RE: the recent obituary posting, I found a date for his death as 1933 in "Find A Grave" listed under the Pearl Creek Cemetery. The following first names are listed with birth and death dates, if known, under that Cemetery and Brooks: Alice C, Benedict, Benedict, Charlotte W., Grace, Grace A., Henrietta, Hugh T., Laura Sprague, Martha, and Mary. Seems odd to stop at letter "m" but these may be all that have been transcribed? I copied the page for anyone, but there is no cost to signing up for the website. Just select the Cemetery Lookup, then Pearl Creek Cemetery, and you will find the list. Of course a second source would be desirable. Cheshire Jean

Page 46, of course. :-) Christopher Brooks wrote: > His children, all born in Woburn, were by first wife, > Deborah: 70. Mary,4 b. Aug. 10, 1689. > > Vinton, John Adams. [ITAL:]The Richardson > Memorial[:ITAL] <snip>

Thanks to half a dozen kind souls who undertook to run down Mary Richardson's identity. (No more! <g> Stop!) Since this is a relatively common name, I hoped that Vinton's "Richardson Memorial" might confirm that Mary Richardson, daughter of Deborah/3 Brooks, and thus granddaughter of Henry/1 of Woburn, was the Mary Richardson who married Abraham/4 Cummings Jr. I have a correspondent who presented this lineage to me, and was trying to document it independently. Three Cummings genealogies I consulted give Abraham's wife as "Mary," "Mary (Richardson)," and "Mary ?Richardson." Unfortunately, as I've learned, Vinton sheds no further light, giving for Mary only her birth, and carrying her no further. ========================= His children, all born in Woburn, were by first wife, Deborah: 70. Mary,4 b. Aug. 10, 1689. Vinton, John Adams. [ITAL:]The Richardson Memorial[:ITAL], comprising a full history and genealogy of the posterity of the three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, who came from England and united with others in the foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the year 1641; of John Richardson of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson of Newbury 1643; with notices of Richardsons in England and elsewhere. Maine: Brown, Thurston & Co., 1876. Vinton does not carry her line on. ========================= Asking a favor is a wonderful reminder of how many friends one has. Thanks to all, and hope you had a great family day on Thursday. Chris

Would like to ask a favor of someone who's an Ancestry.com subscriber: a lookup in the "Richardson Memorial," which is included in their subscription library. I'm interested in whatever this work has to say about Mary/4 Richardson (John/3, Theophilus/2, Ezekiel/1), and in particular whom she married. (A correspondent maintains it was Abraham Cummings, but Cummings sources give either Mary ? or Mary?Richardson. There were a lot of women named Mary Richardson.) Would appreciate a verbatim transcription and volume/page numbers. If you can help, please reply offlist. Thanks, Chris

Other tidbits on the Benedict Brooks (Henry, Thomas, Enos, David) family line. Union Advertiser, 31 Aug. 1888, page 6, column 3: "The home of Maj. Hugh Brooks at Pearl Creek, was last week the scene of brilliant wedding festivities given in honor of his son Benedict's recent marriage to Miss Jennie Sprague. Among the guests were Mr. and Mr. M. H. Kelly and Miss Cora Kelly of Wyoming, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Frank of Warsaw, besides a number of prominent people from Le Roy, Batavia, Perry, Mt. Morris and other places. The newly married couple have the congratulations and best wishes of a large number of friends." In a typewritten copy of an undated piece that originally was written by Samuel Brooks (Henry y, Thomas, Enos, David, David) it refers to the first Benedict: "Benedict, the second son (Henry, Thomas, Enos, David) changed his plans of establishing his home here (Cheshire) and followed his brother (Micah), making his home in Wyoming Co., N.Y. He built the barn known as the Dill barn, still standing at Brooks Vale. The large stone wall nearly ten feet high, separating the barnyard from the highway, was the work of his hands and the long row of maple trees ruthlessly cut down in recent years were planted by him. Before building his house his plans were changed and later he took a wife to his new home from Lyme, Conn. His only son, Hugh T. Brooks, was formerly well known as a writer and lecturer on agricultural subjects in Wyoming Co." The obituary of Benedict (Henry, Thomas, Enos, David, Benedict, Hugh) that I previously offered and have sent to several listees referred to Benedict's son George S. Brooks as a prominent author. Well, he is found in the NY Times most prominently as co-author of a controversial play "Spread Eagle." The two authors are written up in the NYT on 10 Apr. 1927. In the article David Brooks (Henry, Thomas, Enos) gets promoted to Brigadier General when he was actually Quartermaster and Chaplain in the Cheshire unit during the Revolution, unless Chris can find anything to justify this promotion. Cheshire Jean

Here's the author's website: http://www.facesofwar.com/ Although most of our listreaders will not be related to Lorenzo (who was in the St. Albans line descending from Henry/1 Brooks of Woburn), you may find an ancestor of another surname here in the author's 2004 book "Faces of War." The website is extremely well-done and will be of interest to anyone with an interest in the Civil War. For those who are in the St. Albans line, signed copies of the book are available from the author via the website. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

From "Faces of War," Civil War Times, June 2005, reprinted here with the permission of, and thanks to, the author, Ron Coddington of Arlington, VA. If you would like a digital copy of the uniformed portrait which accompanied the text, please email me offlist with an ALL-CAPS subject line of "Send 21126 Photo." ============================= Attack on the Ceres Capt. Lorenzo Dow Brooks, Company F, Seventh Vermont Infantry Carte de visite by unidentified photographer, about 1861-1862 About six miles below Vicksburg, at a point along the Mississippi where the great river makes a sharp curve and the current runs very strong, gray gunners concealed along the shore watched and waited in darkness as the steamboat Ceres chugged into view. The lights of the ship grew closer as she rounded the bend, and the Confederate battery opened fire. Its trio of big guns erupted, spewing grape, six-pound shot and shells at the flickering lights on the water. The crew of the Ceres swung into action and extinguished the lights. A few hours earlier, her spacious deck was crowded with hundreds of slaves. Now they were gone, returned to their owners. But a small group of Union officers and a detachment of men commanded by Capt. Lorenzo Brooks of the Seventh Vermont Infantry remained. Brooks, the eldest of four children born to a St. Albans Bay innkeeper and his wife, lived an eventful life before the war. In 1856, he left his job as a clerk in his Uncle Asa's general store and ventured into the frenzied entrepreneurial environment in California. How he earned a living there went unrecorded, but he came home three years later with enough cash to become, at age twenty-six, a full partner in his uncle's business. While Brooks was away, his family fell upon hard times. Lorenzo's father had had a difficult time managing his hotel business, which suffered from an economic downtown caused by the burgeoning railroad industry that diverted dollars derived from the water-based commerce on St. Albans Bay and Lake Champlain. Matters were complicated by his father's health, which had failed after a seizure left him with impaired vision, a paralyzed hand, and a lame leg. Lorenzo had sent money from California, and, now back in Vermont, came to the rescue with regular Saturday night deliveries of food and supplies. "The goods were gratuities to his family from him," he told the family housekeeper. She had given up her weekly salary and worked only for room and board. After the Civil War started, he sold his store partnership and enlisted in the Seventh Infantry with his younger brother Delos, who was twelve years his junior at age sixteen. They enrolled in Company F: Lorenzo became captain and company commander, and Delos a drummer. The Seventh joined a new division organized by politician-turned-general Benjamin Butler for duty in the Deep South. According to an historian, "This assignment was not agreeable to the officers and men, who would have preferred to join the Army of the Potomac; but it was accepted with little murmuring." The Seventh landed at Ship Island, off the coast of Biloxi, Mississippi, in April 1862. The regiment relocated to a camp near New Orleans in May. In June the Vermonters moved upriver to Baton Rouge and joined a 3,200-man brigade with orders to capture Vicksburg. The Union force set out on June 20, supported by three warships, ten gunboats and sixteen mortar boats. A weeklong bombardment by the flotilla failed to soften Vicksburg's defenses, and the infantry was not sent in. Instead, it was ordered to dig a mile-long canal designed to divert the Mississippi river away from Vicksburg, leaving the city high, dry, and vulnerable to attack. About 1,200 slaves were drafted from area plantations to help. The canal site was a miserable place. Composed of decaying and decomposing plant and animal matter, its swamplands were dotted by pools of stagnant water thick with green scum. The poisonous environment, combined with fatigue brought on by the backbreaking labor involved in digging a trench four feet deep and five feet wide, broke the health of the troops. Hundreds fell ill, and scores succumbed to malaria and typhoid. The Seventh, which left Baton Rouge with 800 men, could barely muster one hundred for duty a few weeks later. The project, called "Folly Creek" and "Butler's Ditch" by the troops, was abandoned. Capt. Brooks was placed in command of a detachment of soldiers ordered to help evacuate slaves via the Ceres. The ship departed after dark on July 22, 1862, unarmed and without an escort. The regimental historian noted: "It seems the enemy had observed the embarkation of the Ceres." They ran a light battery down the river and waited in ambush. The Ceres dropped off the slaves at midnight, set out on her return, and encountered the masked battery. Thirty-two times the guns were fired in quick succession. Twenty-three shots hit home. The first round missed. The second struck the rail of the cabin deck, glanced upwards, and killed Capt. Brooks. Delos was within three feet of his big brother. He was not hurt. The third shot knocked a rod connected to the starboard engine loose and sent the boat spinning out of control. The crew made a quick repair, and the ship chugged away. Eleven rounds hit the hull, and five of those beneath the water line. The worst leaks were plugged by torn-up mattresses and clothing, and the Ceres made it back to base camp. Brooks was the only casualty, and the first officer in the Seventh to die. A few days later the Union troops were withdrawn. They returned to Baton Rouge, where Brooks was buried. He was twenty-eight. His comrades remembered him as "an efficient and popular officer, and his loss was severely felt." His death "greatly enhanced the general gloom and sorrow" that settled over the men of the Seventh as they struggled to understand why valuable lives had been sacrificed on a mission that many felt should not have been undertaken. His remains were later disinterred and sent home.

To friends and Family from the Schifani Family.

"This is a database compiled mostly from FHL microfiche of the Albany City Directory of New York State. It currently covers the years 1813-1854 and thanks to Jean's recent email to the Brooks mailing list I was able to add 1859. There is no directory for 1836. I hope to have this database finished up to 1861 by the end of February, just one last order of fiche. The two gentleman in bold are brothers John and David Brooks. John Brooks is my ancestor who moved to Vermont by 1860." http://home.new.rr.com/warped1/family/genealogy.html

That would be my family, and there of lots of other descendants subscribed here. Thanks, Jean. I'll pass the hint on to Santa. Here's a partial review from the Yale University Press site: The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. By Brian Donahue. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. 344 pages. $35.00 (cloth). The Great Meadow is not an ethnographic study, not a social history, not a work with an eye toward larger currents within American history, not a history of ideas or politics. It is a history of environmental practice and colonial land use in the context of the town of Concord, Massachusetts. At the book's center are the many meadows that made up the Great Meadow itself. "The meadows lay at the bottom of husbandry in Concord. Without the meadows, agriculture would have required another footing and taken another form" (166). But the Great Meadow served an ecological purpose prior to its use in the agricultural economy. It was the flood plain for the Concord River, and before English farmers could coax it into providing food for cattle it needed to be drained and planted with palatable grasses in a process that took three generations to complete. The constant labor and exquisite economy that held the Great Meadow from the river and kept it central to the lives of the families who owned it tells a story of constancy and transformation. Farmers tend to leave behind durable signs of their existence. Patterns of land holdings persist in the landscape and in deeds and probate estates. Yet the story of land use over decades and centuries is a hard one to tell in part because these documents obscure as much as they reveal. Reading the landscape itself can be a thrilling experience, but one that usually privileges its most recent inhabitants and points scholars toward core samples and other tools of historical archaeology. Legal instruments furnish only a snapshot of any particular piece of land; they rarely give a complete picture of all the land under the ownership of one family; and they provide only sketchy details about how people used land�as meadow or woodlot, for example. What makes The Great Meadow different from any other study of a colonial New England community is that Brian Donahue treats the legal documents as tiny data points to which he adds evidence about soil types, vegetation, and topography in models he created with Geographic Information Systems.1 The result is a series of "deep maps"�multidimensional representations of the town of Concord�that documents the land holdings of fifty families, for more than three and a half centuries, covering several thousand acres, amounting to almost a thousand different pieces of land. 2 The maps are the central invention and major innovation of the book, but the book is more than its maps. The Great Meadow is a narrative that operates on three levels. It is the history of the town of Concord from the receding of a glacier that made the stony New England soils to the various divisions of the common lands, which Donahue discusses with delicate attention to the interests and changes in each family he considers. It is a history of the Brooks, Hartwell, and Meriam families (along with many other owners), with attention to their English mixed husbandry and the life-cycle events that changed the number, shape, and use of their holdings. And it is a history of the Great Meadow itself, as the central landscape of the town. Jean McKee wrote: > Yesterday at the CT Gen. Soc. meeting the speaker was > Brian Donahue, Asst. Professor of American Environmental > Studies, Jack Meyerhoff Foundation, Brandeis Univ. He is > doing a comprehensive study on the land at Concord, MA, > and how it changed over time starting in the 1600's. The > Brooks family was prominently mentioned ( Noah, Samuel, > etc.) Donahue has written a book "The Great Meadow," > Yale University Press, covering these earliest times in > which he told me that the Brooks are major players -- > said they were tanners. I thought that those researching > that line might want to be aware of this. At the lecture > he had many maps of where properties were owned by the > people as the town and environs were settled and began to > grow. He talked about why lots were scattered around so > that everyone got a piece of particular lands.

Yesterday at the CT Gen. Soc. meeting the speaker was Brian Donahue, Asst. Professor of American Environmental Studies, Jack Meyerhoff Foundation, Brandeis Univ. He is doing a comprehensive study on the land at Concord, MA, and how it changed over time starting in the 1600's. The Brooks family was prominently mentioned ( Noah, Samuel, etc.) Donahue has written a book "The Great Meadow," Yale University Press, covering these earliest times in which he told me that the Brooks are major players -- said they were tanners. I thought that those researching that line might want to be aware of this. At the lecture he had many maps of where properties were owned by the people as the town and environs were settled and began to grow. He talked about why lots were scattered around so that everyone got a piece of particular lands. As a disclaimer, I have no interest in this publication or its author. FYI he has used GIS in working on the land maps and has developed a piece of software for doing mapping that he hopes to put out for general use as he thinks genealogists and others would be interested in it. (Usual obstacle is funding.) Cheshire Jean

Gail Dumm wrote: > I have not yet tried to get birth records for Helen. Can > anyone tell me the best way to find a birth record from > Stratford, CT without the exact year (somewhere around > 1845)??? As yet my research has only involved NY, NJ > and Canada. Any helpful hints/links greatly appreciated, > as I do the research in between demands from my 2 year > old son! There's a link to Coralynn Brown's Barbour Collection pages on the Resources page at the Tributaries web site. Barbour is the first resource to consult for CT before the census begins naming household members in 1850. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

I think I answered my own question. I wrote to the Stratford town clerks' office for birth records on Helen Augusta Brooks. I called first to find out what I could do without the exact year of her birth, and they told me to send all the info I DO know, and they will research it....for five bucks!!! I'd say that a great deal!!! (Hopefully they will find it) Any other helpful research hints gratefully accepted!! Gail

Well, Gail, you win today's ID jackpot (I think)! I'll make up a file to send you privately on David's ancestry, assuming that he's the fellow I described. I'm sure someone else in CT can advise you on how to get an official copy of the record, or Helen's birth record. Since I'm a one-name study guy, I rely on the Barbour Collection for Connecticut vital records, as it would be impossible and financially ruinous to pursue certified copies of the records for thousands of Connecticut births, marriages and deaths. You can read more about the Barbour Collection on the Resources page at the Tributaries web site, and we've got the Brooks listings from Barbour for a majority of Connecticut towns transcribed there, including the listing for David/6 Brooks of Stratford, in what I call the Fairfield line. In return for my file, please send me (offlist) a file in return with what you can share on this David's downline to the present. I have nothing on him beyond the birth record. Sources encouraged and appreciated. Assuming that your David and mine are one and the same, here's the line (the first 4 generations of which, plus some collaterals like BIRDSEYE, you can further explore under the Genealogies link at the Tributaries web site): 6. David, b. 19 Oct 1797, Stratford, Fairfield, CT. 5. David (b. 1772) + Abigail HAWLEY (d. 1839) 4. John (1739-c1788) + Dorothy/5 BIRDSEYE (1742-1834) 3. John (1715-1777) + Ann SHERWOOD 2. Benjamin (b. 1685) + Mary BOOTH 1. John + Sarah OSBORN I am copying this reply privately to Emma Chisholm, another descendant in this line, who can contact Gail at GottaMvSth@aol.com. Okay, gang, who knows the answer to Gail's question about obtaining state records from Connecticut? Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Gail Dumm wrote: > Since my original message, I have found David Brooks and > family on the 1850 census, living in New York City. The > exciting part about this is that it lists his age as 52, > meaning his birth year is probably 1797/1798. Boy, was > I way off on his age!!! The census shows Helen (age 5) > has 2 older brothers Edward born about 1838 in CT, and > David, born about 1843 in CT. These are the 2 Brooks > names that are buried with her in Greenwood cemetery in > Brooklyn, NY. > > I have not yet tried to get birth records for Helen. Can > anyone tell me the best way to find a birth record from > Stratford, CT without the exact year (somewhere around > 1845)??? As yet my research has only involved NY, NJ > and Canada. Any helpful hints/links greatly appreciated, > as I do the research in between demands from my 2 year > old son!

Since my original message, I have found David Brooks and family on the 1850 census, living in New York City. The exciting part about this is that it lists his age as 52, meaning his birth year is probably 1797/1798. Boy, was I way off on his age!!! The census shows Helen (age 5) has 2 older brothers Edward born about 1838 in CT, and David, born about 1843 in CT. These are the 2 Brooks names that are buried with her in Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. I have not yet tried to get birth records for Helen. Can anyone tell me the best way to find a birth record from Stratford, CT without the exact year (somewhere around 1845)??? As yet my research has only involved NY, NJ and Canada. Any helpful hints/links greatly appreciated, as I do the research in between demands from my 2 year old son! Thanks, Gail...freezing in single digits in Minnesota!

> Trudy Fielding wrote: > >> Looking for Gillman Drew (drue) Brooks married to Mary >> Elizabeth Schrivner had daughter Viola Brooks Hakes I ran a census search on Gillman Brooks for the years 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1900 with zero hits resulting. I changed the spelling to Gilman and found only three listings: 1900: Gilman of Culpepper, VA, a. 70 1860: Gilman E., W. Jersey, Stark IL, a. 22, married to Silestia 1870: Gilman E., Sycamore, DeKalb, IL, a. 30, married to Celestia Children of Gilman E. were Lester, a. 10 in 1870 Lewis, a. 10 in 1870 Austin, a. 8 in 1870 Mary, a. 2 in 1870 1880: Gilman A., Chicago, a. 41, b. OH, R.R. fireman, wife Celestia Lester, now 20 Louis A., now 20 Austin N., 18 The 1860 census reports Gilman E. born in Ohio. The 1870 census says Illinois. Regardless, since his wife was Celestia, he's not your guy. Why isn't he *anywhere* in the U.S. in three different census years? Could he have been using the first name Drew? (If so, I don't find a census hit on that name until 1900 in Georgia.) Chris

Kathy Chiappetta wrote: > Forwarding to NE Brooks list, Trudy for information on > ancestors of Gillman Drew Brooks. You'll probably have > to sign on for a Kansas or Midwestern Brooks list (if > there is one) for KS information. Don't know for sure, > though. There could be someone else on this list who's a > KS "cousin". Good luck. Kathy (CT) There's no other regional Brooks list that I've seen. If there was, I question how useful it could be. This list, and the Tributaries website I've put together to support it, operate on the proposition that genealogical research is most useful when pointed *backwards* towards the origin of the line. Each succeeding generation roughly doubles the Brooks population. There might be 5,000 living people in Kansas today with the surname Brooks, to pull a number from the sky, or maybe it's closer to 50,000. So the chances of a match on a contemporary name with any of our subscribers are so small as to be meaningless. OTOH, going back in time constantly diminishes the Brooks population and the candidate pool to the point where there's actually a realistic chance of identifying a specific Brooks ancestor. In my previous response I believe I asked Trudy what if any census years she had consulted, and whether she's looked at the SSDI. (If I didn't, I certainly should have.) Her response doesn't address these questions. If it were *my* search, the census and SSDI are where I'd start, and then work my way backwards. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Forwarding to NE Brooks list, Trudy for information on ancestors of Gillman Drew Brooks. You'll probably have to sign on for a Kansas or Midwestern Brooks list (if there is one) for KS information. Don't know for sure, though. There could be someone else on this list who's a KS "cousin". Good luck. Kathy (CT) >From: "Trudy Fielding" <trcharly@sbcglobal.net> >To: "'Kathy Chiappetta'" <kathygc@ntplx.net> >Subject: RE: [BNE] Gillman Drew Brooks >Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:37:30 -0800 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 >Thread-Index: AcXrJOJrMVE4vHcRQImxxl5IfLS1bgACNBWw > >This is all I have save I have a brother names Otis Married Mattie Elizabeth >Badger on 3-11-1884-b 9-15-1865 Washington Co KS died 4-5-1956 >Otis born 4-15-1861 I a short history written by Sylvia (Kit) Brooks Curtis >Full name for My Great Grand mother was Viola E. Brooks she died 3-06-1962 >Buried Pleasant Hill Vining (Washington Co) KS >I'm looking for her brothers & sisters? And where her father & mother were >from. >. ID: I3856 >. Name: Viola BROOKS >. Surname: Brooks >. Given Name: Viola >. Sex: F >. Birth: 25 Sep 1876 in Clyde, Kansas >. LDS Baptism: 29 Jul 1989 Temple: OGDEN >. Endowment: 19 Aug 1989 Temple: OGDEN >. _UID: E5BD6C8C2175D511AE2BB97E0006361779E3 >. Sealing Child: 5 Sep 1989 Temple: OGDEN >. Change Date: 27 Jul 2001 at 01:00:00 > >Father: Gillman Drew BROOKS >Mother: Mary Elizabeth SCHRIVNER > >Marriage 1 Arthur QUEEN b: 5 Nov 1874 in Clyde, Kansas >. Married: 9 Feb 1898 >The correct spelling of the of the mother of Viola is Scrivner. >I have the parents of Mary Elizabeth Scrivner as Edward Scrivner b 9-21-1813 >at Harpers Ferry VA married to Nancy Sebering b 3-10-1818 at Delaware Co >Iowa. He dies 1-21-1885 at Norway KS and she dies 1-25-1877 at Clyde KS >Children were : >William H b 1-7-1840 Franklin Co Ohio >John A b 8-9-1842 Delaware Co Ohio >Mary Elizabeth b 10-19-1844 Franklin Co Ohio >Eliza Jane 3-17-1846 Franklin Co Ohio >Fletcher 3-28-1846 Franklin Co Ohio >Jasper S 9-23-1850 Whitney Co Indiana >Sanford 1-12-1853 Whitney Co Indiana >Emma T 3-12-1855 Whitney Co Indiana >Sarah E 9-3-1858 Taylor Co Iowa >George W 3-19-1860 Leavenworth Co KS >Alice Adella 7-28-1862 Washington Co KS >-----Original Message----- >From: Kathy Chiappetta [mailto:kathygc@ntplx.net] >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:13 PM >To: Trudy Fielding; BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [BNE] Gillman Drew Brooks > >A unique first name is a great help, but if you can provide any other >information such as the State that Gillman was born and or lived in and >honing in on the date a little would be helpful. Kathy (CT) > >At 04:38 PM 11/16/2005 -0700, Trudy Fielding wrote: > >Looking for Gillman Drew (drue) Brooks married to Mary Elizabeth > >Schrivner > >had daughter Viola Brooks Hakes > > > >my g grandma. > > > >Trudy Fielding > > > > > > > > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > >To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > > BROOKS-NE-L-request@rootsweb.com > >or BROOKS-NE-D-request@rootsweb.com

Gail Budd wrote: > Hi! Looking for any info/connection with this Brooks > line. Helen married William A Mapes on Aug 28,1860 in > New York City and had Carrie Ceclia Mapes Dec 8, 1864 > also in NYC. William Mapes must have died, because > Helen then married Henry Edward Hildebrand (date unknown) > and had Henry Edward Hildebrand Jr, in NYC on May 17, > 1874. Helen's mother was Cecelia Mathilda Platt, > birthdate unknown, d. 1877. Helen's father was David > Brooks birth date unknown. All the above info comes from > a Hildebrand family bible. I have been told that David > Brooks was born in Stratford, Ct, but have no proof. > There is a David Louis Brooks, Jr. d. 1899, buried in > the Hildebrand family plot in Greenwood Cemetery in > Brooklyn, NY, who could be Helen's father. There is > also an Edward Brooks, d. 1879, but I don't know what > the relationship to Helen is (brother?). I have just > begun researching this branch of the family, and any help > with this Brooks line will be greatly appreciated!! I believe that in your initial message board posting, you estimated David Brooks's DOB as 1820. Let's assume for the moement that he was born at Stratford, CT, and that he belongs to the Fairfield County Brooks line. (New York City's proximity to Fairfield County is also suggestive, and Platt is a common CT surname as well.) The latest David I have in this line is David/6, born at Stratford 19 Oct 1797, so I seem to be a generation short of being able to help. How much have you been able to find in the census from 1850 on? Have you contacted the state of Connecticut to see if they have vital records for David? (David/6's birth is the only event I've found for him in the Barbour Collection of CT vital records.) In 10 years of internet connection I've only run into a couple of descendants in this line, so there's a real shortage of information. I've uploaded to the Tributaries website every scrap I have for the first four generations. If you succeed in finding more, I hope you'll share it with us. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Trudy Fielding wrote: > Looking for Gillman Drew (drue) Brooks married to Mary > Elizabeth Schrivner had daughter Viola Brooks Hakes > > my g grandma. Can you give us anything more to work on than a name? Location(s)? Date(s)? Your great-grandmother must have lived during at least the start of the "modern" census era. Have you searched the census for these folks? And the Social Security Death Index? Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||