Broadway Family History
Broadway Name Meaning
habitational name from places called Broadway, in
Worcestershire and Somerset, from Old English brad ‘broad’,
‘extensive’ + weg ‘way’, ‘road’, or a topographic name with the
same meaning. See also Bradway.possibly a habitational
name from Broadwey in Dorset, ‘the broad manor on the Wey river’,
named with Old English brad ‘broad’ prefixed to Wey,
an ancient pre-English river name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Broadway
Name Distribution of Broadway Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Broadway families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Broadway families
|
71 - 139 24 - 70 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Broadway families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Broadway census records
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Broadway Family Origin
Broadway Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Broadway
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Broadway Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Broadway census records
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Broadway Civil War Service Records
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