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bradner Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly Somerset): habitational name from Bradnor in Herefordshire, so named with Old English brad ‘broad’ (dative -an) + ora ‘hill slope’.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of the South German surname Brettner, an occupational name for someone who cut shingles or boards, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bret ‘board’, or in some cases perhaps a habitational name for someone from Bretten in Baden.

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Distribution of bradner Families in the US in 1920
Number of bradner families
 17-32
 6-16
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thomas Scott Bradner died 11/27/1898 at Red Bank, New Jersey Bob_MacAvoy 0
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My line from Ephraim & Alice (Little) Wadleigh to my grandaughters Jerome Walton Burke 0
Louvisa Bradner - b1768 Orange Co NY holly_gleason 2
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