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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Brierton in County Durham (formerly in West Yorkshire) or Brearton in North Yorkshire, which are both named with Old English brēr ‘briar’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, or Brereton in Cheshire, which has the same origin (see Brereton).

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