Brough Family History
Brough Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Brough, of which there are several in Yorkshire and Derbyshire as well
as elsewhere. The place name is from Old English burh
‘fortress’ and in most cases these are the sites of Roman
fortifications. The pronunciation is usually ‘bruff’.Possibly
an altered spelling of German Brauch.
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Name Distribution of Brough Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brough families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brough families
|
422 - 841 141 - 421 |
1 - 140 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brough families
|
126 - 249 43 - 125 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brough Family Origin
Brough Immigration Information
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Brough Family Occupations
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