Brief Life History of Mavis Virginia
When Mavis Virginia Brooks was born on 1 January 1934, in Chester, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Willie Clark Brooks, was 45 and her mother, Aileen Bertha Cady, was 34. She married Merle Edward Knight Jr. on 8 December 1951, in Chester, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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- Mavis Knights in entry for Mr Alden Leonard Brooks, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Mavis Virginia Brooks, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- Mavis in entry for Leslie Vaughan Roberts and Merlene Havis Knight, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008"
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1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1935 · The Social Security Act
This Act was created a basic right to a pension in old age, and insurance against unemployment.
1965 · The Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The Act secured the right to vote for minorities in the South. It also prohibits local governments from making any voting law that results in discrimination against any kind of minorities.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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