When Forrest Bernard Easterbrook was born on 11 August 1857, in Jackson, Jackson Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Whipple Easterbrook, was 45 and his mother, Cynthia Barrett, was 40. He married Rosaline Isabel Holton on 17 July 1883, in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. He died on 9 August 1939, in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in West Northfield Cemetery, Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (Devon): variant of Estabrook .
Possibly also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Oosterbroek: habitational name from any of several farms and hamlets, for instance in Eelde Drenthe, Oldemarkt Overijssel, Laren Gelderland and Oldebroek Gelderland.
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