Captain Edward Brock - CAPTAIN EDWARD BROCk

Can find nothing on Origins.

Clearly associated with Colonel Ninian Beall & (perhaps the 2nd) Mareen Duvall "The Elder" - prominent men of the Colony. Sadly, this may shed no light on his origins ... What was his religion ?

So far I have been unable to identify his religion.

He’s called “an Irishman” in this genealogy with no parents identified:

https://books.google.com/books?id=tdtVDX2zG38C&lpg=PA145&ot...

“Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Jeff Carter McFarland, Jan 10, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 224 pages
4 Reviews

.... During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family’s genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter’s son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors ...

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I’ll also go into Archives of Maryland and look for DNA studies, but let’s put it like this: Jeff Carter has access to top American genealogists. So even if the original IGI work done for his father in the 1970s had errors, the 2014 date stamp of this (well received) publication suggests “we don’t know his origins” to me.

His son in law William Offutt was a “staunch Presbyterian,” which suggests similar religion for Capt. Edward Brock.

http://www.librarything.com/work/12579778/reviews/103753336 Reviews of Jeff Carter’s book, including good summaries of it. This if of interest to many of us with Southern USA background.

This comment is especially relevant to this Brock / Offutt line, perhaps:

“All of President Carter’s European ancestors came from the British Isles. Many were English, but many others were “Scotch-Irish” (Ulster Presbyterians). ...”

A “before 1672” arrival does suggest to me an Ulster Plantation Birth or sojourn, but of course that’s just a guess.

Is there any evidence on the proposed parent side to indicate they had a son called Edward? John Brock in Glasgow & Marie Hamilton ?

I do not see that male Brock’s in Scotland have tested Y DNA with the ftDNA vendor. As Capt. Edward had no male descendants, this would be a difficult case to make via DNA studies in any event.

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/brock?iframe=yresults

It appears possible that the wife of Edward Brock (perhaps her name was Sarah) had been married previously to an Evans; with a daughter Mary Evans married a John Demall Jr. However the relationships are not yet clear to me.

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0929...

Mrs. Mary Demall 30.72 PG £391.15.10 Jul 30 1740 Sep 1 1740
Appraisers: John Lamarames Waring.
Creditors: Pat. Sims, Samuel Magruder, Jr.
Next of kin: Mary Offut (sister), Brock Mackbee, Edward Mackbee.
Executor: Mr. William Smith.

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https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwenbj&id...

I'll show why I believe Brock and Edward MOCKBEE were children
of Mary's half (or step) sister Jane (BROCKE) MOCKBEE and that Ann (EVANS) POTTENGER was Mary's niece, daughter of Mary's brother Richard.]

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwenbj&id...

“Skordas gives the two names blotted on the microfilm as Sarah MILES and William EVANS. [Note this is very clearly written BROOKE. I haven't found any further records of an Edward BROOKE in Calvert County, and based on records below, believe the clerk misread the original of BROCKE in copying this into the patent book. I believe all the EVANS to be his step-children, or perhaps one (Sarah?) was his wife and transported before marriage. I believe the Richard to be the Richard EVANS who was father of Ann EVANS who married Robert POTTENGER. I believe Mary EVANS to be the wife of John DEMALL, Jr.] from Frederic Z. Saunders.

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Mary Jane Williams Would be the mother of this John Demall.

Linda Kathleen Thompson, (c) Is it this James Williams the same as the one described here?

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0120...

There’s a rather dramatic story about the Mogbee children of Miss Brock (also could help establish a timeline for Brock’s wife).

“Jane, widow of Matthew Mockbee that died Bef. May 16, 1709 in Prince George's County, MD., is not the daughter of Capt. Edward Brock.

The daughter of Capt. Brock that married Matthew Mockbee is unknown as far as her given name. Miss Brock married Matthew Mockbee and had two sons Matthew and Brock Mockbee. Then Miss Brock died and Matthew remarried to Jane widow of John Joyce. They had a child together who was very young when Matthew Mockbee died leaving his widow now with 3 small children.”

“Capt Edward Brock wanted custody of his grandsons after their father died so he took them from her and she had to go to court to fight for their custody. Capt. Edward Brock lost the case, but the court couldn't make him return the children to their step-mother.”

The court records of Jane Mockbee

From http://www.reynoldspatova.org/getperson.php?personID=I16944&tre...

Prince George's County March Court 1710
To ye Worshipfull ye Justices of Prince Georges County
and Court Sitting
The Humble Petition of Jane Magbee ye Widdow of Mathew
Mackbee Submissively Sheweth That your Petitioners Husband being dead and thereby Left in a Desolate Condition with three Small Children one of which is a Criple and unable to help himselfe and She haveing at ye time of her husbands decease with her two boyes wch her Said Husband had by a former wife ye Daughter of one Capt Brock of this County who as being their Grandfather pretended to take them away from your Petitioner till a more Just Complaint ware made But now Soe it is may it plase your Worshipps yt within a very Small time after Such Order ye Said boyes wth out ye Knowledge of your Petitioner or any Cause Given by her but as your Petitioner Supposes was by ye fair and insinuateing promises of ye Said Capt Brock Left your Petitioner and went to him and there remains Contrary to your worshipps Order and to ye Great Dam age of your poor Petitioner who hath noe Servt to worke for her whereby to maintaine her Said Children and further the Charge wch did Acrew by ye Said Brock Complaint is Chargd to our Petitioner [PGLR D.276]

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly ____ of your worshipps to Consider her Condition and if you think fitt not to Order ye Children Againe to her as Once you ware Pleased that ye Said Capt Brock may be Compelld to pay the tha he Occationed by his Complaint and to Allow your Petitioner wherewith to mainteine ye Said Small Children he depriveing her of ye means to doe itt other wise and as in Duety bound Shall pray The Petiton being read ordered that Capt Brock deliver the two Orphant Children of Matthew Magbee to ye Said Widdow wch he by soe Clandestine & unjust manner Deteines Contrary to a forme Order of this Court and that he be Served wth a Coppy of this Order [PGLR D.277]