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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Broadway, in Worcestershire and Somerset, from Old English brād ‘broad’, ‘extensive’ + weg ‘way’, ‘road’, or a topographic name with the same meaning. See also Bradway.
  • English : possibly a habitational name from Broadwey in Dorset, ‘the broad manor on the Wey river’, named with Old English brād ‘broad’ prefixed to Wey, an ancient pre-English river name.

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