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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places, in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) and Sheffield, South Yorkshire, named with Old English brōm ‘broom’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. See also Bramwell.

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