When Clara Belknap Holbrook was born on 2 August 1856, in Palmer, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Dr William Holbrook, was 33 and her mother, Clarissa Belknap, was 31. She married George C. Ellis on 14 July 1875, in Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. She died on 7 January 1938, in Monson, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
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