Person:John Holbrook (9)

John Holbrook

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m. 1586

Facts and Events

Name^[2]	John Holbrook
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]	20 Jun 1598	Glastonbury, Somerset, England

References

↑ Holbrook, in Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Joseph Neal: 1769-c.1835 of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Portland, Maine : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945, 1945)
128.

iv. John, possibly the son of William Holbrooke, bapt. at St. John's, Glastonbury, June 20, 1598; not known whether he were living or dead in 1625.
↑ William Holbrook sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

This immigrant had a brother John Holbrook, whose fate was unknown in 1625 [Joseph Neal Anc 128]. The absurd claim has been made that this John Holbrook was already in New England in 1626, and was the father of every stray Holbrook male who later appeared in New England [M&JCH 17:89]. There was no John Holbrook in Dorchester in 1635, and this entire proposed family did not exist.