Elsewhere
In the 13-14th C individual Brokets were recorded outside
the main later centres in Hampshire,
Flanders,
Oxfordshire,
Leicestershire
, Cornwall
and Castile.
Since then isolated pockets of Broketsmostly families
of 1 or 2 generationsor individuals have been recorded
in a few other counties and areas in Britain and across the
Channel.
| |
1. Berkshire |
2. Cork |
3. Cornwall |
4. Flanders |
| |
5. Glasgow |
6. Hampshire |
7. Holland |
8. Jersey |
| |
9. Kent |
10. Lancashire |
11. Leicestershire |
12. London |
| |
13. Oxfordshire |
14. S
Wales |
15. Surrey |
16. Suffolk |
| |
17. Sussex |
18. Wheathampstead |
19. Worcestershire |
20. York |
Reading is a main market town c 28 m N of Winchester and
these 17th C Brokets were probably related to the small clans
in Hampshire, Surrey
and Sussex. Like them they died
out or moved on before the 18th C. IGI baptisms:
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Father |
Mother |
Parish |
| 1604 |
1 Jun |
Mary |
... BROCKETT |
|
St Giles Reading |
| 1607 |
15 Nov |
Waker |
... BROCKET |
|
St Giles Reading |
| 1610 |
8 Mar |
John |
... BROCKET |
|
St Giles Reading |
| 1633 |
16 Apr |
Thomas |
Thomas BROCKET |
|
St Mary Reading |
| 1635 |
27 May |
Samuell |
Thomas BROCKET |
Kathren |
St Mary Reading |
| 1666 |
29 Nov |
John |
Thomas BROCKETT |
Abigall |
St Mary Reading |
John probably emigrated to Barbados
1682.
IGI marriages:
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Spouse |
Parish |
| 1619 |
15 Apr |
Margaret BROCKET |
Andrew SWANNE |
St Mary Reading |
| 1630 |
18 Jan |
Marie BROCKET |
Richard MASSE |
St Mary Reading |
| 1632 |
29 Oct |
Richard BROCKET |
Isabell HASKER |
St Mary Reading |
| 1640 |
6 Feb |
Katherine BROCKET |
John UNDERWOOD |
Burghfield |
| 1654 |
15 Dec |
Thomas BROCKETT |
Abigaile HARRIS |
Tilehurst |
| 1657 |
28 Mar |
Samuel BROCKET |
Elizabeth BARNARD |
St Mary Reading |
| 1677 |
24 Jul |
Maria BROCKETT |
Georgius LAWES |
Sunninghill |
IGI also has a dubious record of a Mary
Brockett marrying Thomas REEDE in 1545 with no parish listed.
On 3 Oct 1643 Alexander Brocket
Merchant of Antwerp, Flanders, was freed from Southwark jail
in London by a £1000 bond 'with condition forthwith
to depart this kingdom and to send certificate by Tomlin of
his arrival beyond seas, and not to return without license
of the Governor of Dover Castle' (Calendar of the State
Papers Domestic of the reign of Charles I 1641-3, vol
498, London 1887 p 514). A search through the available parish
registers for Antwerp between 16-18th C in the General
State Archives in Brusssels in summer 1999 revealed
no Brokets.
In the last 2 decades of the 17th C the State Papers
Domestic recorded 3 more Dutch or French Brokets:
- 15 May 1680 Pass issued to Anthony
Brocquett, native of Flanders (State Papers
Domestic p 344, SP Dom Entry Book 51 p 241)
- 18 May 1694 Whitehall Pass for Allain
Brocket, a French Protestant, to go to Holland
(State Papers Domestic p 141, SP Dom Warrant Book
38 p 566)
- 5 Oct 1696 Whitehall Pass for Alexander
Broquet to go to Holland (State Papers Domestic
p 410, SP Dom Entry Book 344 p 583).
These were isolated occurrences, perhaps Anglicisations of
Brochard or the likein 1693 Peter and Mary Brochard
were in a warrant for denization of a long list of French
Protestants (State Papers Domestic p 63). The name
Broket has not been found in France.
The 19th C Walloon
name Brochet was different.
Pre-20th C Hampshire Brokets comprised:
- William
1242-3 in the service of the Countess of the Isle of Wight
and recorded on a mission from Winchester
- a clan in and around Alton 16th to early 18th C
- 2 brothers from the Hertfordshire group, whose father
married a Brocas of Beaurepaire in the 1590s, but whose
connection with Hampshire ended 1677
- a couple of families recorded at St Mary's Portsea in
the early 1700s.
i. Alton, Heckfield, Sherfield on Lodden
These 3 parishes each already had a family in the
2nd half of the 16th C just before parish registers
began and a few descendants lived on into the 17th C. This
was a similar pattern to clans in neighbouring Berkshire,
Surrey and Sussex,
with whom they were probably related. Alton was only c 35
m W of Cuckfield, the contemporary Broket centre in Sussex.
Sherfield registers began 1574, Heckfield's 1583 but Alton's
only really from 1660 with some entries from 1615. Gilbert
of Sherfield had a son baptised and buried in nearby Silchester.
Alton was on the main
London-Winchester road and quite a wealthy town at the end
of the medieval period due to the wool trade. It had a population
of c 500 (1665 Hearth Tax). The late 16th C Brokets there
were of middling to lower prosperitywell-off craftsmen.
A century later, by 1665, the small clan had all but died
out or moved on; none paid the Hearth Tax then.
|
1. Robert Brocket was assessed in
the Lay Subsidies for Alton c 1571,
1586 for goods worth £4. Of the
31 persons assessedexcluding the 6 assessed on
landsvalues ranged from £3 to £22.
7 paid on £8 or over and the rest on £3,
£4 or £5.
On 28 Jan 1575 Robert was one of
6 witnesses to a deed of release of property in Alton
Eastbrook near Alton Church (HRO 61M96/1). He was one
of the witnesses and overseers of the will of Roger
King of Alton 22 Jan 1577 (HRO A35/1). Roger
had property in Petworth, Sussexc 15 m W of Cuckfieldso
he or his wife may have come from there. As overseer,
Robert would have been a senior associate of Roger,
hence probably b by 1540. In 1593 he
was an overseer to brother Rauphe's will. Robert was
also recorded selling a property on 20 Oct 1598:
| Conveyance by
Robert Brockett of Alton Shoemaker to William
Prowtings of Weald husbandman of All that his
messuage with appurtenances in Alton Estebrook,
now in occupation of John Bull 'abutting on the
Queen's broade highe waye on the east and on a lane
leadinge from the same highe waye towards the Church
on the south and upon a tenement or grounde of the
Queene's holding now in the occupation of Thomas
Godfrey ... on the north and west. Mark of Robert
Brockett' (extract from deeds relating to property
in High Street and Vicarage Hill made by S Warner
Oct 1930, copy held at the Curtis Museum). |
2. Rauphe married 16 May 1583
Margaret ... in Alton (IGI), hence b
by c 1558, perhaps much earlier. Will
of Rauphe Brocket of Alton, Shoemaker, written 16 May
1593 (HRO A013/1), overseers: brother
Robert Brocket, Symmon Hall, William Gooderige
and Richard Pratt. The will included bequests to:
Edward Hacker of Reading's
2 children: 50s for a cow
sister Cornellis: 6s 8d
godchildren 12d each
brother Walter's 2 children: 2s each
brother Robert: a last knife, a little hatchet and
a Sise
wife Margeret: full executrix. |
Inventory 8
Jun 1593 (HRO A013/2). No issue?
3. Rychard.
?Married 15 Jun 1595 Margery ROSIER Farnham
(IGI), hence b by c 1570,
perhaps much earlier. Will of Rychard Brockatt of Alton,
Shoemaker, written 18 Mar 1597/8 pr
4 May 1598 Winchester by Margerie Brockett widow,
witnesses: Thomas Walter, Robert Brockatt,
Symon Hall, Jesper Upton?, Thomas Mathew (HRO B03).
It mainly comprised a list of creditors and debtors.
No issue? Buried in Heckfield?
4. A Brockett married William GOSDEN
in Ropley, c 7 m SW of Alton in 1599
(IGI).
5. Marie Brocket married 11 Oct 1630
Edward FEILDER in St Lawrence's Alton.
Marie was buried 3 Dec 1654 Alton (HGS BI 2002).
6. John Brocketmost
probably husband of Sarahwas buried 11 June 1666
at St Lawrence's Alton (HGS BI 2002).
7. Sarah Brocket alias Hunt of Alton,
Widow; inventory 8 Jul 1667 totalling
£7 6d, no items suggesting any trade (HRO AD033).
No burial was recorded in Alton for Sarah, but there
are gaps in the register for the end of 1666. Sarah's
married daughter Elizabeth, married to William Constance,
was alive 1667. They were not well offin 1665
William was assessed for 2 hearths but wasn't charged.
William and Elizabeth had children baptised 1645-61.
|
| BROCKETT
of Alton 16-18th C (suggested reconstruction) |
... BROCKETT ?Shoemaker
______________________________|_______________________________
| | | | | |
| | | | ?| |
Robert Rauphe dau Walter dau Rychard
Shoemaker Shoemaker alive 1593 | m Ropley 1599 Shoemaker
|
b by 1540? b 1550s? m ... | William b 1560s?
alive 1598 d 1593 CORNELLIS 2 children GOSDEN d 1597/8
m 1583 alive 1593 m Farnham 1595
Margaret ... ? ? Margery ROSIER
no issue? John Marie no issue?
b 1590s? m 1630
d 1666 Edward FEILDER
?m Sarah HUNT
b 1590s? d 1667
|
Elizabeth
b c 1620
m William
CONSTANCE
____|_____
| |
| |
children
bap 1645-61
|
|
But for the fact that Robert was not styled 'senior'
or 'junior', he could have been considered father and
son:
i. he could
have been born 18 years or more before Rauphe
ii. a Shoemaker father with 2 Shoemaker
sons is more likely than 3 Shoemaker brothers. |
John and Marie may not have been siblings, nor
may they have been the 2 children of Walter. |
Heckfield with Mattinglyc
12 m N of Alton (Parish registers):
|
1. 7 Oct 1574 Eliza married Nicholas
HOWSE. ?Eliza b by c 1554.
2. 10 Apr 1592 Mary baptised.
3. 6 Aug 1597 Richard buried.
4. 7 Nov 1597 Joane married William
SHORROKE.
5. 21 Oct 1611 Mary married John MICHINOR.
6. 22 Oct 1626 John s/o Richard
baptised.
7. 23 Mar 1633/4 Alice d/o
Richard baptised.
|
Sherfield on Loddenc
10 m N of Alton, 4 m S of Heckfield (Parish registersseveral
pages are damaged and entries unreadable):
1. 16 Nov 1580 John Brockett buried.
2. 27 Mar 1589
John Brocked s/o Gylbert baptised.
3. 6 Jan 1597/8 Richard Brocket s/o Gilbert
baptised.
4. 24 Oct 1602 Dorothe Brockett d/o Gilbert
baptised and buried 27 Dec.
5. 11 Jun 1604 Barbarie Brockett wife
of Gilbert buried.
6. 1 Sep 1605 Gilbert
Broxhett and Clemant WILMOT married.
7. 13 Nov 1620 Mary Brockett married
John SAWCER/SAWOER.
8. 8 Dec 1621 widow Brockett buried.
9. 12 Jan 1634/5 Clement Brockett s/o
Gilbert buried.
10. 7 Jul 1636 Barbara Brockett d/o Richard
baptised.
11. 8 Feb 1639/40 Richard Brockett buried.
12. 23 Aug 1647 old Gilbert buried (HGS
BI 2002). |
Silchesterc 4
m NW of Sherfield, c 6 m W of Heckfield (Parish registers):
30 Mar 1595 Thomas s/o
Gylbart Brocket baptised.
29 May 1596 Thomas
s/o Gylberte Brocked buried (???????
Brockett in the Sherfield registers). ?Gylbert b by c
1570. |
ii. Rev John
of Ellisfield and Bentworth c 1601-62
John was the 4th son of Rev Edmund
and Mary of the main line of Brocas of Beaurepaire, and brother
of Edmund
of Bramley. He also was a clergymanfirst in Hertfordshire,
then from the 1640s in Ellisfield and Bentworth in Hampshire.
The sale of John's Bentworth property 1662-72 was the last
record of John's family in the county.
iii. Edmund
of Bramley Gent 1605-77
Fifth surviving son of Rev Edmund
and Mary of the main line of Brocas of Beaurepaire, and brother
of John of Ellisfield
and Bentworth. Bramley is c 10 m N of Bentworth. With the
death of Edmund and his brother John, records of Brokets in
Hampshire are limited to seafaring individuals in Portsmouth,
and land dealings of the 19th C Brocket Hall Estate.
iv. Portsmouth early 1700s
Robert and John Brockett had children baptised
at St Mary's Portsea in the early 1700s and Elizabeth
married nearby. Robert may not necessarily have been a Sailor,
but could have come along the coast from Sussex:
1. 16 Nov 1692 Williamperhaps
a Bracketburied Alverstoke (c 2 m from Portsea).
2. 9 Jul 1715 Ann d/o Robert bap St Mary's
Portsea; buried 10 Feb 1717 St Mary's.
3. Apr 1717 Robert s/o Robert bap St
Mary's Portsea
4. 24 Apr 1718 Elizabeth married James
PHILLIPS Brading, on the east of the Isle of Wight.
5. 8 Feb 1720 John, Sailor, buried St
Thomas Portsmouth.
6. 10 Jun 1723 Robert buried St Mary's
Portsea.
7. 29 Jun 1720 John s/o John bap St Mary's
Portsea [posthumously]. |
| Sources: IGI; burials
from HGS BI 2002 |
Drugo, Chaplain 1416
| Date/source |
Latin |
English translation |
1416
24 Mar Westminster C66/399
m 39d
Patent Roll
|
De arestando
Drugonem le Broket
1. Rex dilecto sibi Roberto
Olyuer armigero salutem. Scias quod
quibusdam certis de causis coram nobis &
consilio nostro propositis . assignauimus
te ad Drugonem le Broket de Insula
2. de Iersey capellanum vbicumque
inuentus fuerit tam infra libertates quam
extra infra Insulas de Gernesey Iersey Serk & Aurney
arestandum & statim cum captus
3. fuerit coram nobis & dicto
consilio nostro ducendum seu per
aliquem pro quo respondere volueritis duci
faciendum ad respondendum super hiis
que sibi per nos & dictum consilium
4. nostrum tunc obicientur ibidem
et ad faciendum vlterius & recipiendum
quod per idem consilium nostrum
ordinari tunc contigerit in hac parte . Et ideo
tibi precipimus firmiter
5. iniungentes quod circa premissa diligenter
intendas & ea facias & exequaris in forma predicta
. Damus autem vniuersis & singulis Balliuis Iuratis
ac aliis
6. fidelibus & subditis nostris infra
Insulas predictas tenore presencium
firmiter in mandatis quod tibi in execucione
premissorum intendentes sint consulentes
& auxili
7. antes prout decet In cuius &c T R apud Westmonasterium
xxiiij die marcij |
[Warrant
for] the arrest of Drugo Broket
1. The king sends greetings to his beloved Robert Oliver
Esquire. Know that for very good reasons expounded to
me and my council we have assigned you to arrest
Drugo Broket of the island
2. of Jersey, Chaplain, wherever he may
be found both within the liberties and without in the
islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney and as
soon as he has been captured
3. you are to bring him before me and my said council
or by anybody for whom you are prepared to vouch, making
him to answer to these things which shall by me and my
council
4. then be alledged against him there and he will then
do and receive whatever shall then happen to be ordained
by the same council of mine in this matter. And we therefore
firmly order you
5. enjoining that you act on these matters diligently
and do and execute them as instructed. We therefore instruct
all our bailiffs, jurats and other
6. loyal subjects of ours in the aforesaid islands firmly
by the terms of this document to give you advice and assistance
in carrying out the aforesaid
7. as is proper In witness etc the king at Westminster
24 March. |
The insertion of the definite article le
in front of a [supposed] foreign name was a common convention
used by Latin scribes.
Thomas of Chidingstone, Esq; will pr PCC
1667; probable son of William
of Suffolk. Thomas' son Thomas of Penshurst,
Gent, died unmarried; will pr PCC 1670.
A single nuclear family c 1610-40. IGI Baptisms:
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Father |
Mother |
Parish |
| 1612 |
|
Humphrey |
John Brooket |
Alice Schofield |
Harwood, Bolton |
| 1618 |
|
Ellis (Alice?) |
John |
Alice (Schofield) |
Harwood, Bolton |
| 1622 |
|
Alice |
John |
Alice |
Harwood, Bolton |
These were perhaps the only Brokets recorded in North West
England before the 19th C.
A Broket clan lived in the Parish of St Cuthbert in Wells
from at least the beginning of the 17th C to the end of the
18th.
Three Brocketts were recorded in connection with Ireland
in the 17th C. No others have been found
since and none are known to be there today. A search through
the Golden Pages for Ireland May 2002 showed a few
Brockerts
but no Brocketts.
i. Sir John
III 1601-5
ii. William 1601
William carried letters from the Privy Council to Sussex
to muster horsemen to fight the Spanish army which had landed
in the South of Ireland (Hine n d p 68). Sir John
III was Warden of Duncannon Fort there at the time. It is
unlikely that this was the same William
that was Governor of Kinsale 1642, who was probably only b
1588 at the earliest. This William could have been son of
one of the followingmost likely the firstall born
in the 1560s:
iii. William of Kinsale, Cork
d 1655
William was a military man, who became Colonel and Governor
of Kinsalea strategic harbour in Southern Irelandfor
Parliament during the Civil War 1642-6. He was the eldest
surviving son of Edmund
Vicar of Luton, estimated birth 1588-94. He ended his days
in Saffron Walden, Essex.
The Brokets of Suffolk comprise:
| i |
the family
of Robert
of Bramfield in the 16th and 17th C, 4th son of John
of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambs. |
| ii |
a small
clan or family near Sudbury in the second half of the
17th C who had links to the Dunton
clan of Bedfordshire. |
ii. The Sudbury clan
1. William
of Little Cornard, c 2m SE of Sudbury. Probably bap 1624 s/o
Edward
of Dunton; matriculated from Trinity College Cambridge
1638; Scholar 1641; Rector of Little Cornard, Suffolk 1662
(Venn & Venn 1922 p 222); married Joane
GATTAWARD of Royston. Children:
- William
[of Sudbury]
- Gatward lived in Colchester before 1686.
Married Sarah NICHOLS 1685 St James Colchester
(IGI), child: Edward Brockit bap
25 Nov 1688 St Botolph Colchester (IGI).
- Lydia married William MANN.
- Sivan married Jeffery POTTER,
child: Brocket POTTER bap 11 Jan 1677 Assington ('Brooket'
in the IGI). Sivan and Jeffery had died before
1683.
A case was brought in the High Court of Chancery 19 May 1650?
(PRO C3/435/43) by William Brocket of Sudbury, Clarke, and
Joane his wife, and Robert Gattaward, Joane's brotherboth
grandchildren of Joan Gattaward, late of Royston, Herts, widow,
and children of her son Robert Gattaward. Joan Gattaward's
estate in her will of 16 Oct 1640 was worth £1500. Her
executor Thomas Archer had kept the estate in his own hands
for 5 or 6 years, then died and it had gone to his wife Mary.
William's will was nuncupative, written
10 May 1683, pr Bury St Edmunds 21 Jun 1683
on the oath of Executors Edward Pretty Clerke and son William:
Be it Remembered that William
Brokett late Rector of little Cornerd
haveing been long sicke and nowe fearing a deliquium we
being present at the same time perceiving his memory to
continue good though his Expressions were very broken
tooke notice of these words from his mouth...
he gave all his money Goods & personall Estate whatsoever
unto his 2 sonnes Willam and Gatward Brockett
and [daughter] Lydia wife of William Mann |
2. Edward Brockett
senior of Bures St Mary, Yeoman. Bures is c 3 m S of Little
Cornard, 7 m NW of Colchester and 40 m E of Dunton. In his
will (pr PCC 1696 PROB 11/434; executor son
Edward) Edward left bequests of:
£20 to Edward
of Colchester [probably s/o Gatward]
£20 to Ann Barnard [aunt of William
of Sudbury]
£10 to Isaac son of Isaac
£5 to brother Robert |
strongly suggesting he was a son of Robert
of Millow and therefore baptised 1634. Edward probably arranged
for his will to be proved at the PCC for status, like Robert,
unless he feared it might be challengedhe also left 5s
to William Brockett of Colchester on demandperhaps
his elder brother.
3. William of
Sudbury Gent, son of William
of Little Cornard. Married Sissilia PARSLEY
29 Oct 1678 in Long Melford, c 2 m N of Sudbury
(IGI)no issue? Will written 12 May 1686,
pr Bury St Edmunds 19 Jun 1686 on the oath of Executors Anna
Barnard widow and Joseph Wyatt junior. The will included bequests
to:
my Aunt Ann Barnard
with whom I now dwell
Gatward Brockett late of Colchester
in Essex the summe of one Shilling of lawfull money
of England to be paid him within one Moneth after my decease
by my Executors herein after named if the same be lawfully
demanded
Brockett Potter an Orphan Sone of Sivan
Potter my sister shall have paid to some trusty
and sure friend of his to his use the summe of
fforty Shillings.
|
4. In addition the following IGI entries from the area
will be connected:
| 1657 |
John Brockit |
bap? |
s/o Samuel |
Assington |
| 1667 |
Anne Brocket |
m |
Moses BARNARD |
Bures St Mary |
Suffolk archives contain no will of Ann Barnard
1670-1770s.
A Broket line lived in Dorking for 2 centuries.
The 18 recorded by the parish registers from 1540-1640 belonged
to one line, so from 1440-1540 there may well have been a
similar number. These Brokets were probably related to the
small contemporary clans in neighbouring Berkshire,
Hampshire and SussexDorking
is only c 16 m NW of Cuckfieldand
like them they died out or moved on before the 18th
C.
The first surviving record is from 1449:
| Date/source |
Calendar entry |
1449
Calendar of Close Rolls p 160
|
Richard
Broket of Dorkyng co. Surrey 'smyth' to Henry
Carpenter, Henry Godnaan and John Somer of Dorkyng, their
executors and assigns. Gift of all his goods and chattels,
and all debts to him due; and he has put them in possession
thereof by payment of 4d. Dated 23 September 28 Henry
VI.
Memorandum of acknowledgment, 25 September. |
Another probable member of the clan was recorded in 1516
regarding Addingtonc 3 m E of Croydon,
c 16 m NE of Dorking:
| Date/source |
Calendar entry |
| 1516
(10 June) |
Livery
of lands as son and heir of John Legh of Adyngton,
Surrey. Also, livery of lands to John Skynner
and John Crowe, who (with Sir Hen. Heydon, Ralph Tykyll,
Ric. Skynner, John Grossam, John Legh of Abyngworth, and
John Broket, now deceased,) were seized
to the use of the said John Legh of the manor
of Adyngton alias Bardolfis alias Anguillondis.
Greenwich, 17 March 7 Henry VIII. Del. Westminster, 10
June (Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic: Henry
VIII, vol 2, pt 1, London 1864: no 2029: Pat 8 Hen
VIII p 1, m 19). |
Probate in Surrey (Webb p 75) is recorded for:
- Will of George Brokett
of Dorking 1536 Archdeaconry of Surrey
- Will of Richarde
Brogat of Dorking 1536 Archdeaconry of
Surrey
- Will of William
Brokett of Dorking 1536 Archdeaconry of
Surrey
- Will of Frances
Brockett of Walton Yeoman 1571 Archdeaconry
of Surrey
- Administration of William Brocket of Lymsfield 21 Oct
1626 to son Thomas (PCC PROB 6/12 f 248).
Limpsfield is c 17 m E of Dorking.
A century after parish registers began the line ended or
moved on. The entries in the Dorking parish registers read:
1540 Lyon bur
21 Jul
1540 Clemence mar 25 Oct to William MAIE
1550/1 Marie bap 10 Jan
1556 Frauncis mar 12 Oct to Joane BURNELL
1562 Grace bur 14 Oct
1563/4 Myles mar 24 Jan to Joane STILWELL
1563 Alice mar 22 Sep to Nicholas CRONEY
1564 Jone bap 5 Apr
1599 John bap 25 Apr s/o Raphe
1602 William bap 29 Aug s/o Raphe
1605 Ann bap 14 Apr d/o Raphe
1608 Jane bap 1 May d/o Raphe
1621 Mary bap 10 Mar d/o John
1624 Frances bap 24 Oct s/o John
1627 William bap 11 Apr s/o John private
1627 William bur 14 Apr s/o John
1628 Jane bap 30 Apr d/o John
1634 John bap 19 Oct s/o John
1635 Mary bur 24 Aug wife of John
1640 Joan bur 14 Jul widow of Raphe |
| Note: the IGI has a baptism
entry: Margarett 29 Dec 1627 d/o Edward,
but it was not found in the Parish Register itself. |
| BROKET
of Dorking 16-17th C (suggested reconstruction) |
______________________________________________________________________________
| | | |
| | | ?|
Richarde d 1536 George d 1536 William m Clemente Lyon
m ... a 1536 m Alice AWNCELL d 1536 | d 1540
|
|____________________________ _____________|________________
| | | | | |
| | ?| | | |
John Myles m 1564 Joane Clemence m 1540 Frances m 1556 Joane Roberte Mary Alice
a 1536 | STILLWELL William MAIE Yeoman | BURNELL a 1571 a 1571 m 1563
| |
| d 1571 | a 1571 Nicolas
| |
| ______________________________|________ CRONEY
| | | | | |
?| | | | | |
Jone Richard Raphe m Joan Annes Ales Audrey William of
bap b aft d bef | d 1640 b aft b aft b aft Lymsfield
|
1564 1551 1640 | 1553 1554 1555 d 1626
|
________________|______________________ |
| | | | |
| | | | |
John m Mary William Ann Jane Thomas
bap 1599 | d 1635 bap 1602 bap 1605 bap 1608 a 1626
|
| ?Reigate 1641
|
______________|______________________________________
| | | | |
| | | | |
Mary Frances William Jane John
bap 1621 bap 1624 bap 1627 bap 1628 bap 1634
bur 1627
|
| Note:
This doesn't account for Marie bap 1551 or Grace
bur 1562. |
|
Frances Yeoman's younger brother may have been the Roberte
Brockett 'Billman of the best sorte' listed for the parish
of St Martha upon the Hill in 1583/4 (Surrey
Musters, Surrey Record Society, no 11, 1914, p 27).
Jane may have
emigrated to Virginia 1655. One could speculate that William
who emigrated to Virginia 1668 was the son of Jane's brother
Frances/Francis bap 1624, although it is
not known if Francis married. William probably named his
own son Francis.
Apart from a 17th C Southwark
family who moved to Croydon, other Surrey
records consist only of:
- an isolated family c 1604-39 in Wonersh
c 3m S of Guildford and 9m W of Dorking: Alice
Brocket bap 1604, Mary bap 1615, Mary
bur 1636, Robert bur 1639 (Wonersh Index
of baptisms and burials); Annis mar Harry
GEE 11 Nov 1611 (IGI).
- Nicolus Broket m Joan B
3 Mar 1616 Horley, c 10 m N of Balcombe in Sussex
(IGI).
- William
Brockett who signed the Protestation in Reigatec 5
m E of Dorkingjust before the Civil War in 1641/2
(Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol 59, 1962,
p 51). All males over 18 in England and Wales had to take
an oath 'to live and die for the true Protestant religion,
the liberties and rights of subjects, and the privilege
of Parliaments' (Hey 1996 p 381). William was therefore
born 1623 at the latest. Was he son of
Raphe and Joan? Deeds dated 17-18 Jun 1698 in Surrey Archives
(ref: 322/1/6-7) regarding the lease and release of a Burgage
tenement in Reigate mention a ?William Brockett.
Bocketts Farm,
sometimes wrongly called Brocketts Farm, is a contemporary
working farm south of Leatherhead.
When parish records began a small clan was living in the
centre of the county. They were probably related to the small
clans in neighbouring Berkshire,
Hampshire and Surrey
and like them they died out or moved on before the
18th C. The IGI records 11 baptisms 1601-73:
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Father |
Mother |
Parish |
| 1601 |
8 Feb |
Ninian |
Henry BROKET |
|
Cuckfield |
| 1603 |
2 Jan |
Mary |
Henry BROKET |
|
Cuckfield |
| 1605 |
7 Apr |
Jane |
Henry BROCKAT |
Marie |
Cuckfield |
| 1609 |
2 Apr |
Sarah |
Henry BROCKET |
Marie |
Cuckfield |
| 1611 |
22 Dec |
Susan |
Henry BROCKET |
|
Cuckfield |
| 1618 |
16 Aug |
John |
Robert BROOKAT
|
|
Eastbourne |
| 1641 |
24 Jan |
Elizabeth |
Ninian BROCKET |
|
Ditchling |
| 1662 |
24 Oct |
Ann |
Richard BROCKET |
|
Kirdford |
| 1663 |
12 Jul |
Edmond |
... BROCKET |
|
Brighton |
| 1667 |
3 Mar |
daughter |
Edward BROKET |
|
Brighton |
| 1673 |
5 Dec |
Richard |
Richard BROCKET |
Ann |
Horsham |
The IGI records 10 marriages 1562-1690:
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Spouse |
Parish |
| 1562 |
3 May |
William
BROOKET |
Elner VENOULL |
Ardingley |
| 1588 |
3 Jun |
Joan BROCKET |
Gabrell/Gatrell ROGERS |
Ardingly |
| 1599 |
22 Oct |
Henry BROCKETT |
Mary ARNOLD |
Cuckfield |
| 1610 |
3 Jul |
Ninyon BROCKETT |
Ann PAYNE |
Balcombe |
| 1627 |
18 Apr |
Ninian BROCKET |
Mary VIRROLL |
Keymer |
| 1632 |
19 Jul |
Sarah BROCKET |
John GEALE |
Cuckfield |
| 1640 |
5 May |
Jane BROCKETT |
Richard WOOD |
Cuckfield |
| 1656 |
12 Apr |
Jane BROCKET |
Thomas SYMMONS |
St Michael Lewes |
| 1669 |
22 Jun |
Nicholas BROCKET |
Emblen HOWES |
Findon |
| 1690 |
3 Feb |
Mary BROCKET |
Stephen MERSH |
Ringmer |
| All these parishes are within
36 m of each other. Eastbourne is the furthest
E, on the coast c 19 m E of Brighton. Lewes is
c 6 m NE of Brighton and Ringmer c 3 m NE of Lewes. Cuckfield
is c 12 m N of Brighton. Ardingly is c 2 m W of Balcombe,
which is c 3m N of Cuckfield. Cuckfield, Keymer
and Ditchling are in the centre of the group.
Keymer and Ditchling are a mile apart just over 5 m S
of Cuckfield. Horsham is c 9 m NW and Kirdford c 17 m
W of Cuckfield. Findon is the furthest W,
c 11 m W of Brighton. |
The 2 oo spellings in 1562 and 1618 were scribal variantsno
separate name
existed, not even in Scotland.
The Sussex Marriage Index also records the marriage of Joan
and John SPONER in 1595 Ditchley (Ditchling?)
Sussex Burial Inscriptions
(www.Familyhistoryonline.net Apr 2005):
| Year |
Month |
Name |
Parish |
Comment |
| 1600 |
4 Apr |
Ninnion
Brocket |
Cuckfield |
|
| 1612 |
30 Sep |
Susan
Brockett |
Cuckfield |
d/o Mary, Widow |
| 1617 |
6 Jan |
Katherine
Brockett |
Cuckfield |
Wife of Thomas |
| 1617 |
17 Mar |
Thomas
Brocket |
Cuckfield |
|
| 1621 |
23 Jan |
Widow
Brockett |
Balcombe |
?s |
| 1658 |
1 May |
Mary
Brockett |
Cuckfield |
Widow?ARNOLDE
or VIRROLL |
Ninian 1601-60 was a relatively wealthy
yeoman, leaving bequests of £580 over and above property
and goods and chattels. He was a Quaker, imprisoned
for his beliefs:
| 1656-7 Freedom on appeal by 7
Quakers 6 Jan, including Ninian Brocket, prisoners for
conscience sake in Horsham gaol. Ninian had been committed
for refusing to swear at the county sessions, not doffing
his hat and for refusing to plead to an indictment (State
Papers Domestic pp 229, 30). |
| Extracts
from the will of Ninian Brockett, written
7 Feb 1659/60 pr PCC 28 Oct 1661 |
vnto Mary my wife
the summe of eight pounds of currant English money, a
yeare out of my house at Arundell, to be payd att Fower
euen partes or porcions euery yeare, beginning
six months after my decease, furthermore I giue vnto the
sayd Mary my wife fiue pounds of lawfull English money
in her purse; likewise I giue vnto the sayd Mary two bushells
of wheat, and two bushells of mault euery yeare dureing
the time of her life; Item I giue vnto Mary my wife one
feather bed one bedstead with all belonging to it; Item
I giue vnto here Fiue paire of sheets, one paire of pillow
coats, one hemptan Table Cloath and two canvis Table cloaths,
one Iron pott one brasse pott two Firkins two skilletts,
two cheeses, one linnen wheele, one woollen wheelle, one
little paire of gridirons, one potthooks; one paire of
pott hangers; one Cheare, two bucken tubbs; two kiners,
six pewter dishes, six spoons, six wooden dishes one Wooden
platter and one Dozen of trenchers two little Ioyne stooles
three ordinary stooles, one paire of bellows one pewter
pott
vnto Henry Woolger and Margarett his
wife the summe of Thirty pounds of Currant English money
to be payd vnto them within one whole yeare after my deceasse;
vnto John Brockett my eldest sonne the
summe of One hundrd pounds; of good and lawfull money
of England to be payd vnto him within one whole yeare
after my decease (and noe more)
vnto Sarah my Second daughter the Summe
of one hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England
to be payd vnto her within one whole yeare after my decease,
And twenty pounds more of the like money to be payd vnto
her the sayd Sarah at the end of three yeares after my
decease as aforesayd Item I giue more vnto the sayd Sarah
one bed and one bedstead and all belonging to him; and
she is to chuse onley two excepted;
vnto Jane Brockett my Third Daughter
the summe of sixty pounds of lawfull English money to
be paid within one whole yeare after my decease; And alsoe
I giue her the sayd Jane Bro'c'kett the same bed which
was giuen her in my First Will
vnto Elizabeth Brockett my fourth Daughter
the summe of one hundred pounds of good and lawfull money
to be payd vnto her at the time when she shall accomplish
the Age of one and Twenty yeares, and to receiue vse for
the said hundred pounds till she shall come to the age
aforesayd; furthermore I giue vnto the said Elizabeth
one bed and bedstead and all that belonging to him.
vnto Ann Brockett the summe of Fourescore
pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid vnto her
the sayd Ann Brockett at the age of one and twenty yeares
And likewise the vse of the sayd fourescore pounds till
that time, And likewise I giue vnto her the said Ann Brockett
one bed and bedstead with all belonging to him.
vnto Mary Brockett my youngest daughter
the Summe of Fourescore pounds of good and lawfull money
of England to be payd her at the time when she shall accomplish
the age of one and twenty yeares, and likewise the vse
of the said fourescore pounds till that tyme And likewise
one bed and bedstead and all that be longe vnto him,
vnto my youngest sonne Nicholas Brockett my house
in Arundell, Scituate and being in the lower
Street called Tarrent Street, and knowne by the name of
the lower brewhouse; latly in the hands of John Pollett;
Item I giue vnto the Sayd Nicholas my sonne all that Capitall
Messuage, with euery parte and parcell thereof
that is to say the two dwelling houses, with the two mault
houses, the two gardens and gats and gats rombs and stables
and the slipinge lying by the riuer sid with the Croft
there vnto belonging and adioyning and the west sid of
the Mault house and the ship yard on the west sid of that
conteyning halfe an Acre of ground more or les, Further
more I doe appoynt the sayd Nicholas Brockett
my youngest sonne; full and whole Executor of
all my goods and Chattles
Lastly I doe hereby apoynt ouerseers
for my last will and Testament, Nicholas Beard
of Rottinden in the County aforesayd and Richard
Newman of Wickham in the parish of Steaning in
the same County Yeoman |
Ninian's will and the baptism, marriage and burial data
suggest this reconstruction:
| BROKET
of Sussex c 1535-1690 |
William m 1562 Elner VENOULL Ninnion
b c 1535 d 1600
Joan m 1588 Henry m 1599 Mary Ninyon m 1610 Thomas m Katherine Joan m 1595
Gabrell b c 1570 | ARNOLDE Ann d 1617 ... John
|
ROGERS d by | ?d 1658 PAYNE d 1617 SPONER
|
1612 |___________________________________________________
| | | | |
| | | | |
Nicolus m 1616 Ninian m 1627 Mary Mary Jane Sarah Susan
Joan B bap 1601 | VIRROLL bap bap 1605 bap 1609 bap 1611
|
(Horley) | ?d 1658 1603 m 1640 m 1632 d 1612
|
| Richard WOOD John GEALE
|
___________________________|_____________________________
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
Margaret John Sarah Jane Elizabeth Ann Nicholas Mary
m Henry ?m 1656 bap 1641 b c 1644 ?m 1690
WOOLGER Thomas ?m 1669 Stephen
SYMMONS Emblen MERSH
HOWES
|
What became of the last generation is not known.
The 1851 census showed 2 young families in Trevethin parish,
near Pontypool c 17 m N of Cardiff, those of Thomas
b c 1816 Mynyddyslwyn, Newport District, and James
b c 1825 Cardiff, both working as Ballers in an Iron Forge.
Following civil registration in 1837 and up to 1938 St Catherine's
Index showed:
- Pontypool District 1841-89: 4 marriages, 9 births (last
one 1858) and 3 deaths
- Newport and Chepstow: 1841-1918 2 marriages, 2 births
(last one 1875) and 5 deaths
- Montgomeryshire 1842: 1 death.
The IGI recorded only 1 pre-1837 record for Wales:
a marriage in Newport in 1826. Currently the only Brockets
in Wales immigrated from Scotland.
Pre 1937 records:
- A Brocot family in Lindridge in the 1720s
- A Brocket family in Kidderminster in the 1910s
- A Brockett family in Kidderminster in the 1930s.
|