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The
HOLBROOK Family of Late C18th Iron Acton, Gloucestershire
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881 (above) and modern data (below).
The Bristol
area is one major focus area for the name.
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Name
variations: HOLBROCH, HOLBROOKE
The name
originates from OE 'hol' meaning hollow and 'broc' meaning brook.
It was not an uncommon place name in local use, and can be found
in historical text and maps in many English counties.
Particularly for this family, Holbrook was a hamlet in the
Chipping Sodbury district of Gloucestershire, and as a
consequence many of that name can be found in nearby Iron Acton
and Thornbury. Based on the infrequency of similar common names
in the earliest C16th registers, it is thought that they had not
been in the area for very long in a historical sense. The origins
before that time are unknown.
Seeking ancestry of William
HOLBROOKE & Hannah of Iron
Acton (my 6xGGPs). Are they originally from Iron Acton or another
area nearby? Baptism of William or his marriage pre 1750 not
found there. Their known children include:
Arthur
HOLBROOKE
c. 13.5.1750
Betty
HOLBROOKE
c. 6.10.1751
Sarah
HOLBROOKE
c. 30.5. 1753
Hannah
HOLBROOKE
no date
Charles
HOLBROOKE
c. 25.12.1754
Sarah
HOLBROOKE
& Hester
HOLBROOKE
c. 20.8.1761
Daughter Hester
HOLBROOKE (my 5xGGM) had a
daughter Harriet HOLBROOK
(n. c1783 from MI; c. 23.5.1790 at Iron Acton, St James the Less;
father unknown). Harriet HOLBROOKE
married John
MONKS,
Mason/Stonecutter on 8.3.1807 at St James Bristol (my 4xGGPs).
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Other possible connections:
1825 Will of Daniel
HOLBROOK
of Iron Acton, Glos., who names Harriet
& Maria HOLBROOK
as d/o James
HOLBROOK,
late deceased of Iron Acton, and his wife Tamar.
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