Bratton Family History
- Bratton Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: variant spelling of Bratten. English: habitational name from any of the places called Bratten (in Shropshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) or from Bratton Clovelly or Bratton Fleming in Devon. The Shropshire and Somerset places are named with Old English broc ‘hook’ + tun ‘settlement’. The Wiltshire and Devon names are from Old English br?c ‘newly cultivated ground’ + tun.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 305,144 Historical Documents with Bratton on Ancestry
- 87,557 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
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- 12,510 Military Records
- 2,260 Immigration Records
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Number of Bratton families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bratton families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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