When Elizabeth Brooks was born on 15 July 1841, in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Brooks, was 29 and her mother, Caroline Steptoe, was 17. She married William Harber on 23 January 1866, in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Witley, Surrey, England in 1881 and Witley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1926, in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England, at the age of 85, and was buried in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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