Bennetta BROOKE

Bennetta BROOKE

Female 1504 - 1560  (56 years)

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  • Name Bennetta BROOKE 
    Born 1504 
    Gender Female 
    Died 9 Jun 1560  Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I11848  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2012 

    Father John BROOKE,   b. Bef 1480 
    Family ID F3576  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Stephen HOUGHAM,   b. Abt 1500, Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1556, Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth HOUGHAM,   b. Abt 1527, Ash, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1556, Ash, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 29 years)
     2. Michael HOUGHAM,   d. Dec 1583
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F3515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • South transept of Ash Church

      Daughter of John Brooke of Brooke Street Ash. She was buried in Ash church 9 June 1560
      Her will was proved 14 Oct 1560
      She is recorded in Knights visitation 1619 as wife of Stephen Hougham and after the death of her nephew, she or her descendants become heirs of the Brooke coat of Arms as he is the last male Brooke. The same thing is explained by the Brook wills. John Brook, her father, was father of John Brooke who was married to her husband's sister Joan. John and Joan had a son John who died 16 Jan 1583 will proved 7 Feb 1583. Thus from 1583 the Brooke coat is quartered with Hougham. The son of Benetta (Michael, died in Dec 1583) entitled to the quartering as were all his descendants. Her will was proved 14 Oct 1560 she names herself in it "Benedict Huffam, widow" and desires to be buried near her husband in Ash church. She mentions Michael and Richard, Joan, Margaret and Elizabeth Solly, her daughters children and Bennet, Daughter of Michael