Rebecca Brooks (1784-1825). My 5th great-grandmother. Rebecca Brooks was the first of the Brooks family to join my family tree, when she married into the Wetherall family. The surname may derive from the town of Broc in France, brought over around the time of the Norman conquest, or also to the old English words for […]
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Mary Ann Green (1853-1918), widowed by a storm
Mary Ann Green (1853-1918), Frederick Rowland (1854-1881) and Daniel Robert Beales 1852-1909). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncles. Mary Ann Green was born on 13 January and baptised on 17 April 1853 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, to parents William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. Her first husband would drown in a notorious […]