honor the outgoing governor, though, since the American Civil War, it has been in West Virginia. Ancestry Brooke (England) AND Taliaferro (Venice, Italy) Father Richard Brooke, b. 1732 Mother Ann Hay Taliaferro, b. September 7, 1731 Robert Brooke (1760—d. February 27, 1800, Fredericksburg, Va.) Married 1786 Mary Ritchie Children: Richard Brooke, b. August 14, 1787 Descendants: Many living as of 2009. Related to Washington family; descended from Patrick Henry's family (John Fontaine m. Martha Henry); Patrick Henry's family descended from Gen. Alexander Spottswood's family of Virginia, of "Knights of the Golden Horshoe" history. References Sources Maury Family Tree by Sue West for family—privately printed. Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars by Maj. Gen. Dabney Herndon Maury Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IIII—Governors of the State—1776–1861 Obituaries in Fredericksburg Virginia Herald, February 28, 1800, and Richmond Virginia Argus, March 7, 1800. Biography in John T. Kneebone et al., eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998– ), 2:267–269. . External links Archival Records A Guide to the Governor Robert Brooke Executive Papers, 1794–1796 at The Library of Virginia 1760 births 1800 deaths Year of birth uncertain Governors of Virginia Virginia Attorneys General Virginia lawyers Politicians from Fredericksburg, Virginia Virginia Democratic-Republicans Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States Taliaferro family of Virginia