have a Charles brooks in my tree>> What kind of information do you have on him? Mine had three sons, James, George, and William. Jani

Chris, Thamls fpr tje information. I will keep working on it, but you have always had lots of information. I don't know how you keep on top of it and supply such quick answers to inqauiries. Wylie Brooks

The following is forwarded from another list I'm on. No other details are available. ======== Brooklyn (NY) Union Argus March 11, 1878 Obits William BROOKS, age 73, funeral tomorrow, 392 Bridge street ======== Peace and Gentle Sunsets, ~~~Pam Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus 2002

have a Charles brooks in my tree

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:10:56 -0500, Jani Wolstenholme wrote: : :I haven't had much luck accessing anything from Nova Scotia. I'll :will try the LDS again, it's been a while since I've checked them :because there wasn't much before. I'm not sure what differences there are between what's online and what's available through driving to an FHC. Something to keep in mind .. Chris

<<Is no birth certificate to be found in Halifax for Charles? Have you looked at Canadian census for Halifax? City directories? I checked the LDS catalog CD I have and there's a TON of stuff on microfilm available on Halifax, of which here's just one example:>> I haven't had much luck accessing anything from Nova Scotia. I'll will try the LDS again, it's been a while since I've checked them because there wasn't much before. Thank you, Chris! Jani

Wylie Brooks Jr. wrote: :I have received information that Samuel Brooks married Hepzibah :White 22 September 1774 Boston. This very well could be Samuel born :7 November 1754 in Medford, Massachusetts, son of Samuel and Abigail :(Hastings) Brooks. This may have been his first marriage. Can anyone :supply more information about Samuel and Hepxibah (White) Brooks? Here's the Boston marriage record: Samuel Brookes & Hephziba White | int. reads [Hepzibah] | Sept. 22, 1774 It's found in "A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809." Boston, MA: Municipal Printing Office, 1903. Digitally reproduced on CD-ROM "Early Vital Records of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, To About 1850" (Wheat Ridge, CO: Search and ReSearch Publishing, 1998). The problem is there's no further identity for either person. I guess Samuel's identity as the man b. Medford, 1754 is reasonable since you show a dau Hepsibah of his first marriage. She would be named after his first wife. But the following Medford death record poses a potential problem: Brooks, ____, w. Sam[ue]l, Jan. 2, 1783. [consump[tio]n, a. 22, C.R.1.] It's found on p. 349 of the published VR. Again, Samuel is not further identified. If both Samuels are the same man, and the unidentified decedent of 1783 is Hepsibah, and her age at death is accurate or close, then she married at about 13 years of age. The problem is always, "Which Samuel?" or "Which William" when many men of the same name are living contemporaneously. Now factor in a third wild card, found in the Concord VR, p. 251: Samll White of westford & Hepzibah Barrett of Concord was married by the Revd mr Wm . Emerson May ye 23d. 1775 This Hepzibah (Barrett) White, b. 3 Oct 1750 at Concord, was also a Brooks, the daughter of Ens. John Barrett and Lois Brooks, in the Concord line of Capt. Thomas. I've totally confused myself with these various possibilities, Wylie, but there are some clues for you to play with. Chris

I have received information that Samuel Brooks married Hepzibah White 22 September 1774 Boston. This very well could be Samuel born 7 November 1754 in Medford, Massachusetts, son of Samuel and Abigail (Hastings) Brooks. This may have been his first marriage. Can anyone supply more information about Samuel and Hepxibah (White) Brooks? Wylie Brooks

On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:56:34 -0700, Martha Heinrichs wrote: [snip] :ALSO arriving in Rock Island Co. IL at the same time is another :Brooks family from New England. This second Brooks family is: : :WILLIAM BROOKS b 1783 Boston, MA d 1864 Rock Island Co. IL m :HARRIET EAMES b NH : :Known children of Wiliam and Harriet (Eames) Brooks: William Eames :Brooks b 1819 NH d 1885 Rock Island Co. IL Jeanette Brooks b 1824 :George Brooks The IGI records the birth of a Harriet Brooks BELLOWS at Lancaster, NH, 26 Jun 1830; and the birth of a Harriet Brooks EAMES 1 Sep 1833 at Northumberland, NH. Since Northumberland (known by its village name of Groveton) is the next town northward up the Connecticut River from Lancaster, I've been inclined to consider these events somehow related despite the differing surnames. I'm sending them along because the dates and the names fit so well. Within the past couple of days I reposted a link for Hugh Wallis's IGI interface page, which allows you to search for a surname in a given locality in the British Isles and North America without a batch number. Unfortunately, a check just a moment ago indicates that the NH/US listings are spotty, and I don't see Lancaster or Northumberland there. Hugh did the UK first and has really just started coding the US batch numbers, I think, so you might want to bookmark the site and check back in a month. This link will break into two lines, which you'll need to reassemble in the address box of your browser. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.ht m#Menu :Does anyone have this William Brooks placed? Is this a :coincidence that these two Brooks men, both born in MA, arrive in :Rock Island County, Illinois at about the same time? Also, these :are the only two Brooks listed in Rock Island County, IL in the :1840 census. :Perhaps this William Brooks could be an older brother or uncle of :my Asahel Brooks. He could well be ... brothers and other family groupings often remove together. The concurrent arrival in IL is additionally suggestive. The problem with any William is, which one? At that point in time there might have been 300 men living named William Brooks, each of them descending in one or the other of the various New England lines. It's lot easier when the name is unusual, like Barnabas or Marmaduke or something. Chris

On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 15:43:58 -0500, Jani Wolstenholme wrote: :I'm still at a complete stop with my Brooks family. I'm more and :more convinced that they're from Halifax, Nova Scotia even though :my own grandfather, William Essex Brooks was definitely born in :Charlestown, MA : :My grandfather: William Essex Brooks - born July 7, 1891 to :Charles J. Brooks and Emma A. Glass : :Charles J. Brooks - the only verifiable information I have is his :death certificate - he died in Boston, MA on January 4, 1898. His :father is listed as James Brooks and Charles' birthplace as :Halifax. Emma Glass Brooks remarried (to Peter Landy), and died :Nov. 6, 1933 in Halifax where she is buried. Is no birth certificate to be found in Halifax for Charles? Have you looked at Canadian census for Halifax? City directories? I checked the LDS catalog CD I have and there's a TON of stuff on microfilm available on Halifax, of which here's just one example: Title Records, 1844-1950 Notes Microreproduction of typescript. Some reels microfilmed backwards. Some records missing. The cemetery deeds are typed transcripts. Subjects Nova Scotia, Halifax, Halifax - Vital records Nova Scotia, Halifax, Halifax - Land and property Format Manuscript (On Film) Language English Publication Nova Scotia : Public Archives, [197-?] Physical 9 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Register of burials 1844-1869, Oct. 1864-1878 FHL US/CAN Film 1017200 Register of burials 1869-Mar. 1890 FHL US/CAN Film 1017201 Cemetery deeds Bks. A-C 1844-1860 FHL US/CAN Film 1017193 Cemetery deeds Bks. D-F 1860-1870 FHL US/CAN Film 1017194 Cemetery deeds Bks. G-I 1871-1881 (no records for 1882 - Apr. 1883) FHL US/CAN Film 1017195 Cemetery deeds Bks. J-K 1883-1890 FHL US/CAN Film 1017196 Cemetery deeds Bks. L-M 1890-1935 FHL US/CAN Film 1017197 Cemetery deeds Bks. L-M 1935-1943 FHL US/CAN Film 1017198 Cemetery deeds Bks. L-M 1944-1950 FHL US/CAN Film 1017199 Chris Chris

List Members, I am still trying to place my Asahel/Asa Brooks in a New England family. My Asahel Brooks is as follows: ASAHEL/ASA BROOKS b 1800 MA married early to mid 1820's to BETSY MEARS dau of Isaac Mears formerly of MA but is in the 1820 VT census, Bennington Co. Sandgate Twp. Asahel Brooks is in the following census: 1830 NY, Saratoga Co. Concord Twp 1840 IL, Rock Island Co. The Brooks arrive in Rock Island Co. between 1835-1838. ALSO arriving in Rock Island Co. IL at the same time is another Brooks family from New England. This second Brooks family is: WILLIAM BROOKS b 1783 Boston, MA d 1864 Rock Island Co. IL m HARRIET EAMES b NH Known children of Wiliam and Harriet (Eames) Brooks: William Eames Brooks b 1819 NH d 1885 Rock Island Co. IL Jeanette Brooks b 1824 George Brooks Does anyone have this William Brooks placed? Is this a coincidence that these two Brooks men, both born in MA, arrive in Rock Island County, Illinois at about the same time? Also, these are the only two Brooks listed in Rock Island County, IL in the 1840 census. Perhaps this William Brooks could be an older brother or uncle of my Asahel Brooks. Your comments will be appreciated. Thank you. Martha Heinrichs [email protected]

Hi, Several weeks ago I posted a link for a site allowing researchers to search the IGI's UK holdings by surname. Basically, the site provides the batch numbers which are the key to the process. Today's news is that Hugh Wallis, the siteowner, has begun posting U.S. batch numbers. <My first lot of North American numbers are up on the site - you can <get to them from the same page as before - <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.h tm <- there will be more to come if folks can tell me what ranges to <look in!! <Please pass the word around <All the very best <Hugh Wallis <Ontario, Canada <Formerly of Surrey, UK>> That link above spans two lines in my email software, so you'll probably have to reassemble it in your browser. Chris

have some same names, should compare notes

Hi Think we should compare notes, Have some of those same names, although area a bit different, I too end up in Mass Mike

I'm still at a complete stop with my Brooks family. I'm more and more convinced that they're from Halifax, Nova Scotia even though my own grandfather, William Essex Brooks was definitely born in Charlestown, MA My grandfather: William Essex Brooks - born July 7, 1891 to Charles J. Brooks and Emma A. Glass Charles J. Brooks - the only verifiable information I have is his death certificate - he died in Boston, MA on January 4, 1898. His father is listed as James Brooks and Charles' birthplace as Halifax. Emma Glass Brooks remarried (to Peter Landy), and died Nov. 6, 1933 in Halifax where she is buried. I was thrown off by a researcher in Utah who sent me birth information on a Charles J. Brooks who was born to Frank A. Brooks and Lizzie J. ________ in Otisfield, Maine on Feb. 11, 1869 - the age is close to the death certificate (which says he was 31), but there is no other information on that line. Any ideas? Jani Newport, RI

Marianne <[email protected]ol.com> wrote: :I believe that the George Brooks you found is my George Brooks. :The pieces are beginning to fall together! [snip] : :I thought you'd like the good news that your effort to help was a :success! Thanks for the positive feedback, Marianne. I'm glad this stuff helps somebody. In the list's early months, we made lots of matches -- but those tended to be the "easy" ones to identify. Many of the folks now (still) subscribed have much less to work with -- "He would have been born around 1800 somewhere in New York" -- and so our matchmaking rate has fallen alarmingly. But one "hit" more than makes up for many prior misses. For following on beyond Jacobus's scope of coverage, I'd look for Barbour records (for as long as the family remained in Connecticut). Unfortunately, there's no statewide analogue to Barbour for New York, and it's a much bigger and more populous state as well. Keep plugging! :-) Other subscribers should follow Marianne's example and re-post their brick walls every couple of months -- I try to enter new data on a daily basis myself, and there are always new subscribers as folks unsub and new ones take their place. Chris

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:42:55 -0700, Virginia Tobias wrote: :No, actually, I never saw it. I don't think it ever came through :for me. And yesterday I looked at the archives for February and :didn't see it either, so I resubmitted it. Sorry if I was :repetitive. Either I need (different) glasses or it's a sign that :I should stick with researching lines that are a little closer to :mine. (Garry's son married my great-aunt. Close, but not that :close. We'd rather have it twice than not at all. :-) Thanks for sending it in. Chris

Chris, I believe that the George Brooks you found is my George Brooks. The pieces are beginning to fall together! You gave me.... ...but when I searched for any George born 1780 I found the following. "Mr. Delbert Radke, Attorney at Law in San Francisco, CA wrote a letter to the Record and Pension Office of the War Department dated December 19th, 1928 in which he states that George Brooks was born on Aug. 29, 1780.... If I am correct, this Delbert Radke, is descended from George W. Brooks --Julius Caesar Brooks' brother. They both are sons of the George Brooks born in 1780. Their mother was Mary Clark. Also given: The line as he has it is George, 1780 - 1850 Major John (1755 - 1846) + Rachel BLIZZARD Jonathan (say 1722) + Sarah HUBBARD Benjamin (1685) of Stratford, CT + Mary BOOTH John (say 1640) of Stratford + Sarah OSBORN, widow John PEAT Jr. A kind soul gave me the information from the "Families of Old Fairfield", but it stopped at Benjamin Brooks, now I'm searching for anything on Jonathan Brooks and Sarah Hubbard. He is now my missing link. Any help is appreciated. I thought you'd like the good news that your effort to help was a success! Mariannne

Thanks twice, Virginia. :-) Did you realize you submitted this story previously on the 18th? Traffic has been very light recently, so it might be hard to tell, but I'm wondering if you're having trouble with your subscription. If so, you can reach me at [email protected] Chris On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:42:09 -0700, Virginia Tobias wrote: :Rochester Democrat & Chronicle July 5, 1906 : :HIS LIFE HAS COVERED ONE HUNDRED YEARS : :In all Monroe county, perhaps in all Western New York, there is :only one man who can say this morning that his life has covered :100 years, and he is Captain Garry Brooks, of Fairport, who rounds :out a full century of years to-day. When he first saw the :sunlight in Connecticut, Rochester was not yet on the map; indeed, :six years were to pass before the first house would be erected :upon the site of what is now a rich and powerful city. Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ==================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England), HAPGOOD, and MERRIAM lists at RootsWeb. ==================================== [email protected]

picture is of Rueben Brooks