Brailey Family History
- Brailey Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Brayley Barton in Devon, which is named with the Bray river (a back formation from High Bray, which is from Celtic brez ‘hill’) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,602 Historical Documents with Brailey on Ancestry
- 15,862 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,234 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,285 Military Records
- 1,274 Immigration Records
- 19,947 Member Trees
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Number of Brailey families
 60 - 118  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brailey census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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