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AMERICAN BROOKING SOCIETY 
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The Brooking Society
A Society for all who are related to or are interested in the Brooking Family
The Brooking Society was founded in 1983 by a group of amateur genealogists who were researching their Brooking connections. It now has over 200 members in many different countries. The majority are in the U.K. but in particular there are many members in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; others are in Brazil, South Africa, etc. etc.The society pursues research into Brooking and related families, including Brooking variants such as Brookin, Brookins, Brookens, Brookings, Brookling, Brooklyn, Bruckin etc. The results are published in the society's journal, "The Brooking Family Historian" which is mailed free three times a year to all members.
The society possesses a large archive of Brooking material including more than 1200 family charts, photographs, and many other documents.
A reunion is held every year, In even years (e.g. 2012) a weekend long meeting is held in Devon, the heartland of the family. At such meetings the programme includes visits to places of Brooking interest, talks on Brooking history and the local area, a dinner, and of course the official Annual General Meeting at which officers report to the membership and elections are held for the committee. In odd years (e.g.2013) a one-day meeting is held usually outside Devon, this will also include talks and the A.G.M. We are fortunate in usually having overseas members present at our meetings.
Subscriptions.
U.K. Individual member £7.50
U.K. Family membership (members at one address) £9.00
U.K. Concessionary rates for students and senior citizens £6.00
Overseas Individual £11.50
Overseas Family £13.00
Overseas Concessionary rates for students and senior citizens £9.00
We regret that due to high currency conversion costs we require subscriptions to be paid in sterling. We have co-ordinators in The United States, New Zealand and Australia to whom subscriptions can be paid in local currency. Payment on-line is also possible. Please apply to the Secretary for details.
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Our Journal
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Index Page
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Booklets
The Society also publishes booklets on persons of the wider family who have lived interesting lives.
The first one was on Charles Brooking, the marine painter, booklet illustrated below.
The second, on Robert Brooking, 1813-1893, missionary to Africa & Canada,
can now be ordered from the Secretary for £3.50 and 50p p&p.
The Brooking Arms
This is one form of the Brooking Arms. These arms were used by Rear Admiral Samuel Brooking (1754-1834) though they were only officially granted to his kinsman John Savery Brooking in 1838, they may rightly be used only by John Savery Brooking's direct male descendants. The gold scallop shell above the crest is usually considered to be a symbol of pilgrimage, and the blue crescent there-in is often used as a mark of difference denoting that the bearer is a descendant of the original bearer. Other arms have been used by branches of the Brooking family, usually based on a similar shield with a different crest.
Notable Brooking family members
Click here to see the details of some well known family members.
Our Library & Archive
Thanks to the Internet, the collection grew quite rapidly and now includes books
from every continent. We still keep finding new books, but at a slower pace.
A number of the books are privately printed biographies and genealogies in small
editions donated by members.
We also collect press cuttings, ephemera from various Brooking enterprises,
print-outs from the Internet, magazines with articles related to Brookings
and many other things. The aim is to create a Library and Archive that can be
a source for future researchers.
We happily accept old photo albums (which find their way into our extensive Photographic Archive), diaries, autobiographies (printed, typed or hand-written) etc. from members.
New acquisitions to the Library are regularly reported in our journal and the Library
and Archive are constant sources of information and inspiration.
If you know of books and material mentioned above please contact Thorsten Sjölin at:
thorsten.sjolin@btinternet.com
To see a list of the items in the library Click here
'Brooking Geography'
The 2012 Reunion will be on Friday 18 - Sunday 20 May 2012
'The BROOKING COLLECTION' To Quote: Click here to find out about THE BROOKING COLLECTION Note: the Society visited THE BROOOKING COLLECTION on 17 September 2011
Charles Brooking - Famous 18th. century Marine Artist
Click here to find out about him.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Charles Brooking and the 260th anniversary
A plaque to commemorate the life of Charles Brooking can now be seen in the City of London,
In 2000 we realised that there were many authors in the extended Brooking Family
so it was decided to start a collection of books by and about people with the name
of Brooking and spelling variants like Brookings, Brookin etc.
Thorsten Sjölin has collected together 'Brooking' references from around the World. To see the references Click here
The reunion will be held at The Blagdon Inn, Totnes Road, Paignton, Devon TQ4 7PW
The details of the program will be available shortly.
"Charles Brooking has made a lifetime's study of historic architectural detail, with a particular focus
on the myriad variations in their fittings over the past five hundred years."
of the death of his colleague Peter Monamy an exhibition of paintings by both artists,
some of which have never been shown before, was held at the St. Barbe Museum at Lymington,
Hants from 15 August to 17 October 2009.
The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, written by leading experts
on Brooking & Monamy, with all paintings reproduced in colour. The catalogue is still available
from the St Barbe at a cost of £8 plus p&p.
The Brooking Society produced a booklet, illustrated in colour and b/w, with a lot of new information
about Charles Brooking and his family. It was sent free to all members, but is still available
to other interested parties at £3.50 plus p&p.
in Tokenhouse Yard just behind the Bank of England.
The formal unveiling by the Lord Mayor of the City of London took place on Monday 20th, October 2008.
 The Charles Brooking Plaque |
The Charles Brooking Booklet |
Also: the Foundling Museum has a fine Charles Brooking painting in its picture gallery.
Robert Brooking - Missionary in Africa and Canada
The Society has produced a booklet about Robert Brooking (available at £3.50 plus postage)
Genealogical Information: (Frequently being updated).
SURNAME LISTS
The Brooking family is split into about 20 branches,
with each branch coming from a different village or town.
The links between the branches are conjectural, but DNA testing is helping to join the branches together.
The map shows where 9 branches arose.
and Branch R contains families with the surname Brookens.
AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES.
CENSUS INFORMATION
Click here to see the censuses for England & Wales.
Click here for the USA 1880 Census details.
The Brooking Society carried out a small genetic study among its members in 2002.
Click here to see the full 2003 report.
The DACRES and OLIVIER familes
LINKS:
The Brooking Society is a member society of
Please contact the secretary for further information about membership,
To submit e-mails and articles to the Journal,
And, contact the record keeper for information from the charts
To see a set of maps showing the distribution of 'BROOKING' and other families:
GENETIC INFORMATION
We tested subjects from 7 different branches - B, I, G, J, L, N, and S
The 2002 results are available by clicking here.
The 2004 results,
the 2005 results,
the 2006 results,
and the 2008 results.
There is a tenuous link to the very interesting DACRES and OLIVIER families.
For details click on the image of Sir Laurence Olivier.
THE FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES.
Click here to link to their site.
E-MAIL CONTACTS:
Click here to contact Mary Logan,
Click here to contact John Brooking.
or to comment about these pages.
Click here to contact Ian Logan.