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Help[Surname] Re: Bruce
in reply to a message by blackapple
The best I can do is quote Basil Cottle in the Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, probably leaving you no wiser.
'Some place in Normandy - ?"Briouze", Orne; ?"Le Brus", Calvados; not, apparently "Brix", Manche; the first is ?"muddy" O[ld] F[rench] from Gaulish, the second ?"heath" Gaulish or ??"maple" OF.'
'Some place in Normandy - ?"Briouze", Orne; ?"Le Brus", Calvados; not, apparently "Brix", Manche; the first is ?"muddy" O[ld] F[rench] from Gaulish, the second ?"heath" Gaulish or ??"maple" OF.'
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