Brick Family History
Brick Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruic ‘descendant
of Broc’, i.e. ‘Badger’ (sometimes so translated) or Ó
Bric ‘descendant of Breac’, a personal name meaning
‘freckled’.English: possibly, as Reaney suggests, a
nickname from Old English br¯ce ‘fragile’, ‘worthless’.German: topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy
wood, brick, breck ‘swamp’, ‘wood’.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): from Yiddish brik ‘bridge’, probably a
topographic name.Altered spelling of German Brück
(see Bruck).In some cases it may be an altered
spelling of Slovenian Bric, regional name for someone from the
hilly region of western Slovenia called Brda, a plural form of
brdo ‘rising ground’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brick
Name Distribution of Brick Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brick families
 50 - 98  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brick families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brick census records
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Brick Family Origin
Brick Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brick Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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