The bracewell Surname
bracewell Name Meaning and History
Northern English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire
(formerly in West Yorkshire), named in Anglo-Scandinavian as ‘Breith’s
stream’, from the Old Norse byname Breiðr meaning ‘broad’
(which possibly replaced earlier Old English Brægd, meaning
‘trick’) + Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Martha Ann Bracewell & James B. Cross |
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| John Bracewell, born 1778, Colne, Lancashire, England | Julie Cheche | 1 |
| Uriah Bracewell in Dale County, AL in 1800's |
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| Thomas & Elizabeth Bracewell | April | 1 |
| Need help finding gggpaw's family - James Bracewell, b abt 1805, GA |
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| William B. Bracewell of Dale Co., Alabama |
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| Covington County AL Bracewell's | William Creel | 4 |
| Dent and Bracewell families | Robert Schneider | 19 |
| Thomas Bracewell, from NC to AL | Paul Bracewell | 1 |
| Richard & Charity Bracewell |
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