Broadway Family History
Broadway Name Meaning
habitational name from places called Broadway, in
Worcestershire and Somerset, from Old English brad ‘broad’,
‘extensive’ + weg ‘way’, ‘road’, or a topographic name with the
same meaning. See also Bradway.possibly a habitational
name from Broadwey in Dorset, ‘the broad manor on the Wey river’,
named with Old English brad ‘broad’ prefixed to Wey,
an ancient pre-English river name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Broadway
Name Distribution of Broadway Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Broadway families
 71 - 139  24 - 70 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Broadway families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Broadway census records
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Broadway Family Origin
Broadway Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Broadway Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Broadway census records
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