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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Old English brād ‘broad’ + strǣt ‘(Roman) road’, or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places so named. This spelling of the surname is no longer found in the British Isles, although an older form, Bradstreet, is still found.

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