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'The Holbrook Home'
WELCOME TO "THE HOLBROOK HOME"
Home - definition - A place of residence and the place where
one's domestic affections are centered.
Holbrooke/Holbrook is one of my family lines of which I am proud to be a descendant.
The Holbrooks are an adventurous and pioneering people who helped
to settle this great land of the U.S. of A.
I would like this to be a real home for these people who came
before and a clearinghouse of information for those of us who
are interested in these pioneers.
My name is Shirley KENDRICK (JOHNSON) and I am descended from the HOLBROOKS through my Grandmother Grace Lenore HOLBROOK (KENDRICK). The Holbrook name ended with her generation in our family. There was no surviving married males to carry on the name.
The original HOLBROOKE in our line in America came on the "Mary
Gould" in 1635 from Weymouth, England to Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Thomas HOLBROOKE of Broudway who was married to Jane POWYES on 12 Sep 1616. The will and codicil below are for this Thomas HOLBROOKE. He died 10 May 1676/7.
The above Thomas HOLBROOK had a son named Thomas HOLBROOK born in 1625 and died in 1697 who married Joanna KINGMAN. Both Thomas and Joanna came over with their parents to America in 1635. They were 10 and 11 years old respectively.
Thomas and Joanna KINGMAN had a son Peter HOLBROOK born 05 Aug 1655 and died 03 May 1712, who married 1st wife Alice GODFREY whom I am descended from and his 2nd wife is Elizabeth (SHAW)POOL.
Peter HOLBROOK and Alice GODFREY had a son named Peter who was
born 16 Oct 1681 and died 24 Dec 1728. This second Peter in my line married Hannah POOL on 23 Mar 1713.
Peter and Hannah also had a son named Peter who was born on 26 Nov 1713 and died 13 July 1792. This third Peter married Sarah CLARKE on 27 Jan 1736.
Peter and Sarah CLARKE had a son named Stephen HOLBROOK who was born on 30 Apr 1737 and died 11 June 1812. Stephen married Rachel COOK on 17 July 1762. He fought in the Revolutionary War as a Corporal and is listed in Graves of Revolutionary War Patriots.
Stephen and Rachel COOK had a son named Simeon HOLBROOK who was born 01 Sep 1772. Simeon's first wife was Lois HUTCHINSON whom he married on 15 May 1798 who died in childbirth with their first child who also died. He then married Catherine HILL on 22 May 1806.
Simeon and Catherine HILL had a son named Simeon George HOLBROOK who was born on 14 Apr 1811 and died 10 Dec 1887. Simeon George HOLBROOK married Murtilla SEAWARD on 24 Dec 1840 and they were divorced prior to 1860. I am descended directly through Simeon George HOLBROOK.
Simeon George had an older brother named Christopher Gore HOLBROOK who
was born 6 Mar 1809. Christopher Gore HOLBROOK married Caroline Marsh Lazelle on 6 July 1841. Christopher Gore Holbrook died at Alexandria,
SD on 28 Feb 1893. I will tell of his offspring in a history of him and his family later.
Simeon George and Murtilla SEAWARD had a son named George Simeon
HOLBROOK born on 06 Jan 1846 and died 31 Jan 1923. George Simeon HOLBROOK married Jane Ann BROMHEAD 19 Nov 1871 first and when she died he then married Emma Katherine RICHARDSON.
George Simeon HOLBROOK and Jane Ann BROMHEAD had a daughter named Grace Lenore HOLBROOK born on 08 Dec 1873 and died 16 Aug 1960. Grace Lenore HOLBROOK married Peter KENDRICK on 25 Sep 1893.
Grace Lenore HOLBROOK and her sister Gladys Eva HOLBROOK were the last of the HOLBROOK's in my line. Grace Lenore HOLBROOK KENDRICK was my grandmother, she and my grandfather Peter KENDRICK had 5 son's. The oldest was George Frank born 28 Nov 1894, then Allen born 4 Oct 1896 and died 1 June 1900, Peter William (Bill) born 16 Mar 1898, Arthur Gilbert born 19 Feb 1901, and my father who was the youngest, Paul KENDRICK who was born 25 Jan 1914 and died 12 Jan 1977 married Betty Ann MYERS on 21 Sept 1942.
Paul and Betty Ann MYERS had three children Barbara Lynne born 31 Aug 1946, Peter David born on 14 Dec 1948, and myself Shirley Louise KENDRICK born 21 July 1951. This is my family line without
going back to my English roots of which I have no documentation.
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I am now entering the LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THOMAS HOLBROOKE.
I copied this from the Genealogy Library in Philadelphia, PA. They have a photo copy of the original.
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In the name of God Amen, The thirtie first of December in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred and Eight Thomas Holbrooke of Weymouth in New England being Sick and weake in body but of a good and perfect memory Thanks be to the Lord, & minding the uncertaine Estate of this Transitory Life & desiring to Settle that Estate that God hath blessed me with all. Doe make this my Last will & Testament in manner and forme following. Committing my Soule to almighty God through Christ my Saviour & Redeemer & my body to decent buriall and for the settling of my Temporall Estate I do order Give and dispose the same in manner and forme following That is to say first I will that my debts and funerall Expenses be truly paid out of my Estate.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto Jane my beloved wife during her Life my whole Estate of what quality and quantity soever the Same to be at her dispose for her necessary & comfortable maintenance and do request my Son John Holbrooke my Son William Holbrooke & my Son Thomas Holbrooke to be helpfull to my wife in assisting of her in what she may have occasion to dispose of for her Subsistance & comfortable maintenance during her life and give their mother the best advice as she is ancient and weake of body Suitable to her necessity without being burthen some to any.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Endeared Children all my Estate
of what quality and quantity whatsoever the Same Shall be that Shall remaine at my wife Janes Decease there being Six of them Three Sons & Three daughters. To be Equally divided between them alwaies provided that my Eldest Son John Holbrooke Shall have a double portion and the rest of my Estate to be Equally divided namely unto my Son William Holbrooke unto my Son Thomas Holbrooke unto my daughter Annie Reynolds unto my daughter Elizabeth Hatch and unto my daughter Jane Drake. To be equally divided amongst them as neare as may be, and in Case any Sons or daughters should decease before my wife Jame, Then their respective Children and my Grand children.
Item. I Give unto my Grandchilde John Holbrooke the Eldest my Sword.
Item. I Give unto my Grandchilde Peter Holbrooke my Gun & my gray
mares colt.
Item. I Give unto my Grandchilde William Holbrooke my musket.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren that Shall be Living at my wife Janes Decease Two Shillings a piece.
Item. I do Hereby make & ordaine my loving wife the above said Jane Holbrooke Executrix during her Life and at her decease I do appoint make and ordaine Executor of this my Last Will & Testament my loving Son John Holbrooke whome I do order and intreate to perform this my will and pay the Legacies out of my whole Estate of what Shall remaine at my wifes decease.
In witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seale the day and yeare before written as in the other side my Loving Son John Holbrooke was Enterlined in the 42d line before the Signing & Sealing hereof Published
Signed & Sealed in the presence of Us (The mark of Thomas T. H.
Holbrooke)
The mark of Rebecca R. B. Burrell
William Chard
Whereas Peter Holbrook my Grandchild hath been as a Servant & hath bene helpful to Thomas Holbrooke & my wife Jane in our old age for the space of about Eight yeares before the date of these presents and still remaines with us as a dutifull child I Thomas Holbrook Senior the Thirty first of December 1673 do will & bequeath unto my beloved Grandchilde Peter Holbrook his heires and assignes my dwelling house and three acres of Orchard & arable land scittuate & being in Weymouth
bounded with Edward Kingman's Land & the River Northerly & Easterly
& the Highway Southerly & the river westerly or the creeke descending from the River as the said Peter Holbrookes propper Estate of Inheritance to have & to hold after the decease of me. Thomas Holbrooke & Jane my wife & not before. And I Thomas Holbrooke do hereby declare not to alter in any particular from my aforesaid will Dated this day. Was five yeares Since but in this respect as afore written. Concerning my beloved son & grandchilde Peter Holbrooke which accordingly I do desire my Son John Holbrooke as Executor in all points to fulfill Dated the 31st of December as above written in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand Six hundred Seventy and three.
Published Signed & Sealed in the presence of us
Thomas While
William Chard. Seal of Thomas Holbrook
T.H.
I tried to type it the way it was written in the olde English.
I will add the inventory later as I have time. Come again!!!
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