Roger BROOKE, 16TH GOVERNOR OF MAYLAND
Birth:
3 Jun 1602
London, Middlesexshire, England
Chr:
of Whitemarsh, Southampton, England
Death:
20 Jul 1655/56
Brooke Place, Manor, Calvert County, Maryland
Burial:
Abt Jul 1655/56
Brooke Place, Manor, Calvert County, Maryland
Marriage:
25 Feb 1627
Mother:
Notes:
Aka, Robert. He matriculated at Wadhams College, Oxford, 28 APR1618 and received a B.A. 06 JUL 1620 and M.A., 20 APR 1624. Admitted to HolyOrders 25 FEB 1626/27. 16th Governor of Maryland, Acting Governor in 1652. A Member andsometimes President of the Governor's Council. The Colonist of 1650. Was of Whitemarsh, Southampton, England. Emigrated in 1650,arriving 30 JUN of that year. A lineal descendent of King Fergus II. Emigrated on his own ship. Helived only five years after his arrival in Maryland. He brought ten of hischildren with him. He was a Protestant. He was the first Commander in CharlesCounty (Maryland). He sailed into the Patuxent River in his own ship, with his secondwife Mary MAINWARING and his ten children, accompanied by a retinue of 28servants, he was accorded, no doubt, the welcome which the heralding of LordBaltimore naturally insured to him. Charmed by the picturesque shores of thePawtuxent, he sailed many miles farther up (about twenty miles) than anyadventurer had sailed, and chose for his abiding place the two thousand acres, laterknown as the Manor De la Brooke, of which his eldest son, Baker, was createdLord, while his father became Commander of the new county named Charles, inhonor of the King. Roger aka Robert removed to Brooke Place, being right againstDella Brooke. LDS Ancestral File lists him as being named Robert, AFN9G7V-CG. of De la Brooke Manor. The fact that he came to Maryland as a friend of King Charles and wasan adherant and Privy Councillor of the Lord Baltimore and changed hisallegiance to the Cromwellian Party when they deposed Governor Stone in 1652....... Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.
Notes:
Also married 27 FEB 1627.
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
16 Nov 1628
Battel, Sussex, England
Death:
1679
Notes:
of De la Brooke Manor, Calvert County. Arrived in Maryland in 1650. Member of the Council of Maryland from 1658 until his death. Surveyor-General of Maryland, 1671-1679, and Colonel of the CalvertMilitia. Descendency from Baker Brooke falls within the qualifyingrequirements of The National Society of Lords of the Maryland Manors (1938). Sources include but are not limited to; The Hereditary Register of the United States (1981).
Notes:
Source includes, but is not limited to: Annals of Sandy Spring (Maryland), Volume Two, Page 290.
3
Birth:
23 Jun 1632
of Brookfield, Manor, Calvert, Maryland
Death:
1676
Notes:
Member of Legislature from Calvert County (Maryland). 1663-1676, HighSheriff 1666-1673.
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Roger Brooke, 16th Governor of Mayland - Mary Baker
Roger Brooke, 16th Governor of Mayland
was born at London, Middlesexshire, England 3 Jun 1602.
His parents were Thomas Brooke, Member of British Parliament and Susan Forster.
He married Mary Baker 25 Feb 1627 .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Baker Brooke, Colonel of Calvert Malitia
born 16 Nov 1628.
Mary Brooke
born 19 Feb 1630/31.
Thomas Brooke, Major of
born 23 Jun 1632.
Barbara Brooke
born 1634.
Roger Brooke, 16th Governor of Mayland died 20 Jul 1655/56 at Brooke Place, Manor, Calvert County, Maryland .
Mary Baker died 1634 .