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Breck Family Crest
Breck Family Crest
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Where did the English Breck family come from? What is the English Breck family crest and coat of arms? When did the Breck family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Breck family history?

Breck is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived near a newly cultivated piece of land. The surname Breck is derived from the Old English word bręc.

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Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Breck family name include Breach, Brech, Britch and others.

First found in Shropshire where they held a family seat at Breche as Lords of the manor, some say before the Norman Conquest in 1066.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Breck research. Another 262 words(19 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Breck History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Breck surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Breck Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century


  • Edward Breck, who arrived in Dorchester, Mass in 1636
  • Robert Breck, who arrived in Boston, Mass in 1649

Breck Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Adam Breck, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1754

Breck Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • John M Breck, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1851

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  10. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
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The Breck Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Breck Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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