Brooke and Tucker Families Papers, 1831-2001 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Sarah Osorio

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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

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".