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The Easterbrook Name

Spelling variations of the name include: Eastbrook, Eastabrook, Easterbook, Easterbrok, and these can also be found with a final e as in Easterbrooke. (Note that many transcriptions add a final e when the original had a final k with a stylistic final stroke).

The Easterbrook name is still most common in Devon, but migration to other parts of the British Isles and the rest of the world significantly increased during the 19th century. As well as the adjacent counties of Cornwall and Somerset, many moved to London taking advantage of the new railway network, which had reached Plymouth in 1859.

The 1891 Distribution at Ancestry.co.uk shows the name is still very much a Devon name.

Both Devon and London had important sea ports, and this led to many Easterbrooks emigrating to the New World such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. Of course not all of the emigrants left England by their own chosing! The Easterbrook name can also be found in Nigeria, South Africa and Austria.

Jim Eastabrook has provided A History of Early Devonshire Easterbrooks which he received as part of his research into the Easterbrook and Eastabrook names.

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All the EASTERBROOK families mentioned on this site are listed by Family and by alphabetical first name.

These families are covered in more detail under the area in which they lived.

There are also a number of places called Easterbrook

References

The House of Names gives the origins of the name as:

First found in Somerset where they were anciently seated. The first on record appears to be John le Eastbrook, who is mentioned in a volume called "Kirby's Quest for Somerset," as living in that county during the reign of Edward III, the Confessor (1042-66).

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Surname Web states:

A Person who lives East of the Brook. Bardsley couldn't find the place. It is mentioned in the Cartulary or Cannonsleigh Abbey. First reference 1173. Ruins of Abbey situated at Burlescombe about 2 miles west of the Devon/Somerset Border.

East, Eastes, Este from Old English, meaning a 'man from the east'. Eastbrook, Eastabrook, Easterbrook therefore denoted someone who dwelt 'east of the brook'; Easterby someone who 'lived east of the village'; Eastwood someone who 'lived east of a wood' or 'eastward', and Escott someone from the 'eastern cottage' or 'east of the cottage'.

Easterbrook, Esterbrooke, Esterbrook, Estabrook, Estabrooks. - Local, 'of Eastbrook.' I have not found the spot. The intrusive a in Estabrooks or Estabrook is euphonic, as in Ottaway, Greenaway, &c. The next stage was Easterbrook. Cf. John atte Esterford (Kirby's Quest, p. 260).
John le (?de) Eastbrook, co. Soms., I Edw. III: Kirby's Quest, p. 224.
1658. Married - Richard Dalton and Frances Easterbrooke: St Dionis Backchurch, p.34.
1772. - William Phillips and jane Eastabrook: St. Geo. Han. Sq. i. 226.
London, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0: Boston (U.S.), 6, 0, 1, 33, 4.

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