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Cyril H. Brooks was an English open brethren pioneer assembly planter who served in the Philippines. He was born Dec. 11, 1898 in Lingfield, Surrey, [[England]], a son of Harry Brooks (1861-1905) & Ellen Sheldon Brooks (1863-1926).  On Sept. 20, 1922 he married Anna Rose Carson in Buffalo, [[New York]] where she was raised, although born on May 2, 1898 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, [[Northern Ireland]].  Cyril died in March of 1986 in Manila, and Anna followed in May of 1986.


=Siblings=
=Ancestry=
* Harry Brooks (b. 1861 Beddingham, Sussex, Eng. - d. 1905 Godstone, Surrey, Eng.)
** Thomas Brooks (b. 1825 Rotherfield, Sussex, Eng. - d. 1904 Godstone, Eng.). He was christened in the CoE in 1833 in Rotherfield.
*** Hezekiah Brooks Between +1822-1831+, the family lived in Pinehurst.  One of their daughters, Ansley, married Samuel Vine (is he related to W.E. Vine?).  
*** Ann Bicknall Brooks
** Harriet Reed Brooks-Beard (b. 1831 Mayfield, Sussex, Eng. - d. 1910 Lewes, Sussex, Eng.)
* Ellen Sheldon Brooks (b. 1863 Littlemore, Oxfordshire, Eng. - d. 1926 Victoria, [[British Columbia|B.C.]])

=Marriage=
His wife was Anna Rose Carson Brooks who was born May 2, 1898 in Belfast, [[Northern Ireland]] to Samuel Carson (1866-1950), a carpenter, & Rose Logan Carson (1869-1967).  The Carson family emigrated to the U.S. in 1905, settling at Buffalo, N.Y., and were living at 43 Hill in 1926. 

==Anna's siblings==
* Agnes Carson (b. 1897 Belfast, N.I.)
* Samuel Carson, Jr. (b. 1900 Belfast, N.I. - d. 1985 Springville, N.Y.)
* Mae Carson (1906-1926 Buffalo, N.Y.).  Employed in 1925 as a stenographer, while living with her parents. 
* Jean Carson Lord (1908-1968 Buffalo, N.Y.).  Husband (1931 Buffalo, N.Y.): Robert F. Lord (b. 1907 Tacoma, Piere,  [[Washington|WA]] - d. 1976 Buffalo, N.Y.), son of Dr. [[George Thomas Lord]] (b. 1877 N.Y. - d. 1947 Tonawanda, Erie, N.Y.) & Nellie Sautter Lord (b. 1877 Buffalo, N.Y.)   

==Anna's ancestry==
* Samuel Carson (b. 1866 Ballymena, Co. Antrim, N.I. - d. 1950 Buffalo, N.Y.)
** William Carson
** Nancy Blakely Carson
* Rose Logan Carson (b. 1869 Belfast, N.I. - d. 1967 Buffalo, N.Y.)
** Robert Logan (b. 1833 N.I. - d. 1887 Akron, [[Ohio|OH]])
** Sarah Jane Harbison Logan (b. 1839 N.I. - d. 1920 Akron, OH)

=Children=


=Also See=
Cyril wrote an autobiography, [https://www.amazon.com/Triumphant-Triumph-Philippines-Autobiography-Brooks/dp/B000CSXTH6 Grace Triumphant], published by [[Walterick Publishers]] in 1985 which chronicles his life's work.