American Brooking Society

The American Brooking Society maintains records on Brooking immigrants to the
United States and includes research and family trees for people named
Brooking, Brookings, Brookins, Brookens and Brookin.  DNA research has
shown that many Brooking and variant name American families have ancestry in
Devon and the west of England.

Here are the major Brooking Society Branches found in the United States.


Branch NNE 

– These are descendants of Edwin Elliott Brooking who was born
in 1843 in Kingsbridge, Devon, and emigrated to Canada and eventually to the
United States, settling in South Dakota.


Branch R

– This branch includes descendants of Thomas Brookens who was
born in Ireland in 1782 and died in Ohio in 1865.


Branch V

– This branch holds American families with names Brookin, Brookins,
Brooking & Brookings.


-  sub-Branch VA

This sub-branch begins with Philip Brookins of Massachusetts and
Vermont, and may have originated in Boston. DNA does not show a
connection to the Devon Brooking families.


-  sub-Branch VB 

This family begins with Henry Brooking(s) found in Isle of Shoals, Maine,
in 1646. He may be the Henry Brooking born in Yealmpton, Devon, in 1613.


-  sub-Branch VI

This sub-branch holds the descendants of Charles Brookings of Maryland,
born around 1750. This branch includes Robert Somers Brookings who
founded the Brookings Institution.


-  sub-Branch VLI

This sub-branch holds the descendants of Henry Brookins of Ohio, who
died in 1791.


-  sub-Branch VN

This sub-branch holds the descendants of William Brookins of Alabama,
born around 1800.


- sub-Branch VPB

This sub-branch holds the descendants of Benjamin Brookins of Georgia,
born around 1790.


Branches X & Y 

– These branches contain the names of the many thousands of
people who are descended from William Brooking Sr. of King & Queen and
Gloucester Counties, Virginia, who died in 1703, and his sons, Robert Brooking
and William Brooking. Robert Brooking forms Branch Y; William Brooking Jr.
forms Branch X.  Unfortunately, it has still not been possible to prove a definite
link between William Brooking Sr. and the other branches, but he may be the
William Brooking born in 1645 in St Clements Danes parish, Middlesex
(London). The American Brooking Society maintains a database of descendants
that now has around 15,000 names.


Branch W 

(USA Only) – This branch was formed to hold descendants of Sarah
Brooking, born to William Brooking Sr. of Virginia about 1682 and married to
James Rennolds in Essex County, Virginia.

Anyone wishing to learn more about the American Brooking Society please
contact Tony Quinn at: taquinn@att.net


Click here for information from the US 1880 Census
for Brookin, Brookins, Brooking & Brookings families.