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bruyere Name Meaning and History

French (Bruyère): from Old French bruyere ‘heather’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where heather grew, or a habitational name from one of the places in France (for example in Calvados) named with this word.

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Distribution of bruyere Families in the US in 1920
Number of bruyere families
 4-5
 2-3		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 28
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Bruyeres from Champagne France matkins_1 2
Michel Bruyere/Elizabeth Sabourin DianaConger 8
Bruyere hooch5 1
Pierre Bruyere/Alexandrine Gravelle DianaConger 4
Nathaniel Brewer (Bruyere) b. after 1820 Paris, France(?) Kathryn Jung 2
Bruyere/Gravel 1849 Quebec DianaConger 2
August Bruyer and Josephine Simon LauraHall54 0
Bruyere/Estiembre dit Sansfacon. 1817 Quebec DianaConger 0
Bruyere Family From Verdun, France..1756.. Randy Bruyere 0
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