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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named Bradwell, of which there are examples in Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Somerset, Suffolk, and elsewhere, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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