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Some Special Interests => Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms => Topic started by: kittycatgirl9 on Wednesday 03 June 15 09:10 BST (UK)
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my name is such a rarity were I live that I have always been curious as to our family's seat as it were.
I know there are a large concentration of brunsdons in wales and south west but I would like to confirm wither that is our origin.
now the story goes that we are a family that came over to England in the Norman conquest, heralding from somewhere in France.
now I have gone as far as i can in England regarding the census but i have hit a brick wall.
would be grateful for any information regarding this.
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This says the name Brunsdon might be from a 'lost' village in Berkshire
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Brunsdon
and someone else said Brunston/Brownstone prior to 1066 (norman Conquest)
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/brunsdon/19/
You might like to see if anyone here can take the oldest members of your Brunsdon families back any further without census records
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my name is such a rarity were I live that I have always been curious as to our family's seat as it were.
Ancestry have a Name Distribution function.
For 1891 that shows a concentration in Gloucestershire, with slightly less concentration in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Sussex.
There are 441 Brunsdons on that census.