Brief Life History of Hiram
When Hiram Brooks was born on 2 June 1806, in Higganum, Haddam, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Asa Brooks, was 32 and his mother, Lydia Dickinson, was 27. He married Roxanna Redfield Blatchley on 7 November 1832, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. He lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870. He died on 20 December 1894, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Higganum Cemetery, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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- Hiram Brook, "United States Census, 1860"
- Hiram Brooks on Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
- Hiram Brooks, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
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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