page_title: Thomas Brooke Sr.
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Brooke Sr. / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry Darnall (1645-1711) of "Woodyard". Unknown artist, after Justus Engelhardt Kuhn's portrait of Henry Darnall. Was bequested to the Maryland Historical Society from Miss Ellen C. Daingerfield.
context_page_description: Major Thomas Brooke Sr., Esq. was a colonial lawyer, planter and politician of Calvert County, Maryland, where he served in the appointed positions of Burgess, High Sheriff and Chief Justice.
context_section_description: In 1658 Brooke married as his second wife Eleanor Hatton (1642–1725), who was 16 years old.  She was born in London, England on April 3, 1642, the daughter of Richard Hatton Sr., (1605-1648), and Margaret (ca. 1610), who married later secondly, Captain Richard Banks Sr., (ca. 1612-1667), of Maryland. Eleanor emigrated across the Atlantic to Maryland in 1649 with her widowed mother and family.  Eleanor's uncle Thomas Hatton (d. 1654), had been Secretary of the Province.
  After the death of Thomas Brooke (1632–1676), the widowed Eleanor, then still only age 34, married Col. Henry Darnall (1645–1711) of "Woodyard" and "Darnall's Delight".  Her son from her first marriage, Thomas Brooke Jr., (1660–1730), became the stepson of Colonel Darnall and the adopted half-brother of Henry Darnall II, Esq. (d. 1737).  Eleanor Hatton Brooke Darnall died on February 21, 1725, at "Portland Manor" in Anne Arundel County.
caption: Henry Darnall (1645-1711) of "Woodyard"
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