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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of an unidentified English surname; said to be an altered form of Brinton.
  • Edward Brinton, alias Gornto, is listed as one of the original settlers (a mason) in Jamestown VA in 1607.

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