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Where did the Scottish Bruch family come from? What is the Scottish Bruch family crest and coat of arms? When did the Bruch family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Bruch family history?
The noble Viking settlers who came to the rocky shores of Scotland in the Middle Ages brought with them the ancestors of the Bruch family. They lived in the places named Overbrough and Netherbrough in Harray, in the Orkney Islands. It is believed that the origins of the Bruch name are Norse, but it is not known if the place or personal name came first.
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Scottish names from the Middle Ages vary enormously in their spellings. This is a result of the fact that there were no universal standards like dictionaries for scribes to judge by. The recorded spelling variations of the name Bruch include Brough, Burgh, Brugh, Broughe, Burghe, Brughe, Bruche and many more.First found in the Orkneys, where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Bruch. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Settlers found farms all along the eastern part of what would become the United States and Canada. They provided a base and a backbone that would strengthen two great nations in the making. In the 20th century, the ancestors of those brave Scots have rediscovered their heritage through highland games and Scottish historical societies. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the Scottish name Bruch or a variant listed above, including:
Bruch Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- John Bruch who was recorded as having arrived in Virginia in 1663
- John Bruch, who arrived in Virginia in 1663
Bruch Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Hans Henrig Bruch who, accompanied by his wife and four children, arrived in New York state in 1709
- Hans Henrig Bruch, who arrived in New York in 1709
- Johan Mathias Bruch, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1736
- David Bruch, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1737
- Thos Bruch, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1740
Bruch Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Dorothea Bruch, aged 36, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1805
- Dorothea Bruch who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1805
- Heinrich Bruch who arrived in New Orleans, La. in 1823
- Martin Bruch, who landed in Texas in 1840-1850
- Friedrich Bruch, who landed in Brazil in 1846
Bruch Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Peter Bruch arrived in Arkansas in 1904
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- Walter Bruch (1908-1990), German engineer, famous for inventing the PAL color television system
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