Thomas Brooks was a boatswain on the Sirius which arrived in Sydney with his wife Deborah in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. Brooks returned to England with his wife on the Waaksamheid in March 1791.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 50
'Brooks, Thomas (?–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/brooks-thomas-30409/text37711, accessed 7 November 2024.