Mary Brooks, wife of Matthew Ford of Wallingford Ct, m 1674

Most genealogies have as Mary's father, John Brooks of Hartford. While John Brooks had a daughter Mary who was a minor when he died and she was born later than this Mary whose father was most likely Henry Brooks of Cheshire or his brother John. The dates for John just don't work. Other genealogies have her as a daughter of John Brooks of New Haven who they claim to be a brother of Henry. I haven't located any information identifying a brother John of Henry, but a son named Henry. It could be that Henry is Mary's grandfather. Henry supposedly served with Cromwell and relocated after the reinstatement of Charles I in 1640. He would then be too old to be the father of Mary. In any case the Hartford Brooks is not the father of Mary who married Matthew Ford. Beware of a lineage done by a Rockey or Rockley as he has Henry Brooks arriving in Connecticut in 1676, far too late to be leaving because of Charles I, and working as a blacksmith or farrier in 1684. He would have been quite elderly by that time.