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 Bruch Coat of Arms / Bruch Family CrestThe associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in J.B Rietstaps Armorial General. Illustrated by V & H.V Rolland's. This monumental work took 23 years to complete and 85,000 coats of Arms are included in this work. The surname of BRUCH is the German variant of the English name Brook, and was a locational name 'of Brook' the name of many places throughout England. The name is also spelt BROKE, BROOKES, BRUCK, BROOKER, BRUCKER and BRUCHMAN. Local names usually denoted where a man held his land, and indicated where he actually lived. Some modern bearers of this name, who preserve the spelling Broke are descended from Sir Richard Broke (died 1529) of Broke Hall in County Suffolk, who was Chief Baron of the Exchequer to Henry VIII in 1526. English bearers of the name Brockman (which is a variant) can trace their ancestry to a certain John Brockman who was granted lands in Kent by Richard III. Other records of the name mention Eustace delbroc who was recorded in the year 1130 in County Northumberland and Alice de la Broke, was documented in 1273 in county Lancashire. Thomas del Brooke of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Richard atte Brook was vicar of Horseford, County Norfolk in 1419. John Thornell married Martha Brooke in London in the year of 1616. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. A noteworthy person of this name was Max BRUCH (1838-1920) the German composer, born in Cologne. He became musical director at Coblenz in 1865, and conducted the Liverpool Philharmonic Society in 1880 until 1883. He is best known for his violin concerto the 'Kil Nidrei'. Another notable member of the name was Rubert Chawner BROOKE (1887-1915) the English poet, born in Rugby. He was educated at King's College Cambridge, he travelled to Germany and visited the USA and Tahiti. He died a commissioned officer on Skyros on his way to the Dardanelles and was buried there. His poems appeared in 1911, 1914 and 'Other Poems' in 1915, after his death. |
