When Hugh Reginald Brooks was born on 23 July 1891, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Jonathan Brooks, was 27 and his mother, Margaret McMillan, was 24. He married Gertrude Elizabeth Dickinson on 7 June 1921, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 7 December 1960, in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 69, and was buried in Esquimalt, Capital, British Columbia, Canada.
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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