Elizabeth Harper

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Harper was born on 16 December 1805, in Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Harper, was 26 and her mother, Rebina Rebecca Mc Burney, was 36. She married Thomas Philip Brooks on 10 October 1825, in Harwich, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ipswich St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 1 December 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Philip Brooks
1801–1851
Elizabeth Harper
1805–1893
Marriage: 10 October 1825
Thomas Brooks
1827–1851
Major Brooks
1835–1914
Major Candler Brooks
1829–1883
Edmund Joseph Brooks
1831–1902
John Brooks
1832–
George Finley Brooks
1833–1911
Emma Elizabeth Brooks
1839–1917
Philip Brigham Brooks
1841–1900

Sources (47)

  • Elizabeth Brooks in household of Thomas Brooks, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Elizabeth Camp, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Elizabeth H Brooks, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

Name Meaning

English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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The Story of Elizabeth Harper Brooks Camp

Elizabeth Harper Brooks Camp was born 16 December 1805, she died the 1 December 1893, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Emigration records shows that the B …

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