The entries for people & families with the surname Brooksbank are gathered together in this SideTrack.
This Page does not include people with other forms of the surname.
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The individuals listed are not necessarily related to each other.
Children:
Grace Butler was buried at Halifax [19th December 1682]
Recorded around 1900, when
he was a butcher / meat purveyor at 61 Northgate, Halifax
In 1626, he was required to pay composition
He was
a butcher [1841, 1851, 1861] /
a farmer of 13 acres [1871] /
a farmer of 10 acres employing 1 man [1881].
On 18th July 1839, he married (1) Sarah Eastwood at Halifax Parish Church.
Sarah died in 1873.
In October 1880, he married (2) Esther Eastwood in Halifax.
The family lived at
David died 17th July 1889.
Probate records show that he left a personal estate valued at £787 8/-.
Members of the family were buried at Rastrick Church
He owned property at Robbers' Cave, Shelf
He was
educated at Haugh Shaw School & Halifax Tech /
a member of St Paul's Church & Choir /
employed by W. Stead, butcher.
During World War II,
he enlisted [June 1942], and
served as a Signalman
with the 52nd Division
Signals
Royal Corps of Signals.
He was killed in Germany [25th April 1945] (aged 22).
He was buried at the Becklingen War Cemetery [4 L 1].
He is remembered on the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Saint Paul's Church, King Cross
He married Unknown.
Children:
He was
a warehouseman [1851] /
butler at Grainsby Hall, Lincolnshire [1861] /
a labourer in Halifax [1871]
He married (1) Unknown.
In 1839, he married (2) Lydia Clayton.
Children:
In November 1673, he, Joshua Smith and Robert Ramsden, were arrested and taken to York for
refusing to take the churchwardens' oath,
In York, they each paid £6 and were released
Son of Mr Brooksbank.
He established Brooksbank's Gift.
His daughter married Thomas Oates
He was a weaver [1889].
On 11th February 1889, he married Grace Mitchell [1855-1917]
in Halifax.
Children:
The family lived at Luddenden [1911]
He joined the police in Surrey.
He moved to Halifax in 1872.
He became a sergeant in the Halifax Police [1878] and
retired in 1894.
He married Alice Maude Frost from Stepney, Middlesex
Children:
Son of George Brooksbank of Halifax.
He was a member of Heywood's church at Northowram.
In 1685, Nonconformist meetings were held at his home.
In July 1689, he and Rev John Lister applied for a licence
to hold preaching services at Brooksbank's house in Elland.
He married Bathshua.
Children:
He was an early member of the Brooksbank family of Elland.
Some sources record that he died in 1702, others that he died on 23rd
September 1715.
He entered Brasenose College Oxford [1632], where he took a degree in
Arts.
He later took holy orders, and served as a curate.
He moved to London, where he taught at a school in Fleet Street, and
preached there.
He became a haberdasher in Hackney, London.
In 1699, he bought property on the Harper Royd estate from Robert Sturdie.
In 1660, he published a Breviate of Lilly's Latin Grammar.
He was buried at the Dissenters' burial ground at Bunhill Fields,
London.
In his will, he gave farming property and an endowment for the
establishment of the Brooksbank Charities for the people of Elland
Born in Halifax.
He was a blanket weaver [1911].
During World War I,
he enlisted in Sowerby [1914] and
served as a Private
with the 2nd/4th Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
He was killed in action [25th November 1917].
He is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial [6 & 7],
on Luddenden & Midgley War Memorial,
and on the Memorial at Saint Mary the Virgin, Luddenden
In 1845, he married Caroline, daughter of Benjamin Rushton,
in Halifax.
Children:
He died in 1852 or 1854.
Sarah was the daughter of Joseph Eastwood
Esther was the daughter of Joseph Eastwood, and
sister of his first wife
although they had faithfully served the office
Grace was born in Rochdale
Alice was the daughter of Richard Barraclough
Members of the family included
Edward Brooksbank,
Michael Brooksbank,
Abraham Brooksbank,
James Brooksbank,
and
Mrs Anne Brooksbank
Entries for people with this and similar surnames are shown in a separate Foldout
Thomas Brokesbank is recorded in 1379.
Not surprisingly, the name is derived from the Old English meaning
the bank of a brook.
There are over 20 entries on
the Calderdale Companion
for people with the surname Brooksbank,
as discussed in this SideTrack.
This count does not include other forms of the surname.
Unattached BMDs for Brooksbank:
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