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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Ten Broek) and North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swamp (to den broek ‘at the creek’), from Dutch, Low German broek.
  • This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century. See also <xref>Wessels</xref>.

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