Gov. Robert BROOKE b. 3 Jun 1602 London, England d. Jul 1655 Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, British Colonial America: Our Family History

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Name	Robert BROOKE [1]
Prefix	Gov.
Born	3 Jun 1602	London, England [1]
Christened	13 Jun 1602	Singleton, Susex, England [1]
Gender	Male
Matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford University	28 Apr 1618	Oxfordshire, England [2]
	Received B.A. on July 6, 1620 and M.A. on April 20, 1624
Commission was issued to Robert as a Commander of a County in Maryland	20 Sep 1649	London, England [2]
	Had an agreement with Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, to receive a manor of 2,000 acres for every ten persons he transported to Maryland.
Immigration to Maryland	30 Jun 1650	Cheshire, England [2]
Took the Oath of Fidelity to the Proprietor	22 Jul 1650	Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
MilitaryService	30 Oct 1650	Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	Commissioned Commander of newly formed Charles County
Residence	21 Nov 1650	St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	Patented "De La Brooke" - 2,000 acres in Resurrection Manor, St. Mary's County.
Occupation	Between 1652 and 1654	Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	Provisional Council President (equivalent to Lt. Governor)
Occupation	1652	Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	Served as Colonial Governor of Maryland for several months in 1652
Residence	1652	Calvert, Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	"Brooke Place Manor" - 2,100 acres on Battle Creek, Leonard's Creek Hundred, Calvert Co., Maryland.
Occupation	29 Mar 1652	Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
	Head of the Provisional Council of Maryland
Died	Jul 1655	Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, British Colonial America [1]
At time of his death he had accumulated 8,000 acres of land.	20 Jul 1655	"Brooke Place", Calvert, Maryland, British Colonial America [2]
FamilySearch ID	LYPP-QGB
Buried	20 Jul 1655	Brooke Place Manor Cemetery, Saint Leonard, Calvert, Maryland [1]
Person ID	I594765772	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	15 Dec 2022

Father	Thomas BROOKE, b. 1561, Whitchurch, Hampshire, England , d. 13 Sep 1612, Whitchurch, Basingstoke And Deane, Hampshire, England (Age 51 years)
Mother	Susan FORSTER, b. Bef 28 Mar 1565, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 18 Sep 1614, Whitchurch, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 49 years)
Married	24 Nov 1591	Whitchurch, Hampshie, England [3]
Family ID	F536728535	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Mary BAKER, b. 25 Feb 1607, Battle, Sussex, England , d. 20 Nov 1634, Wickham, Hampshire, England (Age 27 years)

Married 25 Feb 1627 London, Middlesex, England [2]

Children

	1. Baker BROOKE, b. 16 Nov 1628, Battle, Sussex, England , bur. 1679, Calvert County, Maryland, British Colonial America (Age ~ 50 years)
	2. Mary BROOKE, b. 19 Feb 1630, Battle, Sussex, England, United Kingdom , d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Thomas BROOKE, b. 23 Jun 1632, Battel, Sussex, England , d. Bef 29 Dec 1676, Calvert, Maryland, British Colonial America (Age 44 years)
	4. Barbara BROOKE, b. 1634, Whickham, Durham, England, United Kingdom , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 15 Dec 2022

Family ID F536728530 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Mary MAINWARING, b. 1606, Camden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom , d. 29 Nov 1663, Calvert, Maryland (Age 57 years)

Married 11 May 1635 Saint Giles in the Field, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom [2]

Children

	1. Charles BROOKE, b. 3 Apr 1636, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom , d. 29 May 1671, Calvert, Maryland, American Colonies (Age 35 years)
	2. Roger BROOKE, Sr., b. 20 Sep 1637, Brecknock College, Wales , d. 8 Apr 1700, Calvert, Colony of Maryland (Age 62 years)
	3. Robert BROOKE, JR., b. 21 Apr 1639, St Bride's Church Fleet Street, London, England, United Kingdom , d. 25 Dec 1667, Calvert, Cecil, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America (Age 28 years)
	4. John BROOKE, b. 20 Sep 1640, Battle, Sussex, England, United Kingdom , d. 1675, Brooke Place Manor, Calvert, Maryland (Age 34 years)
	5. Mary BROOKE, b. 14 Apr 1642, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom , d. Maryland, British Colonial America
	6. William BROOKE, b. 1 Dec 1643, Battle, Sussex, England, United Kingdom , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 15 Dec 2022

Family ID F536728536 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

"Robert Brooke immigrated on June 30, 1649 to Charles Co., MD. He resided in 1650 at 'Brooke Place Manor', Charles Co., MD. He and Mary Mainwaring were members of Council on July 22, 1650 at Maryland. He was Acting Governor in 1652 in Maryland. He was President of Council in 1652 at Maryland." (Another excerpt from the source below)
Early life

Robert Brooke was born in Whitemarsh, Southampton on June 23, 1602, son of Hon. Thomas Brooke (1561? 1612) of Whitchurch and Susan Foster, daughter of Sir Thomas Foster (1548? 1612) of "Etherstone".[2] He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford University on April 28, 1618. He received the degree of B.A. July 6, 1620; consequently, in 1624, without further study or examination, he also received a Master of Arts degree. He was admitted to Orders,[3] but it is doubtful whether he was ever the incumbent of a parish.
The Brooke family arms were recorded in the Visitation of Hampshire, 1634.[3]
First family
Brooke married first, on February 25, 1627, Mary Baker (1602? 34), daughter of Thomas Baker of Battle in Sussex, England.[3] Robert and Mary (Baker) Brooke had four children:
Baker, married Anne Calvert, daughter of Gov. Leonard Calvert, first Governor of Maryland
Mary
Thomas, married Eleanor Hatton, daughter of Richard Hatton and wife Margaret
Barbara
Second family
Brooke married second, on May 11, 1635, Mary Mainwaring, daughter of Roger Mainwaring (1582? 1653), Dean of Worcester and Bishop of St David's, and his wife Cecilia Proper. Robert and Mary (Mainwaring) Brooke had thirteen children:[4]
Charles, never married.
Roger, married:
Dorothy Neale, daughter of Capt. James Neale and Anna Maria Gill
Mary Wolseley, daughter of Walter Wolseley and Mary Beauchamp.
Robert, married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of William Thompson and Mary Bretton.
John, married Rebecca Isaacs.
Mary.
William.
Ann, married Christopher Beanes.
Francis, never married.
Basil, died in infancy.
Henry, never married.
Elizabeth, married Capt. Richard Smith Jr.
Emigrants to Maryland[edit]

Leonard Calvert
(Florence MacKubin, 1914)
On September 20, 1649, Brooke was issued with a commission as Commander of "one whole county" (in the province of Maryland) "to be newly set forth, erected, &c".[5] He was to receive a grant of 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) for every ten persons he transported. Brooke is said to have emigrated (June 1650) aboard his own ships and at his own expense, along with his wife, ten children, 28 servants, and a pack of hounds. On July 22, 1650, along with his two sons, Baker and Thomas Sr., he took the oath of Fidelity to the Proprietor. His sons each received separate grants of land in various counties of Maryland. Robert Brooke was constituted as Commander of newly formed Charles County in Maryland on October 30, 1650.[4]
Political activities[edit]
In 1652, under the Cromwellian Government, Brooke was made Governor,[1] and served in this capacity from March 29 to July 3, 1652. His co-operation with the Bennett-Claiborne Puritan faction brought him the displeasure of Lord Baltimore and the loss of his proprietary offices. Later he allied himself with the conservative Catholic Party.
Property
Like most of the wealthy emigrants who came to Maryland under the patronage of the Proprietor, Brooke amassed many thousands of acres of land. He constructed three large estates, each named for himself:
"De La Brooke Manor" (2,000 acres (8.1 km2), granted July 28, 1650) in St. Mary's County, Maryland; now the home of a hunting club.[6]
"Brooke Place Manor" (2,100 acres (8.5 km2)) on Battle Creek, Calvert County, across the Patuxent, where he built a home almost a replica of "De La Brooke".[7]
"Brooke Court" (2,000 acres (8.1 km2)) in what is now Prince George's County.
By the time of his death on July 20, 1655,[8] Brooke is said to have accumulated 8,000 acres (32 km2) of land.
See also[edit]
Colonial families of Maryland
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Scharf, John Thomas, History of Western Maryland, p.774
Jump up ^ "The Brookes of Whitchurch"
^ Jump up to: a b c Pedigrees from the visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx a 1530 : enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx anno 1575 both which are continued with the vissitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in a 1622 most part then done & finished in a 1634. As collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1544
^ Jump up to: a b The Brooke family of Whitchurch, Hampshire, England; together with an account of Acting-governor Robert Brooke of Maryland and Colonel Ninian Beall of Maryland and some of their descendants
Jump up ^ Bozman, John Leeds, History of Maryland, Vol. 2, p376.
Jump up ^ De La Brooke Foxhounds
Jump up ^ Maryland Historical Magazine, pp 68
Jump up ^ Tyler, Samuel, Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney (out of print), p 25
References[edit]
Taney, Roger Brooke (1872). Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. John Murphy & Co.
Maryland Historical Magazine. Maryland Historical Society. 1906. Retrieved 2007-10-06.

Sources

[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Thomas BROOKE, person ID LKQ6-8J1. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Robert Brooke, person ID LYPP-QGB. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Thomas Brooke, person ID L87F-PNF. (Reliability: 3).