Brisbane Family History
Brisbane Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Old French bris(er) ‘to break’ + Old
English ban ‘bone’. The sense of this hybrid name is not
clear; it may have been used for someone crippled by a broken bone or
for a violent man who broke other people’s bones.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brisbane
Name Distribution of Brisbane Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brisbane families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brisbane families
|
57 - 111 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brisbane census records
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Brisbane Family Origin
Brisbane Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brisbane Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brisbane census records
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Military Service by Brisbane
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