One of ten couples that were the ancestors of five American presidents: through son Nathaniel, Rutherford Hayes, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush; through daughter Mary, William Howard Taft and Richard Nixon
'Johan (Joan) [daughter of John and Elizabeth (Whatman) Brooke), bapt. 11 May 1555 [St. Leonard's in Eastcheap], living 1609 when her husband made his will; m. at St. Leonard's in Eastcheap, 18 June 1576, Robert Foote, ...'