Easterbrook

Easterbrook One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Easterbrook

Variants: Eastabrook, Eastbrook, Easterbrooke, Estabrook, Estabrooks, Esterbrook, Esterbrooke

Category: 2 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way, but currently in some countries only.

Website: easterbrook.org.uk

DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/Easterbrook

Legacy Guild website: easterbrook.one-name.net

Contact: Mr Mark Easterbrook

About the study

The Easterbrook name and common variants.

Variant names

The variant spellings Eastabrook, Eastbrook and Esterbrook were common prior to the mid-19th century, often with the same family. Variants with a terminating e are also common, but often these are added by transcriptions when a stylised k was read as ke. In the UK the Easterbrook spelling is the most common and the variants fairly rare. In the New World the variants are more common.

Name origin

The Easterbrook surname seems to have originated in Devon in the area north of Dartmoor. Records show the name spreading from Dartmoor so that in the 19th century there were significant numbers in Devon and Cornwall, South Wales, Somerset, London, Yorkshire and Cumberland as well as emmigration to the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa.

The generally accepted meaning is 'The family living East of the Brook'.

Historical occurrences of the name

DNA

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Easterbrook/

Links

The results of the study, except for those still living, can be found at the Easterbrook Genealogy website at http://easterbrook.org.uk/

Contact Details

Mr Mark Easterbrook

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Easterbrook in the Guild Indexes

(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)

Global Marriages (public) 118
Global Marriages (members)* 121
Inscriptions Index 1
Modern Newspaper Index 10
Probate Index* 8
Datastores (public) 7
Datastores (members)* 2

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