where by an accidental omission the death ofRobert Brooke is placed in 1663. The date is correctly given inmanuscript copies preserved by the family." (The article concludes by naming the 15 children of Robert Brooke andhis two wives including some statistical information concerning them.)
Children of Thomas Brooke, 5th and Elizabeth are:
+Thomas Brooke, 6th, b. 1758, Maryland, d. May 07, 1790, Barnwell, Winton County, SC.
Thomas Brooke, 5th (b. 1734, d. January 09, 1789)
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