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Locality B Surnames Family History Resources

Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Badgely		Locality	a town in Scotland
Barnet		Locality	A town in Hertfordshire, England
Barnum		Locality	Bearnham, the town in the wood or hill
Barringer		Locality	Beringer, a town in France
Barwick		Locality	aber, the mouth, and wick, a town or harbor
Basford		Locality	The shallow ford or way
Beach		Locality	The shore of the sea, lake, or river
Beckley		Locality	beck, a brook, and ley, field or meadow
Bedale		Locality	a town in England
Beers		Locality	bere, grain, barley; a fruitful place
Bellinger		Locality	Bellinger, a town in South Jutland
Bent		Locality	A plain, a moor, covered with the bent-grass
Bethune		Locality	capital of a county in Artois, Netherlands
Biggore		Locality	An ancient province of France
Birch		Locality	birch-tree
Birney		Locality	Burn-nigh, a village near the Burn or river
Birnie		Locality	Burn-nigh, a village near the Burn or river
Blackburn		Locality	The black brook or stream
Blackwood		Locality	the lands of Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, in Scotland, called Blackwood
Blasedale		Locality	A place in Lancashire, England
Bloss		Locality	Blois, the chief town of a territory in Orleans, France
Bolingbroke		Locality	The brook or bridge near the round hill.
Bonar		Locality	a chain of hills
Bordoel		Locality	A town in lower Saxony
Boswell		Locality	Bosch, a wood, and ville, a village
Bottesford		Locality	A town in England
Boughton		Locality	the bowing or bending hill
Boynton		Locality	Buvington, in the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Bradburn		Locality	The wide or broad brook
Bradford		Locality	broad ford
Brande		Locality	town in Denmark
Brandon		Locality	burnt town
Breck		Locality	broken
Breckenridge		Locality	broken, out of repair; and ridge
Briare		Locality	a town in the province of Orleans, France
Bridge		Locality	raised over rivers
Bridges		Locality	raised over rivers
Brienne		Locality	meeting-place of the Brians or nobles
Brighton		Locality	bright town
Brodie		Locality	a little ridge; a brow
Brodt		Locality	a town in Sclavonia
Bromfeld		Locality	The field abounding in broom
Bromley		Locality	brome or broom, and ley, a field or common
Brooks		Locality	small river
Brougham		Locality	Burgham. The village on a hill; a borough town
Broughton		Locality	A town on the hill
Brunner		Locality	a town of that name in Switzerland
Brux		Locality	A town in England
Buchan		Locality	A district of Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Buchanan		Locality	A parish in the shire of Sterling, Scotland
Buckbee		Locality	boc, a beech-tree, and by, a village
Buckley		Locality	Bullock-ley, the bullock-field or pasture
Buddington		Locality	The flourishing town
Bulkeley		Locality	Bullock-ley, the bullock-field or pasture
Bunnell		Locality	Bonhill, a parish in the county of Dumbarton, Scotland
Burd		Locality	A river in France
Burgos		Locality	A city of Spain, in Old Castile
Burgoyne		Locality	Bourgogne, now Burgundy, an old province of France
Burnside		Locality	Beside the brook or burn
Burton		Locality	the Bur-town, from the abundance of burs
Bushwell		Locality	Bushwild. From bush and well, wild, wold, a wood, a lawn, or plain
Butman		Locality	the man who lives at the butt or boundary

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