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briscoe Name Meaning and History

Northern English: habitational name from any of various places so named. Briscoe in Cumberland is named with Old Norse Bretaskógr ‘wood of the Britons’ (see Brett). Brisco in Cumberland and Briscoe in North Yorkshire are named with Old Norse birki ‘birch’ + skógr ‘wood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the briscoe family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of briscoe Families in the US in 1920
Number of briscoe families
 93-184
 32-92		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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