Briscoe Family History
Briscoe Name Meaning
Northern English: habitational name from any of various places so
named. Briscoe in Cumberland is named with Old Norse
Bretaskógr ‘wood of the Britons’ (see Brett). Brisco
in Cumberland and Briscoe in North Yorkshire are named with Old Norse
birki ‘birch’ + skógr ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Briscoe Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Briscoe families
 285 - 568  96 - 284 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Briscoe families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Briscoe census records
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Briscoe Family Origin
Briscoe Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Briscoe Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Briscoe Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Briscoe census records
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Military Service by Briscoe
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