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18005 Louifa," born Aug. t, 1799; 'William, June 12, 
i8di and Augufta, Aug. 2, 1802.—This family had pro¬ 
perty in Warwickfliire and Northamptonlhire at a v.ery 
early period, and originally fpelt their, name Broke. 
They are defcended from an ancient family,:of the fame 
name in Chelhire. William Broke, anceftor of the Oak r 
ley branch, was living anno 1159. it appears, by the 
vifitations in the College of,Arms, that fir Nicholas 
Broke,was lord of Chefterwaver in Warwickfliire, that 
lie married the daughter of fir John Bufti.e, knf.’ and that 
he was buried there the 10th of September 1271 ; and 
• that William Broke polfelfed the manors Of Afhvell 
Fawcott, and Wappenham, : n Northamplonflifre, which 
he exchanged op the 24th of April, 11 Edw. IV. with 
Thomas Lovett (whole daughter he married), for the 
manors of Great Oakley and RuflUpn, and other con- 
fiderable eflates in the pariflies of Bulwyke, Henevyke, 
Stanyarne, Newton, Wykerly, and Little Okeley. His 
defcendants have redded at Great Oakley fince that 
period. Arthur Broke, grandfather of the prefent ba¬ 
ronet, was the twehty-fectind in lineal defcent from 
William Broke above-mentioned. He married Mary, 
the only furviving child of that eminent and learned di¬ 
vine the Rev. Zaccheus Ilham, D.D. prebendary of St.- 
Paul’s and re&or of Solyhull in Warwickfliire, and by 
her had ilfue two daughters, Mary and Dorothy ; the 
latter married Thomas-Cecil Maunfell, efq. and died , 
without ilfue. Mary, the eldefl; daughter, married Ri¬ 
chard Supple, efq. of Aliadoe in the county of Cork, 
and had ilfue the prefent baronet, who, on the deceafe 
of-his father in the year 1797, purfuant to the directions 
contained in the will of his great uncle, Wheeler Broke, 
obtained the royal licence to a (fume the name and take 
the arms of Brooke, and alfo at the fame time to re-aflume 
the name of De Capell, inftead of tlrat of Supple, tile for¬ 
mer being the original paternal name of his family ; his 
anceftor, Philip De Capell, having gone over to Ireland 
in the reign of Henry II. and having been prefent under 
Robert Fitzftephen at. the conqueft of the kingdom of 
Cork, who' granted to him and his heirs, (vide the grant 
in Birmingham Tower, Dublin, and in the College of 
Arms, London,) the eftate of Ahadoe, and other con- 
fiderable property in the county of Cork, to be held by 
knight’s fervice, and the payment of a pair of fpurs an¬ 
nually at Eafter. This eftate, fubjeCt to the fame quit- 
rent, has continued in the family ever, fince. Keating, 
in his Hiftory of Ireland, p. 552, mentions this family 
as of great antiquity, and as one of the few families then 
remaining who were defcended lineally from the Eng- 
lilh who firft arrived in the ifland. Edmund Grimftone, 
fierjeant at arms anno 1615, publilhed a tranflation of a 
French work, in which this family are mentioned amongft 
the gentlemen of note in Ireland who, were defcended 
from the Englifli. Camden alfo mentions them by the 
name of Sapell. An ancient, manufcript in the Britiflt 
Mufeum, marked 4814, Plut. D. contains a lift of the 
Englifli families who came into Ireland in the reigns of 
Henry II. Richard I. and king John; and amongft thefe 
names occurs; “ James Chappell, alias . Capell, alias 
Supple, baron.” The Supples have intermarried with 
feveral families of confequence in the county of Cork. 
William Supple Fitz-Edmund, elq. married, 1628, Ca-‘ 
tharine, daughter of fir Richard Smythe, of Ballynatra, 
and grand-daughter of RobertBoyle',the father of the firft 
earl of Cork, and from whom are defcended the earls of 
Cork* and Shannon, and the duke of Devonlhire. By 
various marriages with the Fitzgeralds, they became 
connected with many families of dillihftion. They in¬ 
termarried alfo with the Uniaches, Tyntcs, and Hulls ; 
the prefent baronet polfefles Roxborough, the family 
feat of his grandfather, fir Richard Hull. The Brookes 
have, through all their generations, allied themfelves to 
ancient and refpedlable families. Betides thofe already 
mentioned, it appears,by the vifitations of Northamp- 
tonfliire and the continuation of the pedigree in the He- 
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raids’ office, that Edward Broke married the heir of fir 
Edmund Gournay, knt. William Broke married Anne,. 
daughter of- Billenge, and niece of fir Thomas Bil- 
linge, lord chief juftice, .6 Edw. IV. John Broke 
married Ifabel, daughter of Thomas Wake, of Blif* 
worth, called the Great Wake, who was member for Nor- 
thamptonfliire in feveral parliaments. Thomas Brooke 
married Jane, daughter of Giles Pulton, of Delborough. 
Thomas Brooke married Jane, heir of Thomas More, of 
Bourton, Bucks, and great niece of fir Thomas More, 
lord chancellor to Henry VI11. Arthur Brooke married 
Catharine, daughter, of fir Edward Watfon, of Rock¬ 
ingham Cattle, and grand-daughter of fir Edward Mon¬ 
tagu, of Boughton, lord chief juftice of England, an¬ 
ceftor of the late duke of Montagu, and of the dukes of 
Manchefter and earls of Sandwich. Sir Thomas Brooke 
married Judith, daughter of John Shugburgh, of Nafe- 
by, defcended from Guy earl of Warwick, and Wil¬ 
liam the Conqueror. Edward Brooke, brother of fir 
Thomas, was mufter-mafter general of 1 reland, where he 
fettled ; he married the daughter, of fir William Pelham, 
knt. Arthur Brooke, fonof fir Thomas, married Doro¬ 
thy, eldeft daughter of fir Thomas Neville, of Holt, de¬ 
fcended from Neville, lord high admiral to William the 
Conqueror. Thomas Brooke* fon of Arthur, married 
Margaret, daughter of fir John Walter, of Oxfordlhire, 
lord chief baron of the Exchequer. Arthur, his fon, 
and great grandfather of the prefent baronet, married 
Dorothy, heir of William WJieelowes, efq. of Gayton. 
—Motto of the Brooke Family, Virefcit vulnere virtus, Vir¬ 
tue flourilhes from a wound. Of the De Capell Fami¬ 
ly, Spes mea Dens, My hope is in God.—Family Seats, 
Great Oakley, Northamptonlhire'; Ahadoe, and Rox- 
borough, in the county of Cork. 
STEWART, of Athenree, county of Tyrone; cre^ 
ated June 14, 1803.—The Right Hon. John Stewart, 
late attorney-general in Ireland ; was created a baronet as 
above ; married Mary-, daughter of Mervin Archdale, 
of C’aftle Archdale, in Fermanagh, efq. and by her, who 
died 1795, had iflue, Mary, born 1791 ; Hugh, born 
March 1793 ; and Mervin, born 511,1799.—About the. 
year 1621, Andrew Stewart, commonly called captain 
Andrew Stewart, came from Scotland to Ireland with 
Jofias lord Ochiltree, (lord Caftleftewart in Ireland,) 
and redded in Tyrone; he married Sarah, the eldeft: 
daughter of lord Caftleftewart; and had ilfue three fons, 
Robert, Hugh, and James. Robert died without ilfue; 
Hugh married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Morris, 
of Mountjoy Caftle, in the county of Tyrone, efq. 
(James was in the navy, and married a daughter of fir 
Cloudefly Shovel.) Hugh had ilfue, Andrew, Hugh, 
James, and John. Andrew, Hugh, and James, died 
without ilTue. John married Mary Kennedy, and had 
two fons, Hugh and James, and feveral daughters. Hugh 
married Sarah, youngeft lifter of Henry Hamilton, of 
Caftle Conyngham, in the county of Donegal, elq. and 
by her had ilfue, John (now fir John), Andrew, and 
Henry. In the year 1861, John was appointed by his 
majefty to the office of attorney-general of Ireland, and 
then called to the privy council; in 1802 he was elected 
one of the reprefentatives for the county of Tyrone; 
and in the year 1803 Created a baronet by his, majefty 
George III. 
Arms. .Quarterly, firft and fourth, Or, a lion rampant 
azure, within a double trelfure counterflory vert; fe- 
cond and third, Or, a fefs cheeky.argent and azure; in 
the chief of the fecortd and third quarter, a portcullis 
fable; the whole within a bordure-gobony argenf and. 
vert.—Creft, an unicorn’s head cooped or, corned and 
m ined argent.—Motto, Stemmata quidfaciunt. —The above 
arms are borne by fir J. Stewart as being defcended 
from Jofias lord Ochiltree, lord Caftleftewart in Ireland;, 
the portcullis was by his majefty granted to fir John, 
and-his defcendants exclufively, on his being appointed 
attorney- 
