The Brockerts first came out west in the 1820's, escaping persecution at the hands of religious zealot muggles and looking for adventure. They settled in what today is Colorado, where they were among its founding magical families and remain there until this day for the most part as one of the state's most prominent families.

As a whole, the Brockerts have a long history of feuding with Muggle religious groups. It began back in Europe with the christianization of Northern Europe and the British Isles. The family refused to conform to what they believed were silly and nonsensical ideas and clung stubbornly to old ways such as using the old Runes. Eventually they got tired of people trying to kill them and make them conform and fled to America. Unfortunately, the religious groups eventually followed and it just started up again. At this time, the Brockerts used the Runes as sort of a secret code thing, to hide stuff from their muggle oppressors. One openly defiant member of the family, Lilith Brockert, used them to curse Puritans.

The current patriarch is Clifford Brockert I. He and his wife, Antonia, had two children, Frank and Amelia. Frank married a woman named Penelope and they had three children, Rosemary, Clifford II and James. Clifford died in an accident at age 15, which Frank blames on the Mormons, somehow.

The Brockerts used to arrange marriages for their children like many pureblood families. However, after Rosemary's disasterous arranged marriage to Liam Ferguson, Frank felt guilty and renounced this practice. It was too late for Rosemary, who'd had three children with Liam, named Lucy, Oliver and Marshall. Lucy is married to Marcus Dobson and has a daughter named Nora. Oliver is married to Jessica Parker.

James Brockert, or Jim, as he preferred to be called, married Isabella Crandall, from a pureblood family based in Northern California and Oregon. They moved to Portland, Oregon and had six children, Kaylie, Adam, Chelsea, Nina, Hope and Evan. After Clifford I and Frank kick the bucket, Jim is obligated to move back to Colorado, but this will most likely not be happening for a long time, as Clifford is still perfectly physically and mentally fit and Frank, while there are some doubts about his sanity, is in robust health.

Amelia Brockert married Owen Collins and moved to Pennsylvania. They had a son named Gary. (See Collins family for more information.)

Clifford I also has a brother named Hugo and a sister named Theadra.

Hugo's son Ezra has three children, Margo, Adrian and Reuben.

Adrian first married Natasha and produced a daughter, Melora who is a freshman Sultana at Sapienti University of Magic. After Natasha's death, Adrian married Claudia and had two daughters, Pippa and Tawny. Reuben has a son, Angus. Margo chose not to marry.

Hugo's youngest, Otis married Enid and had a few children, the oldest two are Timothy ("Tim") and Pearl and the youngest is Jana. Tim married Lisa and they have a daughter named Arabella.Pearl married a pureblood named Jeffrey O'Malley and had two children, Ryan and Carrie.

Theadra married into the pureblood Melcher family of Dubuque, Iowa. Two of her great-grandchildren are Quentin and Kirstenna Melcher.

Clifford I, Hugo and Theadra's mother, Gwendolyn is stil alive but very old and senile.

The line of sucession in the Brockert family mimics that of the British Royal family. There is also a branch of the family in either Delaware or Massachusettes that is only minorly related to the Colorado branch and not usually the branch that it thought of when the Brockerts are mentioned.

The Brockerts are a wealthy and primarily respectable pureblood family that just happens to be given to eccentricity, bordering in some cases to flat out insanity.