Brockbank Brookbanks Brooksbank family
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Dr Geoffrey Mann |
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9 ChristopherBROOKBANKS c1620-1680 |
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m Mary c1650 |
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Christopher was a yeoman farmer in the parish of Madresfield near Worcester when he died in 1680 possessing goods valued at £97 (equivalent to about £9000 today). But he baptised his four known children at nearby Hanley Castle. He was probably born around 1620 and married his
wife Mary around 1650, but no records of these events have been found |
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Age* DATE CB |
EVENT |
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? c1620 ? c1650 30 21Apr1653 33 5Nov1655 35 21Dec1658 37 9Aug1665 43 7Mar1668 46 15Jan1680 60 26Jan1680 60 27Jun1700 |
etimated birth of
Christopher married Mary son William C at Hanley
Castle son Christopher C at
Hanley Castle dau Mary C at Hanley
Castle dau Ann C at at Hanley
Castle dau Martha buried at
Hanley Castle Christopher buried at
Hanley Castle inventory of
Christopher’s assets totalled £97 wife Mary buried at
Hanley Castle |
*age based on an assumed birth date of 1620
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b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
Christopher was probably married about 1650 and died in 1680. No record is known which gives his age, but a birth date around 1620 might be expected. No record of his birth has been found. He baptised his children in the parish of Hanley Castle and the registers there commence in 1539 but the first BROOKBANKS reference is to the baptism of Christopher’s son William in 1653. At his death he was a farmer of Madresfield where BTs go back to 1611, but the first BROOKBANKS reference is in 1686
Christopher 8 was baptised at Hanley Castle in 1655, son of Christopher & Mary. A series of baptisms to these parents there begins in 1653, but no marriage of Christopher & Mary has been found; it is not in the Worcester m index or IGI. It may have taken place around 1650 at Hanley Castle, but there are gaps in the registers there about this time so the record may be lost.
gaps in register 1636-1653 except for some
1643-1653 that the clerk could remember in 1653; William’s C was one of these
C 21Apr1653 William s Christopher BOWKBANK
C
5Nov1655 Christopher s
Christopher & Mary BOWKBANK
C 21Dec1658 Mary d Christopher
& Mary BOWKBANKE
C
9Aug1665 Ann d
Christopher & Mary BROOKBANKS
B
7Mar1667/8 Martha d
Christopher BROOKBANK
B 29Jul1681 Mary BROOKEBANKS [probably refers to Mary C 1658]
B 15Jan1679/0 Christopher BROOKBANKS
B 27Jun1700 Mary BROOKBANKS wid of Powick;
affidavit brought in time
Powick is some 5 miles from Hanley Castle but only 2 miles from Madresfield where Christopher’s farm probably lay.
26Jan1679/70 Mary BROOKEBANKE of
Madresfield relict of Christopher BROOKEBANKE agricole late of Madresfield,
admon of his goods and chattels.
signed by Marie BROOKEBANK, William BROOKEBANK, Christopher BROOKEBANKE,
Will SANDERS
inventory 30Jan1679 Madresfield
this admon
almost certainly refers to Christopher of Hanley Castle even though he was
“late of Madresfield”; the date is just a few days after his burial and is
signed by three Brookbanks whose names are those of his wife and two sons. Moreover, Madresfield is just three miles
from Hanley Castle; probably Christopher’s farm was in Madresfield, but the
church of Hanley Castle was preferred perhaps because it was nearer
money and wearing apparel £ 2-10
in the house £ 4-10
in the chamber, parlour & 2 beds £ 2-00
wool, meat, bread, hay, pease in the barn,
3 kine and 3 young bease, corn, carts etc etc
total £97-00
(equivalent
to about £9000 today)
origin
of Christopher and his marriage to Mary