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bristol Name Meaning and History

English: variant of Bristow, respelled to conform to the spelling of the modern place name.

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Distribution of bristol Families in England and Wales in 1891
Number of bristol families
 35-67
 12-34
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1891 England and Wales Census Records

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