The ancestry of the name Brebbing dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from when the family lived in Brabant in Flanders, which was formerly a province of France and is now part of the Netherlands.
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Brebbing Spelling Variations
Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Brebbing have been found, including Brabyn, Brabyne, Brabine, Brabines, Brabant, Brabent and many more.
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Early Notables of the Brebbing family
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Migration of the Brebbing family
Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers because of the political and religious discontent in England. Often faced with persecution and starvation in England, the possibilities of the New World attracted many English people. Although the ocean trips took many lives, those who did get to North America were instrumental in building the necessary groundwork for what would become for new powerful nations. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America bore the name Brebbing, or a variant listed above: W. Brabine who settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1820; Alexander Braband arrived in Bermuda in 1635; and then moved to Boston under the name Brabant.
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