When Martin L Brooks was born in 1931, his father, Alvis D Brooks, was 26 and his mother, Ruth Elizabeth Lynch, was 24. He lived in Montgomery Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 21 February 2012, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 81.
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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