Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Brook was born on 25 August 1765, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, his father, Edward Brooke, was 42 and his mother, Mary MORTON, was 40. He married Ann Thorpe on 4 February 1789, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters.
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- Thomas in entry for Hannah Brook, "England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts, 1547-1957"
- Thos. Brook in entry for Richd. Brook, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Brook in entry for Richard Brook, "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977"
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World Events (8)
1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
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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