Brint is a name whose history is connected to the ancient
Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Brint family once lived in any one of a number of similarly named settlements. Bramham and Braham were found in the West Riding of
Yorkshire and Brantham was found in
Suffolk. Braham Hall was in
Essex, as was Bream's Farm.
Early Origins of the Brint family
The surname Brint was first found in
Yorkshire, where they held a
family seat from ancient times.
Early History of the Brint family
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Brint Spelling Variations
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 Brint family name include Braham, Braim, Bramham, Brame, Braem and others.
Early Notables of the Brint family (pre 1700)
Notables of this surname at this time include: Johannes de Brame, a prominent 14th century landholder in Yorkshire; Sir Arnold Braemes (1602-1681), an English merchant and politician who sat...
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Migration of the Brint family to the New World and Oceana
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 Brint surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Brint Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Morgan Brint, aged 19, who landed in St Christopher in 1635 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Contemporary Notables of the name Brint (post 1700)
- Fred Brint, American Republican politician, Candidate in primary for Mayor of Sylvania, Ohio, 1931 [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, December 11) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html - Simon Tracey Brint (1950-2011), British musician and comedian, best known for his role as part of the comedy duo Raw Sex with Rowland Rivron