Brough Family History
Brough Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Brough, of which there are several in Yorkshire and Derbyshire as well
as elsewhere. The place name is from Old English burh
‘fortress’ and in most cases these are the sites of Roman
fortifications. The pronunciation is usually ‘bruff’.Possibly
an altered spelling of German Brauch.
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Name Distribution of Brough Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brough families
 422 - 841  141 - 421 |
 1 - 140  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brough families
|
126 - 249 43 - 125 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brough Family Origin
Brough Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brough Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Brough Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Brough
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