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John Brooks was possibly the son of William and Johanna, baptized 1810 in Devon, England. He married Christine Ramsay in 1837.

In 1841, there was one boy and one girl under 16 in their household in Lot 67. Three members of the family were born on the Island, and one in England. Children in the PEI Baptismal Index were Margaret (1840), William (1844), and Robert (1850). Children, or grandchildren, on their gravestone were Flora, John, and David. John Brooks Jr, in Lot 67, was born between 1837 and 1852. David, between 1855 and 1857.

Christie died in 1855, although no newspaper notice has been found.

In 1861, he was the head of a household of 10, all Bible Christians. There was a married couple. Somewhere between 4 and 6 of the children would have been born before Christie's death.

John Brooks, a widower, married Flora Ann McInnis, in 1870. This could be the Flora who was living with him in 1881.

In the 1881 census, in Lot 67, John Broks, age 71, born in England, was a married man, wife Flora, age 53, born Scotland. David, age 24, was also in the household, and an Eliza Silliphant, age 26.

Examiner -- 18860617 -- Page 03 Thursday June 17, 1886

DIED. At Fredericton, Lot 67, on the 9th inst., Mr. John Brooks, native of Devonshire, Engiand, aged 76. Deeeased was highly respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and will be greatly missed in the settlement in which he lived.

Named in John's will: sons Robert and William, John Thomas, David
daughters Johanna, Margaret Jane, Mary, Sophia, Martha