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Many thanks to:

(Surnames are in alphabetical order. Please email if you have inadvertently been left out.)


Shaun Allan for help with the design of the interface.

Rosie Bevan for medieval data.

Nigel Boyes for help with programming.

Mark Brocket for sharing his research on the 19-20th C Lincolnshire clan.

Richard Brockett, Advocate, for help with legal points.

Dr Geoffrey Bromiley for help with Old French.

Dr Neil Coates for help with Thomas of Wheathampstead in Essex.

Melanie Devine for information on the Scropes.

Clive Cheesman for help with heraldry.

Ian Ellis for providing data.

Esther Galbraith for sharing her researches into Scottish Brokets.

Henry Gray of Hatfield for providing copies of his unpublished pedigrees of BROCKETT of Dunton, Hitchin and Southwark and for copying and painting part of College of Arms ms I.16/26.

Dean Hale for help with programming.

Marjorie Harrison for help with the history of Bolton Percy. See her book.

Jane Hurst for help with the history of Hampshire.

Dr Peter Linehan for help with the history of Castile.

Ray Madsen for providing data. See http://www.wheathampstead.net/brockett/index.htm.

Wendy Masterson for sharing her researches into London Brocketts.

Dr Joyce McCarthy for help with the history of Willingale.

Iain McIver of Lanark Library for help with the history of Lanarkshire.

John McLeish of East Kilbride Central Library for help with early Scottish Brokets.

Robert McLeish for help with the history of Lesmahagow and Brocketsbrae.

Professor John Milne for help with deer. See http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk.

Dr Stephen Minta for help with Old French etymology.

Charlotte and Ian Muir for sharing their researches on the Scottish Brokets and for photos of John Wilson's clan.

Pat Mussett for many hours' help with Medieval Latin.

Richard Nash for generously sharing his researches into the Brocketts of North America. See in particular William of Norfolk and emigrants ii-v, vii, viii, x-xii; also his book. Richard also compiled the original list from the IGI for the 1600-50 study.

Roger Norris of Durham University Library for help with finding references.

Professor David Palliser for help with the history of York. See his book.

Carole Parker of Hertfordhire Archives and Local Studies, and her colleagues for help with the history of Hertfordshire. See http://www.hertsdirect@hertscc.gov.uk.

Chris Phillips for help with the design of drop-line pedigrees. See his www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk.

Professor Michael Prestwich for help with late medieval documents.

The Public Record Office for permission to reproduce an image of C1/5 on the homepage and the text of many other documents within this site. See http://www.pro.gov.uk.

Dr Paul Seaward for arranging permission from the Trustees of the History of Parliament to quote from Bindoff's History.

Dr Ian Short of the Anglo-Norman Texts Society for help with Anglo-Norman. See http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/french/ants.htm.

Robert Squires for data on early New England Brocketts.

Mark Statham of Gonville and Caius College Library, Cambridge University for arranging access to Gonville and Caius College ms 424/48.

Dr Matthew Townend for help with Middle English.

Professor John Wells for help with the International Phonetic Alphabet. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-english-uni.htm.