Brenton Family History
- Brenton Name Meaning
- English (Devon): habitational name primarily from Brenton near Exminster, possibly named in Old English as Br¯ningtun ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Br¯ni’ (a personal name from Old English bryne ‘fire’, ‘flame’), or from any of the places mentioned at Brinton.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 186,792 Historical Documents with Brenton on Ancestry
- 37,441 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,152 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,103 Military Records
- 3,684 Immigration Records
- 113,412 Member Trees
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Number of Brenton families
 149 - 296  50 - 148 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brenton families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brenton census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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