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Although Brooke died unmarried, he did acknowledge a son to his family in 1858. Neither the identity of the son's mother nor his birth date is clear. This son was brought up as Reuben George Walker in the Brighton household of Frances Walker (1841 and 1851 census, apparently born ca. 1836). By 1858 he was aware of his Brooke connection and by 1871 he is on the census at the parish of [[Plumtree, Nottinghamshire]] as "George Brooke", age "40", birthplace "Sarawak, Borneo". He married Martha Elizabeth Mowbray on 10 July 1862, and had seven children, three of whom survived infancy; the oldest was called James.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} George died travelling to Australia, in the wreck of the SS ''British Admiral''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kingisland.net.au/~maritime/britishadmiral.htm |title=British Admiral wreck |publisher=Kingisland.net.au |access-date=6 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/vicpamphlets/0/0/1/pdf/vp0010.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228143205/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/vicpamphlets/0/0/1/pdf/vp0010.pdf |archive-date=28 February 2008 }}</ref> on 23 May 1874. A memorial to this effect – giving a birthdate of 1834 – is in the churchyard at Plumtree.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keyworth-history.org.uk/about/reports/0509.htm|title=September 2005 Meeting Report|publisher=Keyworth Local History Society|access-date=6 February 2013|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185717/http://www.keyworth-history.org.uk/about/reports/0509.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Rajah James Brooke.jpg|thumb|Rajah James Brooke]]
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