Brook Family History
Brook Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or
stream, from Middle Englisk brook, Old English broc
‘brook’, ‘stream’.North German and Dutch: topographic name for
someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German
brook, Dutch broek (cognate with German Bruch and
Old English broc; see 1).Americanized spelling of
German and Jewish Bruck or German Bruch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brook
Name Distribution of Brook Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brook families
 3,846 - 7,690  1,283 - 3,845 |
 1 - 1,282  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brook families
|
18 - 33 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brook census records
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Brook Family Origin
Brook Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brook Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Brook Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brook census records
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Military Service by Brook
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