Grace... Wheeler or Cunliffe?

This site: http://www.tributaries.us/secondsite/founders2-o/p163.htm#i1622

fairly convincingly argues for the Cunliffe side of things. There are quite a few message boards around the internet where people seem quite confused about the identity of Grace Wheeler and who she married, and I haven't seen anybody back up the Wheeler assertion with any evidence.

I'm inclined to go with the opinions of the above website. I've spent about a half hour going through their citations. That site claims that the Wheeler error started with a 1835 book by Lemuel Shattuck about the history of Concord, but I couldn't find such an error in the scans on the internet.

Meanwhile, the Cunliffe citation comes from marriage records in Manchester. I couldn't seem to find the book by John Brooks Threlfall on the internet, so if anyone has it I'd be curious how exactly he identifies the marriage in Manchester with this Thomas Brooks.

Private User

I've chatted with Private User about this and we both agree with your points and source citation.

However in adjustting the profiles on geni, we're running into a Henry Brooks, of Woburn issue -- because he is also widely reported to have been married to Grace Wheeler, although it looks like his Grace was of unknown parents.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tChAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=P...

So I need to make the

Sorry - to continue - we need to make sure the children are on the right parents. The better the documentation in the "about me" and attached as sources, the easier it will be to upkeep this clean in the future. Help appreciated and welcome.

I also thank you personally, Tom, as Henry Brooks (brother? Cousin?) of Thomas Brooks of Concord is my 10th great grandfather.

Thanks for taking care of this. It's especially important to me, as right now the tree lists his daughter, Mary Brooks (my 8th great-grandmother), as married to her own uncle, Timothy Wheeler. I'd rather not be a child of incest.

It's going to take some tree cleaning! Do you have any clues on the third Grace Wheeler? Is she a daughter of Thomas "the elder" Wheeler and Rebecca Sayre?

thank you both... I too am a descendant of this line ...

Tambra R Cabiles

Can you take a look at this branch of the tree and see if there are any outstanding issues?

Yes I can... how do i become a Curator?

You don't need curator rights for this kind of cleanup, just edit rights to the profiles, and / or PRO rights to disconnect improper family attachments. And of course I'm glad to assist by notification on this discussion.

I like documenting first, tree cleaning after, as that way I have the right references available.

How to become a curator is outlined here:
http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Curators

Thank you :)

I am the researcher whose 20+ years of research into early Brooks families of New England is plagiarized without attribution on this profile. I'm the source of the name Cunliffe and all of the material here which can be proven to be factual — as differentiated from that which is pure invention or cut-and-paste pseudo-scholarship. The internet's a wonderful medium, but it makes it frightfully easy to circulate and re-circulate canards about early immigrants to New England which have no basis in fact. If you, dear reader, want to decide who's "right" by simply counting mass circulation, then the canards will win and you can ignore the remainder of this posting. There are thousands of Ancestral File submissions which recite that Thomas Brooks married Grace Wheeler. I will guarantee you that none of these submitters have been in personal contact with the archivist of Manchester Cathedral, where the marriage record of Thomas Brooks and Grace Cunliffe is found, as I have. By the way, after 20+ years of looking, it's the only marriage of a Thomas Brooks and a Grace which has been found in England in the correct time period.

I won't live long enough to rebut even a fraction of the Ancestral File claims, but I do have a book on Capt. Thomas Brooks in preparation. You can find a meticulously sourced and documented account of Thomas and his descendants through 4 generations at my web site, including the yDNA research which establishes his relationship to Henry Brooks, here:

http://www.tributaries.us/index.htm

Thomas is the uppermost entry in the Massachusetts box of the founders table. Henry, who was his 1st cousin, is the line below. Read up, enjoy the documentation, and please don't fail to credit where you found the information, so that other wanderers in historical time and space can find their way to the oasis and drink of its waters. If you want a gold star for careful scholarship, please read the site FAQ. There's a "can't miss it" link to the FAQ at the bottom of the site's main page.

I rest my case.

@Christopher Brooks: link to your article on Thomas Brooks (my 8th great, through Gershom) doesn't work.

@Art Brooks, the Tributaries domain name suffix changed from .us to .info several years back. Erica "The Disconnectrix" Howton has the correct, up-do-date (Sep 2016) link on the Overivew tab, or you can simply Google "Brooks genealogy New England," and the Tributaries site will come up as the top hit.