Hello, and how are you? I love God, and I live in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. I'll also mention I have a hobby of trying to figure out our Holbrook surname genealogy more. We already know our first ancestor to the USA, from Sommerset, England, is Thomas Holbrook and his wife, Jane, who came on the "Marygold" ship, back in the 1600's, if I remember right. I am presently interested in knowing more genealogy facts about the war hero, of England, Norman Douglas Holbrook, VC, and his dad - Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook - born in Bath, England. If you'd like to share any facts you know or have access to about them, please let me know - I'll appreciate it!
I come from a Christian family of 10 kids in all. By now, I'm 65 years old. I'm a grandma, and I and my husband spend time with our grandchildren about every day. I teach them daily about God and the Bible. I enjoy children, and I see it as being very important to raise children up well in the ways of the Lord!
I'll mention that Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook looked a lot like my cousin, Glen Holbrook looked, when he was younger, and I see by having watched a movie that Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook was in, that he looked a lot like Glen, too, whenever he was acting jolly as Arthur did in the movie I found online. And Arthur's famous son (war hero who obtained victory in the war through use of a submarine), Norman Douglas Holbrook VC, looked a lot like my brother, Mark Holbrook looked when he was a young man. I understand from reading somewhere online, that they (Sir Arthur Holbrook and his son, Norman Douglas Holbrook, VC) also lived in Somerset, England for a time. So must have been closely related to our ancestor - Thomas - who - with his family - immigrated to Massachusetts.