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Rebecca Rooks
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Rebecca Rooks married William H. Stilwell, a son of Henry Stilwell and Cornelia Brokaw, and their son George was born in 1873. William died in 1878 and the boy was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Jane and George Liddell of Perth Amboy, who adopted him. From the volunteer-written biography on Cornelia Brokaw's Find a Grave memorial (src-951), not from a record this archive has read. Recorded so it can be tested.
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Rebecca Rooks married William H. Stilwell, a son of Henry Stilwell and Cornelia Brokaw, and their son George was born in 1873. William died in 1878 and the boy was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Jane and George Liddell of Perth Amboy, who adopted him. From the volunteer-written biography on Cornelia Brokaw's Find a Grave memorial (src-951), not from a record this archive has read. Recorded so it can be tested.
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Biography on the Find a Grave memorial for Cornelia Stryker Brokaw Stilwell (memorial 295247056)
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