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brewster Name Meaning and History

Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Old English breowan ‘to brew’. Brewer is the usual term in southern England, while Brewster is mainly midland, northern, and Scottish.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brewster Families in the US in 1920
Number of brewster families
 191-380
 64-190		 1-63
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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