Brayton Family History
Brayton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Cumbria and North
Yorkshire named Brayton, from Old Scandinavian breithr ‘broad’
or the personal name Breithi + Old English tun
‘farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brayton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brayton families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brayton families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brayton census records
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Brayton Family Origin
Brayton Emigration Information (US)
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Brayton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Brayton
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