When Mary Jane Brooks was born in 1855, in Hennock, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Brooks, was 40 and her mother, Ann Bearne, was 36. She married Richard Brimecombe in 1877, in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Chudleigh Knighton, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Chudleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died in June 1908, in Kingsteignton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 53, and was buried in Kingsteignton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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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