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brotherton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from either of two places called Brotherton, in North Yorkshire and Suffolk; both are named with Old English broðor ‘brother’ or the Old Scandinavian personal name Bróðir + Old English tun ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The brotherton name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the brotherton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of brotherton Families in the US in 1920
Number of brotherton families
 27-51
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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