• General Notes

  Alias:<ALIA> /Roger/
  REFN: 2145
  Colonial Families in the U.S.:
  COMMANDER ROBERT BROOKE, the emigrant ancestor, arrived in Maryland, 30th
  June, 1650, with his second wife, Mary MAINWARING, ten children and
  twenty-eight servants, all transported at his own cost.  He was the son
  of Hon. Thomas BROOKE, and Susan FOSTER, and was b. in Lond, 3d June,
  1602; d. 20th July 1655, and is buried at Brooke Place Manor, Maryland;
  matriculated at Waldham College, Oxford, 28th April, 1618; B.A. 6th July,
  1620; M.A. 23d April, 1624; Commission issued to him in London, 20th
  September, 1650, to erect a new County in Maryland, called  Charles, of
  which he was constituted Commander; made Member of the Council the same
  day; Head of the Provisional Council under Cromwellian Government 29th
  March to 3d July, 1652, Acting Governor, 1652.  Bozman says he was a
  Puritan, and Allen that he was a High Church Protestant; certain it is
  that he stood high in the confidence of the CROMWELL party; m. (firstly)
  25th February, 1627, Mary BAKER, dau. of Thomas BAKER of Battell,
  Barrister at Law, and Mary ENGHAM, his wife, dau. of Sir Thomas ENGHAM of
  Goodneston, Kent, she died in England, 1634; m. (secondly) Mary
  MAINWARING, d. 29th November, 1663, dau. of Roger MAINWARING, D.D., Dean
  of Worcester, and Bishop of St. Davids.
  He and his sons, Baker & Thomas took the oath of fidelity to the
  Proprietary, July 22, 1650.  He is said to have been the first to settle
  on the Patuxent River, twenty miles up at De la Brooke.  In 1652 removed
  to Brooke Place, adj. De la Brooke.
  A lineal descendent of King Fergus II.  He emigrated on his own ship and
  lived only five years after his arrival in Maryland.
  Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families:
  ARMS--Checqui or and azure, on a bend gules, a lion passant of the
  first.
  CREST--A demi-lion rampant or erased gules.

Details of Robert's family with Mary Baker

Details of Robert's family with Mary Mainwaring