When Elizabeth Brooks was born in 1760, in Sutton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Brooks, was 28 and her mother, Ann Willamat, was 37. She married Samuel Flinders on 7 December 1778, in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. She died in 1847, in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, 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.
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Americanized form of German Brucks .
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