Brander Family History
Brander Name Meaning
Dutch: occupational name for an inspector of weights and
measures.German and Swiss German: habitational name for
someone from any of the many places called Brand or Brandt (see
Brandt).Jewish (Ashkenazic): perhaps an occupational
name for fireman or distiller, from German Brand, Yiddish
brand ‘conflagration’.Dutch: nickname for a fire
raiser.Danish: habitational name for someone from a place
called Brande.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brander
Name Distribution of Brander Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brander families
 27 - 51  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brander families
|
45 - 88 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brander Family Origin
Brander Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brander Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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