Bromley Family History
Bromley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places called
Bromley, in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent (now in Greater London),
Greater London, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and elsewhere. Most
are named with Old English brom ‘broom’ + leah
‘woodland clearing’, but Bromley (near Bow) in Greater London is from
Old English bræmbel ‘bramble’ + leah.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bromley
Name Distribution of Bromley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bromley families
 633 - 1,263  212 - 632 |
 1 - 211  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bromley families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bromley census records
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Bromley Family Origin
Bromley Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bromley Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Bromley families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bromley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bromley census records
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Military Service by Bromley
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