Braxton Family History
- Braxton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name of uncertain origin, perhaps from Branxton in Northumberland, which is named with the Celtic personal name Branoc + Old English tun ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- Historical Documents with Braxton on Ancestry
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Number of Braxton families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Braxton census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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