When Hannah Brooks was born on 26 September 1729, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Job Brooks, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Flagg, was 33. She married Nathan Stratton on 7 October 1748, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 7 May 1750, at the age of 20.
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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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