Brest Family History
Brest Name Meaning
German: nickname from Middle High German brast
‘boastfulness’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brest
Name Distribution of Brest Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brest families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brest census records
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Brest Family Origin
Brest Emigration Information (US)
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Brest Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Brest
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