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breed Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various minor places, for example Brede in Sussex, named with Old English br?du ‘breadth’, ‘broad place’ (a derivative of brad ‘broad’).

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The breed name in History

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Distribution of breed Families in the US in 1920
Number of breed families
 55-108
 19-54		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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