Dear Listers, Could someone please solve a mystery for me. I have the BROOKS family arriving on the "Mariner" 25 September 1847. There is no name listed for his wife but there was a MARY BROOKS...apparently a young adult on the ship and 2 other children. Would someone please try and find some details of this Mary Brooks, her marriage and perhaps children. And this in turn might mention the single name of her mother. I have never been able to make any headway with this family. One of the children I am presuming was JOSEPH BROOKS he married Martha Phillips, and this is the branch that my husband's family came from. For a while I thought the Joseph Brooks born in Launceston in 1844 was "mine", until I did my sums and realised that the family did not arrive until 1847!! In one listing it just mentions Thomas Brooks, wife and 3 children...no names. Many thanks, Sieglinde.