Elizabeth Brooke

Executrix, sister and co-heiress (with her sisters, given in his will as Maria Brooke and Isabella Frances Brooke) of her brother Charles Brooke (q.v.), a London merchant and partner of John Robley who died in 1833. Her will appears to refer to her father as Henry Francis Brooke.

1. In 1841 an Elizabeth Brooke aged 70, Independent, is shown (with an indication that she was born in the same county) as living at High Street Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire with several servants. Death of Elizabeth Brook [sic] registered Q2 1846 Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire.

2. Will of Elizabeth Brooke spinster of Chipping Sodbury proved 28/05/1846. It included specific legacies of £1000 each to her sisters Mary Ann the wife of William Cave of Henbury; Caroline wife of an [illegible] civil servant in India; Matilda, wife of a cergyman in West Boxborough Somerset [sp?]; Isabella spinster of Bath; and to nephews Charles Brooke surgeon (son of Henry James Brooke), Rev Thomas Richard Brooke, niece Elizabeth, the wife of a surgeon in Bath. Legacies of £100 to sister-in-law Mrs Brooke of Clifton widow, god-daughters etc., specific legacies to servants.

T71/885 British Guiana No. 697 identifies Elizabeth Brooke as of Chipping Sodbury. Will of Charles Brooke proved 31/10/1833, PROB 11/1822.

1. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online].

2. PROB 11/2035/237.