When Eliza Ann Brooks was born in 1819, in Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Benjamin Brooks, was 27 and her mother, Nancy Olive Harris, was 21. She married Henry Woolley on 15 March 1836, in Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 18 January 1863, in Springfield, Elgin, Canada West, British North America, at the age of 44, and was buried in Old Springfield Cemetery, Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
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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 .
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