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By Sarah Osorio
Collection Overview
Title: Brooke and Tucker Families Papers, 1831-2001
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-020
Primary Creator: Hagan, Lucy Baker McNamara (1924-2018)
Extent: 5.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged by family surname, then by individual in first name alphabetical order.
Date Acquired: 02/12/2002
Subjects: Brooke family, Families--Virginia, Family trees, Genealogy--Research, Norfolk (Va.)--Genealogy, Tucker family
Forms of Material: Albums (books), Ambrotypes (photographs), Application forms, Bibles, Booklets, Books, Certificates, Clippings (information artifacts), Copybooks (instructional materials), Correspondence, Daguerreotypes (photographs), Dog tags (military tags), Genealogies (histories), Invitations, Notes, Obituaries, Panoramas, Photocopies, Photographs, Postcards, Prints (visual works), Receipts, Recipes, Scrapbooks, Typescripts
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Family papers and photographs from 1831-2001, including genealogical notes, family trees, crests, biographical sketches, and obituaries of the Brooke family of Norfolk, Virginia. Related surnames include Tucker, Andrews, Cary, Coleman, Custis, Dallas, Drummond, Hagan, Higgins, Lucas, McLaughlin, McNamara, Mercer, Ramsey, Randolph, Taliaferro, Walton, and Washington. Most of the materials in the collection relate to Lucy Borland Higgins Brooke, her husband David Tucker Brooke, and her children.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions:
The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source:
Lucy McNamara Hagan by donation
Preferred Citation:
Brooke and Tucker Families Papers, MSS 0000-020, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed September 29, 2021.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Book, Genealogical Fragments, Brooke Family, circa 1928-1929
- Folder 2: Loose Papers from Genealogical Fragments Book, circa 1863-1940
- Folder 3: Book, List of Birthdays and Deaths, Brooke Family, circa 1880-1940
- Folder 4: Book, Narrative of My Life for My Family by Francis T. Brooke, 1849
- Two copies.
- Folder 5: Typescript, A Narrative of My Life For My Family by Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 1973 May
- Folder 6: Clippings, Brooke Family, circa 1900-1975
- Folder 7: Correspondence, Brooke, Tucker, and McLaughlin Families, 1831-1925
- Folder 8: Family Trees, Brooke Family, undated
- Folder 9: Genealogy, Brooke Family, undated
- Folder 10: Excerpt, Brooke's Bank, Interiors of Virginia Houses of Colonial Times by Edith Tunis Sale, undated
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Obituaries, Brooke Family, circa 1860s-1960s
- Folder 2: Photographs, Brooke Family, circa 1880-1930
- Folder 3: Scrapbook, Brooke and Tucker Families, Correspondence, Photographs, and Clippings, circa 1855-1977
- Folder 4: Correspondence, D. Tucker Brooke, 1864-1914, undated
- Folder 5: Photographs, D. Tucker Brooke, circa 1880-1910
- Folder 6: Photographs, Eloise Minor Brooke, circa 1890-1920
- Folder 7: Notes, Eloise Minor Brooke, circa 1930
- Folder 8: Correspondence, Henry L. Brooke to Lizzie Dallas Brooke, 1871 October 23
- Folder 9: Photographs, Henry Laurence Brooke, circa 1885-1920
- Folder 10: Postcards, Quebec and France, From Henry Laurence Brooke, circa 1920
- Folder 11: Photographs, Lena Randolph Brooke, circa 1890-1910
- Folder 12: Cards, Lena Brooke's first Holy Communion, 1903
- Folder 13: Invitation, Marriage of Lena Randolph Brooke to Aloysius Leo McNamara, [1921] June 23
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Report, The Princeton Explosion, For Lena Brooke McNamara, 1952 February 29
- Folder 2: Membership Application, The Jamestowne Society, Lena Brooke McNamara, 1958, 1962
- Folder 3: Photographs, Lena Brooke McNamara, "Goggy", circa 1959-1976
- Folder 4: Correspondence, Lena Brooke McNamara, 1964, 1973
- Folder 5: Correspondence, Sister Bernard to Lucy B. Higgins, 1867-1878, undated
- Folder 6: Bag, Originally contained letters from Sister Bernard to Lucy B. Higgins, circa 1890-1900
- Originally mislabeled with masking tape: "mostly love letters from D. Tucker Brooke to Lucy B. Higgins."
- Folder 7: Correspondence, Lucy Borland Higgins Brooke, 1869-1936, undated
- Folder 8: Copybook, Exercise In Punctuation and Capitals, Lucy Borland Higgins, 1868-1869
- Folder 9: Copybook, Corrected Compositions, Lucy Borland Higgins, 1871
- Folder 10: Copybook, Grammatical Blunders, Lucy Borland Higgins, 1871-1872
- Folder 11: Photographs, Lucy Borland Higgins Brooke, circa 1880-1930
- Folder 12: Membership Application, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lucy Borland Brooke, 1894
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Correspondence, Court Case on taxed inheritance of Lucy Borland Brooke, 1914-1930
- Folder 2: Correspondence, The Fatherless Children of France to Mrs. D. Tucker Brooke, 1918-1924
- Folder 3: Receipts, Mrs. D. Tucker Brooke for The Fatherless Children of France, 1919-1923
- Folder 4: Recipes, Preserves, Lucy Higgins Brooke, undated
- Folder 5: Photographs, Marguerita Custis Brooke Williams, circa 1900-1950
- Folder 6: Photo Album, Rita's Memories of Rest-A-While, Beech, North Carolina, 1917
- Folder 7: Invitation, Wedding of Marguerita Custis Brooke and Leigh Douglas Williams, [1921] October 12
- Folder 8: Certificate of Baptism, Marguerita Custis Brooke, 1960 February 17
- Folder 9: Photographs, May Walton Brooke, circa 1885-1930
- Folder 10: Correspondence, May Walton Brooke to "Aunt Lena" [Evelina Tucker Brooke Lucas], 1894, 1913, undated
- Folder 11: Correspondence, M. J. Haw to St. G. T. Brooke, 1913 August 11
- Folder 12: Biographies, Tucker Family, undated
- Folder 13: Clippings, Tucker Family, circa 1920-1997
- Folder 14: Genealogy, Tucker Family, undated
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Photographs, Tucker Family, undated
- Folder 2: Obituaries, Andrews, Drummond, and Higgins Families, circa 1900
- Folder 3: Genealogy, Andrews, Drummond, and Higgins Families, undated
- Folder 4: History, Cary Family, From Good's Virginia Cousins, pg. 281-283, undated
- Folder 5: Typescript, From diary of Mrs. Charles Washington Coleman, undated
- Folder 6: Book, Story of a Portrait by Mrs. George P. Coleman, 1935
- Folder 7: Correspondence, Janet Coleman Kimbrough to "the Descendants of St. George Tucker of Bermuda and Williamsburg", circa 1976
- Folder 8: Notes and Clippings, Custis Family, circa 1835-1975
- Folder 9: Genealogy, Dallas Family, undated
- Folder 10: Clippings, Drummond Family, circa 1900-1970
- Folder 11: Photographs, Drummond Family, circa 1880-1900
- Folder 12: Photographs, Burial of Alex H. Bell, Elmwood Cemetery, By J. Addison Hagan, 1974 April 16
- Folder 13: Correspondence and Family Trees, Lucy McNamara Hagan to "Dear Children", 2001 October 10
- Folder 14: History, Lucas Family, 1877-1960s
- Folder 15: Book, Mary Ludlow, Baroness von Zollikofer Altenklingen, 1918 April 1
- Two copies.
- Folder 16: Loose Papers Found in Mary Ludlow Book, circa 1932
- Folder 17: Booklet, The Late J. Fairfax McLaughlin, LL. D. of Fordham, New York City, N. Y., 1903
- Folder 18: Obituaries, McLaughlin Family, circa 1903-1962
- Folder 19: Photocopies, George Washington Bicentennial, McLaughlin Family, 1932 April 30
- Folder 20: Photographs, McLaughlin Family, circa 1900-1960
- Folder 21: Correspondence, Mary Armat to Beverly McLaughlin, 1962 May 18
- Folder 22: Photographs, Beverly F. McLaughlin and Nannie Selden Brooke McLaughlin, circa 1870, 1910
- Folder 23: Correspondence, To Nannie S. Brooke, 1863-1867
- Folder 24: Photographs, Selden Brooke McLaughlin, 1909 December
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Correspondence, McNamara Family, 2001
- Folder 2: Genealogy, Aloysius Leo McNamara, undated
- Folder 3: Clippings, Mercer Family, 1905
- Folder 4: Sketch, Ramsey coat of arms, undated
- Folder 5: Genealogy, Randolph Family, undated
- Folder 6: Genealogy, Taliaferro Family, undated
- Folder 7: Genealogy, Walton Family, undated
- Folder 8: Genealogy Notes, Washington Family, undated
- Folder 9: Copies of Telegrams, Port Convoy Officer, Norfolk, 1918 November 12-13
- Folder 10: Paper, Norfolk, circa 1923
- Folder 11: Booklet, Brief Historical Sketch of St. Anne and Her Shrine at Beaupre..., 1892
- Folder 12: Booklet, Historic St. Luke's, circa 1957
- Folder 13: Booklets, Warwick Castle, circa 1950s
- Folder 14: Postcards, Warwick Castle (Set 1 of 2), circa 1950s-1960s
- Folder 15: Postcards, Warwick Castle (Set 2 of 2), circa 1950s-1960s
- Folder 16: Periodical, Imago Mvndi, A Review of Early Cartography, Volume 21, 23, 1967, 1969
- Folder 17: Poetry, Miscellaneous, undated
- Folder 18: Program, The Commonwealth (University) of Virginia To the Members of Minor Chapter, Phi Delta Phi v. Colonial Hotel, 1907 March 30
- Folder 19: Wax Seals, Unidentified Family Crest, undated
- Folder 20: Book, Miscellaneous Verses, undated
- Folder 21: Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes, undated
- Folder 22: Miscellaneous Photographs, unknown, undated
- Folder 23: Negatives, Brooke, Tucker, and Carew, circa 1920s-1930s
- Box 7: Oversized Items
- Folder 1: Photographs, D. Tucker Brooke and Lucy Borland Brooke, undated
- Folder 2: Photograph, Evelina Tucker Lucas, circa 1910-1920
- Folder 3: Photographs, Henry Laurence Brooke, 1910, 1921
- Folder 4: Photograph, Lena Randolph Brooke, circa 1910
- Folder 5: Photograph, Marguerita Custis Brooke Williams, circa 1920-1930
- Folder 6: Photographs, May Walton Brooke and Marguerita Custis Brooke, circa 1910-1920
- Folder 7: Prints, Francis Bland Tucker and St. George Tucker, undated
- Folder 8: Prints, Historic Homes, undated
- Folder 9: Photocopies, Oversized Genealogy Notes, undated
- Folder 10: Panorama, No. 33, Battery B, 111th F. A., Fort McClellan, 1918 May 4
- Folder 11: Family Tree, Royal and Noble Personages connected with the Hundred of Blackheath, undated
- Box 8
- Item 1: Book, Sodality Manual of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Prayer Book, 1905
- Inside inscription "Lucy B. Brooke, April 6, 1913".
- Item 2: Book, The Holy Bible, 1848
- Includes ephemera.
- Item 3: Book, Prayers of St. Gertrude, undated
- Inscription "M. E. Higgins From dear Sr. Isidore".
- Item 4: Daguerreotype, Unidentified Man, undated
- Tarnishing present.
- Item 5: Daguerreotype, Unidentified Woman, undated
- In original case. Extreme tarnishing present.
- Item 6: Ambrotype, Unidentified Couple, circa 1955-1865
- In original case. Case inscribed "Tomlinson Ambrotypes, Patented July 4 & 11, 1854." Photograph cracked from top right diagonally to bottom left.
- Item 7: Ambrotype, Unidentified Teen Boy, undated
- Item 8: Ambrotype, Unidentified Young Girl with Birdcage, undated
- In original case. Case inscribed "Hankins & Clark, Norfolk, VA." Mild deterioration present. Spine of case housed separately.
- Item 9: Dog tags, Henry Laurence Brooke, circa 1920
- Two dog tags: First Lieutenant and Captain, 313 F. A., U. S. A.
- Box 9
- Item 1: Book, The Holy Bible, 1846
- "Ignatius and Jane C. Higgins" printed on front cover. Inside inscription "Mary A. G— from her cousin Jane, 1861".
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