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brisbane Name Meaning and History

Scottish: nickname from Old French bris(er) ‘to break’ + Old English ban ‘bone’. The sense of this hybrid name is not clear; it may have been used for someone crippled by a broken bone or for a violent man who broke other people’s bones.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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brisbane Family Facts

Distribution of brisbane Families in the US in 1920
Number of brisbane families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 40 - Messages: 101
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George Henry Shea alanrowlands176 0
Ancestors HBrisban 1
Nice to meet some other Brisbanes! David Brisbane 7
Searching for John Brisbane larissa76 1
Emily Brisbane jamel1 9
William Brisbane-Janet Scott LVelett 0
Hi I am a Brisbane :) Brian E Brisbane 2
William Brisbane - baseball team photo Not_A_Relative 0
Matthew Brisbane ~ Banished in 1674 BasketLady420 0
looking for anybody brisbine 5
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