My great-grandfather, George Brooks, married Theresa Trowbridge, 1882, Holborn, MDX. They had one child, George Trowbridge Brooks. Theresa died within a short time after the birth of her son and a few years later George Brooks married widow, Sarah Ann Brown nee Cole who was from Leyton, Essex. Sarah had married George Pearce Brown and they had one child, Annie.

After her marriage to George Brooks, Sarah went on to have more children, all born in Walthamstow, Essex. Edwin, Arthur, born 1892, twins Florence and Mabel, Thomas and I have an idea there was also John. I know that George Trowbridge Brooks the eldest married first cousin Louie Brooks who was the daughter of Isaac Thomas Brooks. In the early 1930's they were living in Highbury Street or Road in Islington. Thomas the youngest married Dorothy.

I believe there were two sets of twins. Florence and Mabel, however, my grandparents spoke of my grandfather as having a twin brother but I have never worked out if my grandfather was a twin or that the twin brother was with one of the others.

My grandparents immigrated to NZ. Because she was so terribly homesick my grandmother stopped writing and got on with raising her family. After WW2 she wrote again to see if they were ok but there was never a response. As they all lived in East London or Essex then the chances are that if they had survived they were relocated.

I have been able to work out the line of descent to the current generation for Annie Brown aka Brooks and of course my grandfather Arthur, but I have come to a grinding halt on the rest of them. The younger ones appear in the 1911 census and based on what I knew about George - that his wife's name was Louie and she was a first cousin I was able to track the marriage and confirmed it when I found that both George junior's father and Louie's father Isaac Thomas had the same parents.