Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Brook was christened on 22 June 1712, in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Brook, was 42 and his mother, Ann, was 40. He married Sarah on 26 July 1734, in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
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- Richard Brook, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Richard Brooke in entry for Sarah Brooke, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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World Events (3)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a brook, stream, water-meadows or low, marshy ground, from Middle English brook, Old English brōc ‘brook, stream’; or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, such as Brook (Kent, Rutland) or Brooke (Norfolk).
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German brook (cognate with German Bruch ‘swamp’ and Old English brōc; see 1 above).
Americanized form of Dutch Broek: topographic name from broek, a cognate of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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