Brief Life History of John
When John Brooke was born in 1770, in Honley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Brook, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Booth, was 34. He married Priscilla Burrell on 2 August 1797, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1834, at the age of 64.
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- John Brooke, "England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887"
- John Brooke, Esq in entry for Mr Robert Emmerson, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
- John Brooke, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brook , which preserves a trace of the Old English dative singular case, originally used after a preposition (e.g. ‘at the brook’).
History: In 1650, Robert and Mary Mainwaring Brooke brought ten children and a number of servants with them from England to MD, where Robert became governor. Although the fourteen known contemporary Brooke immigrants in VA included Robert's brothers Richard and Humphrey, the relationships of the others are unknown. Brooke family memorials remain in the Anglican church at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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