Brass Family History
Brass Name Meaning
English (Northumberland): variant of Brace.North German (also Bräss): nickname from Middle Low
German bras ‘noise’, ‘pomp’, a related form of
brasch (see Braasch).German: topographic name
from Brass ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, a common name element in the Lower
Rhine and Ruhr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brass
Name Distribution of Brass Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brass families
 114 - 225  39 - 113 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brass families
|
58 - 114 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brass census records
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Brass Family Origin
Brass Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brass Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brass census records
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Military Service by Brass
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