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Terry Mason's Family History Site

Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser.

 

Selected Families and Individuals

Source Citations


Col. Francis Vivian Brooking

1Samuel, Dorothy Stanaland & Samuel Taliaferro Leslie, Samuell/Samuel families of Tidewater Virginia, The, Southern Historical Press, Montgomery Ala.. 1997, p.20, 929.273 Sa49st. "He is styled Colonel. When he wrote his Will in 1808 he said he was in the three score and tenth year of his age. He names three grandchildren as follows, and his children are listed in the order in which they are named in the Will.
1. My deceased grandaughter Frances Robertson, late wife of Archer Robertson.
2. My grandson Robert Edward Brooking (who married Mary J. Barnett 3 February 1854 at Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky at James Barnett's.)
3. My grandson Vivion Brooking, son to my son Henry T. Brooking, dec'd.
The codicil dated 20 July 1808 - To my daughter, Frances Brodnax, one Negro girl, Joanna's child called Mary Ann, to be carried to Georgia when Edward B. Brooking removes his family." children listed on p. 21.


Robert Edward Brooking

1Samuel, Dorothy Stanaland & Samuel Taliaferro Leslie, Samuell/Samuel families of Tidewater Virginia, The, Southern Historical Press, Montgomery Ala.. 1997, p.19, 929.273 Sa49st. "came from Ireland to Virginia ca. 1725. (Marriage listed)

June 1755 Robert Brooking and Frances, his wife, of King and Queen county, sold to James Garnett of Essex county for  £450, 375 acres granted Robert Brooking 12 Jan 1753, lying in Essex county adjacent Blackburn's Creek, land of Dr. Mungo Roy, etc."


Frances Vivion

1Samuel, Dorothy Stanaland & Samuel Taliaferro Leslie, Samuell/Samuel families of Tidewater Virginia, The, Southern Historical Press, Montgomery Ala.. 1997, p.19, 929.273 Sa49st.