Brief Life History of Benjamin G.
When Benjamin G. Brooks was born in November 1891, in Iowa, United States, his father, Charles Thomas Brooks, was 38 and his mother, Maud Naomi Griffith, was 23. He died in September 1893, in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States, at the age of 1.
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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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