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Position:Home>Genealogy> Does anyone out there have the surname Brooks, Burgess or Mann?Question:I know of someone with the surname Brooks that's all. I had a look around and found you this information from www.ancestry.com Brooks English: from the possessive case of Brook (i.e. ‘of the brook’). Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Americanized spelling of German Brucks. Burgess English and Scottish: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger. Mann English, German, Dutch (De Mann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch man. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be ornamental. English and German: from a Germanic personal name, found in Old English as Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing this element, such as Hermann. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Man (cognate with 1). Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Jat) and Sikh name of unknown meaning. Hope this helps. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know of someone with the surname Brooks that's all. I had a look around and found you this information from www.ancestry.com Brooks English: from the possessive case of Brook (i.e. ‘of the brook’). Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Americanized spelling of German Brucks. Burgess English and Scottish: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger. Mann English, German, Dutch (De Mann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch man. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be ornamental. English and German: from a Germanic personal name, found in Old English as Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing this element, such as Hermann. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Man (cognate with 1). Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Jat) and Sikh name of unknown meaning. Hope this helps. i know someone with all my family on my mums side have the surname brooks I know a family from South Africa, with the surname Mann. my names anthony mann...cool eh? www.anto.mann@btinternet.com let me know why yes a Friend of mine is Burgess, and my sons mate is brooks. Mr Mann. haha! The Electoral Roll for the UK lists "over 200" people for each of those surnames, so the chances are that there are several contributors to YA among them My computer stops at 200 - it doesn't know how to count any higher! GenForum and Ancestry both have bulletin boards for all three surnames. The Mormons, Roots Web World Connect and GenCircles have thousands of entries for each surname. RW has a mailing list for each surname. Write if you'd like links, or read http://www.tedpack.org/genhead.html Especially the pages on -> How to post a Good Query -> Systematic Research -> Links |