 Thomas Brooke, Hon., son of Richard Brooke and Elizabeth Twyne.Born 1561, died Sep 17, 1612 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England, 50 or 51 years REFN: 2307 Colonial Families in the U.S.: THOMAS BROOKE b 1561; d. at Whitchurch, England, 17th September, 1612; matriculated 24th November, 1581, at New College, Oxford; B.A., 4th May, 1584; was a barrister and of the Inner Temple, 1595; bencher, 1607; Member of Parliament for Whitchurch, England, 1604-11; m. Susan FOSTER, buried, 18th September, 1612; dau. of Sir Thomas and Susan (FOSTER) FOSTER, Knt. of Hernsdon, Herts.; Judge of the Common Pleas. Volume 5 page 79 states that Thomas Brook was buried at Whitchurch, England 17th September, 1612, and his wife the following day. A marble tomb upon which their sculptured figures lie side by side in in the Church at Whitchurch, England Married ± ABT. 1597 at England (approximately 15 years married) to:  Susan Forster, Lady, daughter of Thomas Forster, Sir Knight and Susan Foster.Buried Sep 18, 1612 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England REFN: 2308 The Hon. Thomas Brooke married, in 1590, Susan, daughter of Thomas Foster (Forster), Judge of the Court of Common Please, and nice of Robert Foster, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The Fosters were a branch of the ancient family of Etherstone, in the County of Durham. Thomas and Robert Foster were grandsons of Alexander Comyns, Earl of Bucan, who was descended from Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, a Magna Carta Baron, and also from David I, King of Scotland, son of Malcolm III, who married Margaret, daughter of Edward, the outlaw, son of Edmund Ironside, Saxon King of England. King David's grandfather, Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth, and this royal line goes back without a break to Fergus II, King of Scotland, A.D., 404. REFN17816 Children: 1. Elizabeth BrookeBorn 1598 REFN: 2395 2. Thomas BrookeBorn 1599, buried Jan 25, 1665 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England REFN: 2388 Thomas, eldest son & heir, b. 1599; matriculated at Oriel College, 27th October, 1615; a barrister-at-law; buried at Whitchurch, England 25th January, 1665. 3. Frances BrookeBorn ± ABT. 1601 REFN: 2396 4. Richard BrookeBorn ± ABT. 1601 REFN: 2389 5. Robert Brooke, CommanderBorn Jun 3, 1602 at England, died Jul 20, 1655 at Calvert Co., MD, 53 years, buried at Brooke Place Manor, Maryland Alias: REFN: 2145 Colonial Families in the U.S.: COMMANDER ROBERT BROOKE, the emigrant ancestor, arrived in Maryland, 30th June, 1650, with his second wife, Mary MAINWARING, ten children and twenty-eight servants, all transported at his own cost. He was the son of Hon. Thomas BROOKE, and Susan FOSTER, and was b. in Lond, 3d June, 1602; d. 20th July 1655, and is buried at Brooke Place Manor, Maryland; matriculated at Waldham College, Oxford, 28th April, 1618; B.A. 6th July, 1620; M.A. 23d April, 1624; Commission issued to him in London, 20th September, 1650, to erect a new County in Maryland, called Charles, of which he was constituted Commander; made Member of the Council the same day; Head of the Provisional Council under Cromwellian Government 29th March to 3d July, 1652, Acting Governor, 1652. Bozman says he was a Puritan, and Allen that he was a High Church Protestant; certain it is that he stood high in the confidence of the CROMWELL party; m. (firstly) 25th February, 1627, Mary BAKER, dau. of Thomas BAKER of Battell, Barrister at Law, and Mary ENGHAM, his wife, dau. of Sir Thomas ENGHAM of Goodneston, Kent, she died in England, 1634; m. (secondly) Mary MAINWARING, d. 29th November, 1663, dau. of Roger MAINWARING, D.D., Dean of Worcester, and Bishop of St. Davids. He and his sons, Baker & Thomas took the oath of fidelity to the Proprietary, July 22, 1650. He is said to have been the first to settle on the Patuxent River, twenty miles up at De la Brooke. In 1652 removed to Brooke Place, adj. De la Brooke. A lineal descendent of King Fergus II. He emigrated on his own ship and lived only five years after his arrival in Maryland. Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families: ARMS--Checqui or and azure, on a bend gules, a lion passant of the first. CREST--A demi-lion rampant or erased gules. 6. John BrookeBorn 1605 REFN: 2390 Matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, 11th May, 1621. 7. Humphrey BrookeBorn Dec 18, 1608 REFN: 2392 8. William BrookeBorn ± ABT. 1609 REFN: 2391 9. Charles BrookeBorn ± ABT. 1611 REFN: 2393 10. Susan BrookeBorn ± ABT. 1612 REFN: 2394 | |||