WOW!!! and here I'd thought I'd found the three brothers that originally came over from Nantwich, Cheshire. I found a LONG line from there, from Brooke to Brooks, if I have this right, Caleb would be my 8X Great Granddad. Zeetha Emma BROOKS 1894 - 1968 is my Great Grandmother, just to give you an idea of where I fit in. Thanx, Gene Genealogy; "a stirring of the memories" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Brooks" <trib@tributaries.us> To: "Gene Hutson" <FishRus@CableOne.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [BNE] Administrative update: Back online Gene Hutson wrote: > I see you mentioned BROOKS from Massachusetts bay. > > What do you know of a Caleb BROOKS b. 1632 at Concord?? > he married a Hannah ATKINSON abt 1668. He's my umpteenth great-uncle (I descend from his brother Joshua), and my son Caleb is named for him. Go to www.tributaries.us, click the Genealogies link, and then in the founders table click on Capt. Thomas Brooks in the Massachusetts block. That will take you to his son Caleb. You'll find other Brooks resources at the site, principally the BROOKS-NE list at RootsWeb, to which a number of descendants of Caleb are subscribed. And note the DNA news popdown - results are back from the lab, confirming that Henry/1 and Capt. Thomas/1 Brooks, both of Massachusetts Bay, shared a common male ancestor. Finally, the author John Brooks Threlfall has recently been in touch with what he believes is the English origin of this line - in Manchester, of all places. (East Anglia, most often Suffolk, has generally been the prior supposition.) All in all, a propitious time to hear from you. :-) Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England www.tributaries.us ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||