Surname Philbrook

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7/22/2011 at 9:41 AM

Philbrook From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philbrook is an English-derived surname commonly found in New England. The name is commonly seen as Philbrook or Philbrick, yet they both originate from the same familial line.

Thomas Philbrick (Philbrook) immigrated to the United States as part of the "Great Migration" of Puritans in about 1633 and was among one of the founding households of Watertown, Massachusetts. Eventually he, along with his three sons John, James and Thomas Philbrick moved to Hampton, New Hampshire where they settled their families and descendants for most of the next 100 years.

Some famous Philbrook descendants include Robert Frost and Winston Churchill.

Jacob Chapman wrote "A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families," which was published in 1886

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7/22/2011 at 3:47 PM

Last name: Philbrook

This interesting name is a medieval variant of the locational surname Felbrigg or Felbrick, which is of Scandinavian origin, and derives from the place called Felbrigg near Cromer in Norfolk. The placename is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Felebruge", and in the Norfolk Curia Rolls of 1207 as "Felebrigge"; the name means "(place at) the plank bridge", derived from the Old Scandinavian "fiol", plank, and "bryggia", bridge. The development of the surname from this source includes Robert de Fellbrigg, abbot of North Creak in Norfolk in 1412, Harrye Felbricke (1577, London), Elizabeth Fillbrick (1596, Suffolk) and John Philbrick (1616, ibid.). Nicholas Filbrook and Barbara Fuller were married in Elveden, Suffolk, in 1668, and the marriage of one Joseph Philbrook and Sarah Murrels was recorded at Copford in Essex on February 19th 1765. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Matilda de Felbregge, which was dated 1273, in the "Norfolk Hundred Rolls", during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Erica Howton C

7/22/2011 at 4:12 PM

Did you fill this in on the "surname" module?

http://www.geni.com/surnames/philbrick

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7/23/2011 at 9:07 PM

No. just learning how to use this site.

Surname Philbrook

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