Brief Life History of Ida May
When Ida May Brooks was born in 1859, in Brush Creek, Fayette, Iowa, United States, her father, John H Brooks, was 44 and her mother, Catherine Freeman, was 44. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. She died before 1860, in Brush Creek, Fayette, Iowa, United States.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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