Hello!

What a snazzy site! My granfather was James Stephen Rushbrooke, and I'm the only son of his youngest daughter, Sharon Rushbrooke. He was from the Walton area of Felixstowe.

Hi - on the expanded Newman tree of families in Suffolk, we have Naomi Newman b1845 Trimley marrying a William Rushbrook b 1840, and having a daughter Naomi, who subsequently marries a stepson of her mother's sister ( Joseph Davey). Any information relating to William, or Naomi and Joseph most welcome. Many thanks. Helen

Hi,my name is Lynne and I am the last Rushbrooke in my line..the name has not been carried on.Perhaps my son should have it included?Anyway, my GF was Edmund George born in 1875 on St.Paddy's day.>hsi siblings are:

1)Elizabeth E..........................1868

2)Sarah A.................................1870

3)Robert W...............................1872

4)Alice J...................................1873

5)Edmund G...........................1875

6)Ellen R..................................1879

7)eEdith Ann............................1881

If anyone can fill in the blanks,I certainly will appreciate it.

Thanks so much

Lynne Lamontagne

Ontario,Canada

Jerimiah Rosbrook 1709/10 - 1781 married 1732/33 All Saints Barrow, Suffolk, Mary Wells 1710- 1793. They had 8 children - George 1734, Mary 1735, Phillip 1738, John 1739, William 1743, Anne 1745, Jeremiah 1747, James1749

I have followed as many of these descendants as possible.

Happy to share info

I have been asked by my son's father-in-law to research a gentleman named Robin V Rushbrooke, who, as far as he knows, was a distant relative of the Greene King family. Mr Rushbrooke, who is probably now in his 70's, worked in the City but moved to Bury St Edmunds some years ago. I have not been able to trace him through any of the usual research tools.

Gret site. Finally an alternative to the Scotland line!! I have emailed you separately re the impasse I have hit at Henry Rushbrook (1810-1881), m. to Sarah Kirk then Mary Walker. All this based in Erith, Kent.

Regards

Alan

Hi Nicola

re-Alan Rushbrook i am one of the descendants of Henry (Hugh) 1810-1881. I have lots of info Alan if you are interested, unfortunatly I think you will find this is connencted to Scotland de Rushbrooke.

If anyone has tried to email me recently on the address on the homepage, please note taht for some reason the ISP has made it inactive, although I can send from it!! At present I'm waiting for a response to my request for it to be reactivated. Hopefully it will be working by the end of the weekend. Otherwise I will change the address on the homepage for another. If you've tried emailing me recently and not got a response, please try again next week.

Thanks

Nicola

Hi Paul

Unfortunately every time I ask someone about their primary source material leading back to Scotland de Rushbrooke they never answer so you can see why I get a little annoyed about this. If you can enlighten me on the details back from the Barking family and the primary source material available, I would be delighted but please email the address on the homepage. Please don't clog up the guestbook with the details, its simply for short comments and requests.

I would be interested to know how you connect the Barking Rushbrooks into the Suffolk line as I've found references that could leave them in Essex back to the 1600s anyway.

Nicola

Hi I am sitting here on new year day having fed my new wifes mum and sister , I then started to grill mum in law about her family from Battersea.She mentioned that her half sister married a Rushbrook from wandsworth/ Battersea George by Name born about 1920.My ears pricked up as I have Rushbrooks in my tree and was born in Gt Whelnetham my Mum was From Lt Whelnetham.Cheers gerald

Sitting here in sunny Somerset filling in my mother's cousin's Rushbrook ancestors. Her father was Edward Eric born 1907 in Croydon, Surrey. His father was Edward Charles born c1870 Wetherden, Suffolk. His father appears to be Edward born c1848 Wetherden. They weren't very good at filling in census returns it seems to me!

Hi Nicola, Thanks to your pointers I've managed to find more of the Wetherden Rushbrook/Bryant family both in the census and in FreeBMD. Confusing aren't they. I did reply to your e-mail but have no idea if that got through. Thanks for your help.

To Janet Young (comment posted in 2008) - Myself and my fiance have recently purchased a flat in Notting Hill from a Robert (Robin) V Rushbrooke who seemed to have worked in the city and was originally from and moved back to the Bury St Edmunds area. If you wanted to get in contact with him you should contact Greene and Greene Solicitors in Bury StEdmunds who are currently acting on his behalf. We were intrigued about the previous owner of our flat and after a google search we were led to this website - hope this is of some use. Thanks.

Although only tenuously contected to the Raishbrooks I know have an extensive family tree for them. They appear to have originated from the the marriage of Eliza Pryke to George Raishbrook - the surname probably being changed from Rushbrook at the time of their marriage or thereabouts. Anyone with the surname Raishbrook will be linked back to this couple who married in 1830. Anyone wanting info can contact me direct on heatherscards@hotmail.com.

Heather

Hi Heather

Only the first six known children to George and Eliza were actually George's children (namely, Eliza, George William, Eliza (2nd), Robert, William, William(2nd). Those from Henry Carder Raishbrook onwards through to Arthur Carder Raishbrook were all the illegitimate children of Eliza and John Henry Carder who eventually married in 1863. While the baptisms and birth certificates state their father was George, it is now generally accepted because of the middle name given to albut one, that their father was actually John Henry Carder. I suspect that George Raishbrook probably died around 1863 hence the late marriage to avoid a bigamous one. However no death has yet been found.

To anyone interested in George and Eliza's children (unfortunately not the later ones as their father was John Henry Carder) I do have an ancestral line for George in Essex. Please email the address on the homepage detailing which of his children and grandchildren you are descended from.

Nicola