Hello,
The street is named after a resident who lived where the street is now
when it was built or shortly before it was built in the 1860s or
1870s.
According to the 1852 Sidney and Smith map of Boston and viscinity, a
person or family by the name of Babcock lived on Harvard Street where
Babcock Road is now. By 1874, Babcock Street had been laid out,
according to the G.M. Hopkins map of Boston. Both are on the David
Rumsey Collection site (www.davidrumsey.com). (Another map shows the
street was not there in 1860.)
Unfortunately, the map does not give a first name or initials for
Babcock. You probably can find out the first name of the resident(s)
by contacting the Brookline Public Library's local history department
at 361 Washington Street, (617) 730-2369. If you have an Ancestry.com
account or are willing to pay $30, you can search the 18th century
probate index for Norfolk County, which has four Babcock matches in
Brookline.
I hope this answer meets your needs. If not, please request
clarification.
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