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REVIEWS John Brooke (1638-16)9) and Frances Morton of t hillock and Hag)’, Yorkshire, and Sons James and Matthew Brooke of Limerick, Pennsylva¬ nia. By William Brooke Fetters. Anundsen Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa, 2009. xvi+329, index, hardbound. $29.00 plus $3.50 postage and handling; order from the author, 10450 Lottsford Road, #5017, Mitchcllville, MI) 20721. Mr. Fetters continues with his thorough publications on his ancestry,1 in this volume tracing his maternal Brooke line (his mother’s maiden name and his own middle name). Both the Acknowledgments and the Introduction should be consulted for an explanation of the various con¬ tributors to the research. These include an American-penned history of the family in an appendix to the published Kirkburton, Yorkshire, regis¬ ters, that utilized manor court rolls, providing six generations of York¬ shire ancestry. Unfortunately, the author chose to deviate in numbering generations from the standard that is used in scholarly publications such as PGM and widely understood by genealogists. All American Brooke generations in the volume should be increased by I (the immigrant should have been Brooke, etc.); likewise, the European generations John1 Brooke, not should have used letters for generations (the father of the immigrant Brooke, not James'1, etc.). John1 Brooke The immigrants were Quakers John1 and Frances (Morton) Brooke, Yorkshire residents from the area southeast of Huddersfield, who sailed from Liverpool in 1699 on the Britannia with their youngest sons, James and Matthew (both single young adults), leaving three married children behind in Yorkshire. John had a warrant for 750 acres in Pennsylvania. Many Britannia passengers died onboard of a disease; John and Frances died soon after arrival. James and Matthew left numerous descendants. Fetters’ maternal and paternal ancestry has several interesting connec¬ tions. In this case he found that the passengers on the Britannia— in addi¬ tion to maternal family John, Frances, and sons— also included six paternal ancestors. A useful appendix presents pertinent records identifying many passengers known or thought to be on the Britannia. John0 wasJamesA i For information on some of his earlier works, see PGM 42(2001):187-88; 43(2002):94; 43(2003):185;45(2007):93-94. 192 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46 (2009)