The surname Brooks is of locative origin meaning somebody who lived by a brook or a small stream. The first written reference to the name is in 1208 in Surrey England when William de la Broke is recorded. In Scotland the first reference is in Aberdeen in 1483. The Surname Brooks is the 77th most common name in the United States with approximately 240,000 bearers of the name residing there. Notable bearers of the surname Brooks include Gabriel Brooks the noted eighteenth century English calligrapher. Brooks was apprenticed to Dennis Smith, a writing-master in Castle Street, Southwark. He kept a day school in Burr Street, Wapping, until his death in 1741. Brooks was born in 1704 and died in 1741.

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