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Introduction

Remembrance Day 2026 Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 05:45 for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I. It took effect at 1100 - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - and was later formallised in the Treaty of Versailles. It is known as Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States. It is also commemorated in many of the Allies of World War I nations. This year we recognise the huge contribution of the Polish people to the success of the allies in defeating Nazi Germany. In Poland the 11th November is National Independence Day as the armistice that ended the Great War restored Poland as a sovereign and unified state after a gap of 123 years. It is a public holiday and flag flying day in Poland. With the invasion of Poland on the 1st September 1939 by Nazi Germany the independence of Poland was again threatened. Poland was quickly overrun, and sandwiched between an aggressive Nazi Germany and expansionist Soviet Union. While many poles joined the Polish Resistence to fight from within Poland, many others fled to other allied countries to continue their fight to regain their homeland. Many of the Polish airforce worked alongside the RAF and played a crucial and highly decorated role, operating as the largest non-British Allied air force in the UK. Before the invasion, the Polish Intelligence Service had been successful in breaking into Nazi communication and had reconstructed an Enigma coding machine, which they took together with the foundation knowledge to break the codes to the United Kingdom and the Codes and Cypher School. This was the beginning of the Bletchley Park code-breaking and is recognised as shortening the war by many years. The contribution of the Polish code-breaking is honoured in a memorial at Bletchley Park. Meanwhile at home the Polish Resistance was the largest underground network in occupied Europe operating as a "state within a state" and loyal the Polish Government in exile. An estimated 34,000 to 100,000 members of the resistance were killed during the occupation. To the left is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. To the right is the memorial commemorating the prewar work of Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, mathematicians of the Polish intelligence service, in breaking the Enigma code.

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Easterbrook Name examines the Easterbrook name, its variants, and lists all the families for which I have information. These families are then examined in further detail organised geographically: Devon, the rest of the West Country, the South East including London, and the rest of the British Isles, representing the distribution of the Easterbrook families as they migrated away from origins in Devon. Many families emigrated and there are records of Easterbrook families in Europe, Africa, USA, Canada, the rest of The Americas, Asia, and Australasia.

Some families related to an Easterbrook by marriage are covered in the Other Surnames section.

The Ancestor section is a collection of Ancestor Trees for families that are being researched.

Resources is the background genealogy information to my research. Additional resources are Monumental Inscriptions (including war dead), Life Event Registration (often referred to as Vital Records), Document Transcriptions and Census Transcriptions.

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Current Research

• Newly available or discovered sources: The 1931 Canada Census, the 1921 England Census, Canada birth/marriage/death records.
• The Estabrook/Eastabrook families of New Brunswick and Maine.
• Origins of Easterbrook in Devon before the beginning of the 19th Century.
• Other surnames related by marriage or adoption: Capewell and Hubbard of Leicester, Pickett in Wiltshire and London.

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Caution

Some terminology and behaviours in common use in the past are now considered offensive, insensitive, or politically incorrect. When describing historical events or transcribing documents I have not attempted to convert to 21st century norms. Where a place has changed name over time, I have used the name in use at the time of the event.. There have been great injustices in the past both by and to our ancestors — when we record those events we are reminded not only how far we have come, but also how far we still need to go to before we can truely call them historical. There is no intent to offend, just to be historically factual and correct.

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