Descendants of Edmond Brannock of England

Generation #1

Edmond Brannock of Devonshire, England

In The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1871), p. 248, the Gaelic word branog is another name for a raven. Origin of the name Brannock appears to be from the Brannock Islands which are the most western part of the Aran Islands of Galway Bay in Ireland. The Irish name is Oilean-da-bhranog or literally, Island of the Two Ravens. Located at the extreme western edge of Ireland, the Brannock Islands may not be the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

This particular Brannock Family is believed to have originated in Scotland. And this may be so; as many Celts from the British Isles were Irish from before the Romans. [Early Irish Migration] However, circumstantial evidence from allied families indicate that the family was from either Devonshire or Cornwall, England.

The progenitor of the Brannock Family, Edmund Brannock was born c. 1640, probably in Devonshire, England. In about 1665, Edmund married Jane Roche b. c. 1645 in England. An unproven story tells that Edmond, his new wife Jane, and Jane's family migrated en masse to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1666. However, Jane's father and brother migrated before 2/1663. Reasonable conjecture leads to the belief that Jane and Edmond followed her family shortly thereafter. And, Edmond patented land in 1666 in what would become Dorchester Co MD.

The Brannock Family lived their lives in what they thought was Maryland; as the family births, marriages, and wills along with land transactions and court proceedings were recorded in Dorchester Co MD. However after the 1775 Delaware/Maryland Boundary Survey, many Brannock Family land holdings were found to actually be in Kent Co DE. [1775 Boundary Map]

Edmond Brannock died 1/1703, probably in Dorchester MD. And, his will was probated 1/5/1703 in Sussex Co DE.

• Born c. 1640 Devonshire, England

• Married c. 1665 in England to Jane Roche b. c. 1645 in England

• Migrated 1666 from Bristol, England to the Eastern Shores of Maryland

• 1666 Eastern Shore Maryland Land Grant

• 1668 Dorchester established as an original county

• 12/2/1669 Dorchester Co MD Land Transaction

• 11/14/1673 Dorchester Co MD Land Grant

• Died 1/1703 Dorchester Co MD

• Will written 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE

    Children

    1. Edmund Brannock

• Born c. 1667 Dorchester Co MD

• 1668 Dorchester established as an original county

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• Died after 1/1703 Dorchester Co MD

    2. John Brannock

• Born 1669 Dorchester Co MD

• Married c. 1793 in Dorchester Co MD to an unknown spouse

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• Married after 1705 in Dorchester Co MD to Margaret Beckwith (widow of Anthony LeCompte, Jr.) b. c. 1672 in Maryland

• 3/15/1726 Dorchester Co MD Record

• Died before 4/1742 Dorchester Co MD

    3. Jane Brannock

• Born c. 1671 Dorchester Co MD

• Married before 9/1701 in Dorchester Co MD to Mr. Jones b. c. 1665

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• Date and place of death unknown

    4. Mary Brannock

• Born c. 1673 Dorchester Co MD

• Married c. 1693 in Dorchester Co MD to Thomas Skinner, Jr. b. c. 1670

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• 1/29/1705 Dorchester Co MD Probate

• Date and place of death unknown

    5. Thomas Brannock b. 1675 Dorchester Co MD

    6. David Brannock

• Born c. 1677 Dorchester Co MD

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• Migrated before 1734 to South Carolina

• Died after 1734 in South Carolina

    7. Elizabeth Brannock

• Born c. 1680 Dorchester Co MD

• 9/1/1701 Sussex Co DE Probate

• Married after 9/1701 in Dorchester Co MD to Hugh Eccelston b. c. 1670 Yarmouth, England

• 1/29/1705 Dorchester Co MD Probate

• Died before 1711 Dorchester Co MD

Generation #2