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bratton Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and northern Irish: variant spelling of Bratten.
  2. English: habitational name from any of the places called Bratten (in Shropshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) or from Bratton Clovelly or Bratton Fleming in Devon. The Shropshire and Somerset places are named with Old English broc ‘hook’ + tun ‘settlement’. The Wiltshire and Devon names are from Old English br?c ‘newly cultivated ground’ + tun.

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Distribution of bratton Families in the US in 1920
Number of bratton families
 57-111
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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