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Mary (Collins) Brockman (abt. 1690 - 1766)

Mary Brockman formerly Collins
Born about in New Kent, Virginia, British Colonial Americamap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1710 in King and Queen County, Virginia, British Colonial Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 76 in Monrovia, Orange, Virginia, British Colonial Americamap
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Biography

Mary Collins, daughter of Capt. Joseph Collins, was born in Virginia.[1]

The following information was gathered in 2014 by Fred Prisley from Brockman family genealogist Paul R. Brockman's postings on GenForum:[2]

About 1680-1685 -- Mary Collins was most likely born in that part of New Kent County, Virginia which would become King and Queen County in 1691.

One source has this Mary Collins as the daughter of Joseph Collins and Catherine Robertson (or Robinson). [3]

Mary Collins and Samuell Brockman were married[1] about 1710 at probably Drysdale parish, in the part of King and Queen County that would become Caroline County, Virginia in 1727. Though the date and place of the marriage of Mary Collins Brockman and Samuell Brockman is not on any surviving record, [4] the disposition of their estates leaves no doubt that Mary was the mother of all eight of Samuel's children:

  1. Susannah (1711-1750) - m. James Haley
  2. Sarah (14 Nov 1714-after 1796) - m. John Henderson
  3. Elizabeth (1715-1793) - m. Anthony Street
  4. John (about 1715-about 1796) - m. Mary Collins II, d. 1755
  5. Samuel II (1717-1790) - m1. Mary Woolfolk, m2. Rebecca Graves
  6. Mary (1718-1774) - m. Richard Hunt Singleton
  7. William (1718-1809) - m. Elizabeth Mason
  8. Rachel (1729-?) - m. ____ Rogers


Susannah is the only child not mentioned in her father’s will, possibly because she, like her brother John, died before 1762 when Samuel wrote his will; and probably because she had no heirs, unlike John who died leaving 11 children.

1732 -- Samuell and Mary Collins Brockman bought land that is now called Greenway in Monrovia, Orange County, Virginia from their son-in-law John Henderson.

1734 -- Samuell and Mary Collins Brockman moved to what is now called Greenway, in Monrovia, Orange County, Virginia, the same year Orange County was created from Spotsylvania County.

15 Jan 1766 -- Mary Collins Brockman died at her home Greenway, Monrovia, Orange County, Virginia.

Research Notes

Note from Find A Grave Memorial: "There is a document from about 1730 which names Mary Brockman, wife of Samuel as a daughter of Joseph Collins, Sr. of Caroline Co. The male line of the family resident at "Greenway" since Samuel and Mary bought the place from John and Sarah in 1732 and moved there in 1734--up until the death of Kenneth C. Brockman on Dec. 7, 1971, passed the information on this relationship, father to son, for over 200 years.

Note: There is no record of a daughter named "Eleanor," or a daughter named "Betty E;" though it is possible "Betty" was a nickname for Elizabeth.

Is the son Joseph, (1743-1834) identified in the basic information, but not in the biography, not really a son of their couple? Or did they have a son Joseph died young without heirs? Did Mary Collins name a son for her father? The Joseph shown married and had children. Should that Joseph be removed as one of their children? If Mary was born as early as 1680, the Joseph listed cannot be her son, born when she was age 63. Although 1695 would be a possibility for her birth, she still would have been pretty old to have a child in 1743, with her age at 48.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Alabama, Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981, from Ancestry.com, apparently based on History of the Hume, Kennedy and Brockman Families, by Brockman, William Everett, Washington, D. C., 1916; (see also Capt. Joseph Collins #14, same source
  2. Genealogy.com Re: Mary Brockman, was she Mary Bell?, by Pat, 19 Nov 2013
  3. William Brockman Bankhead, by Paul F. Goodridge, Page Publishing Inc, 2015
  4. Possible marriage date of 1734 from http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/4adb1337-721f-4aec-914b-5930ed7def4a/86247368/200026334543?_phsrc=gKW11944&usePUBJs=true

See also:

Acknowledgements

  • WikiTree profile Collins-3291 created through the import of mom_2012-08-01.ged on Aug 2, 2012 by John Stroud.
  • WikiTree profile Henderson-3228 created through the import of MFBethel.ged on Sep 19, 2012 by Mary Wood.
  • Thank you to Bob Nichol for creating WikiTree profile Collins-4338 through the import of Hamilton.ged on Mar 9, 2013.
  • WikiTree profile Collins-1827 created through the import of Gedcom ONE for WikiTree.ged on Aug 7, 2011 by Dolores M. Pringle Pringle. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Dolores M. Pringle and others.
  • GEDCOM import. User ID B0B123CB0E184606A235D83CAF17A2E6FA24. Prior to import, this record was last changed 21:09 16 Mar 2011.
  • Family Data Collection - Individual Records Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
  • Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.




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She is born the same year as her "mother" - Catherine Robertson. Recommend removing the connection as part of the Collins clean-up
posted by Terri (Lewis) Stern
Looks like on her Geni profile it has her parents listed as John Madison, II and Isabella Minor Madison.

"Mary Alice Brockman." Geni. Accessed July 26th, 2018. https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Brockman/6000000002980119141.

posted by Erik Granstrom
Collins-3291 and Collins-1827 appear to represent the same person because: This appears to be the same person.
posted by Bob Nichol
Collins-4338 and Collins-3291 appear to represent the same person because: Appear to be same person
posted by Bob Nichol

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