Hambrook Family History

Perhaps from Hambrook in Chidham (Sussex) for which the 14th-century bearers cited below constitute the medieval evidence. The place-name seems to derive from Old English hām ‘village homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure water meadow’ + brōc ‘brook stream’ but it may have been named after the family which itself may have been a branch of the Gloucs one that is evidenced at (2).

From Hambrook in Winterbourne (Gloucs). The place-name is recorded as Hanbroc in 1086 and may derive from Old English hān ‘stone’ + brōc ‘brook stream’. There is little sign of the family name in Gloucs after 152.