Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Brooks was born in 1782, in Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Christopher Brook, was 40 and her mother, Grace Collins, was 36. She married James Marchbanks on 29 March 1800, in Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
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Sources (7)
- Legacy NFS Source: Ann Brooks - Church record: birth-name: Ann Brooks
- Ann in entry for James March Banks, "England, Navy Allotment Records, 1795-1812"
- Ann Marchbanks in entry for Mary Marchbanks, "England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887"
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World Events (8)
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: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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