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Brush
Variants: Brushe
Current frequencies: GB 266, Ireland 118
GB frequency 1881: 268
Main GB location 1881: Worcestershire and Herefordshire; Surrey and Middlesex
Main Irish location 1847–64: Tyrone; Down
English: nickname for a brush maker, from Middle English brush (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Early bearers:
Alice Brusch, 1327, John Brusche, Robert Brusshe, 1524 in Subsidy Rolls (Suffolk);
Anthony Brush, 1551 in IGI (Painswick, Gloucestershire);
Ric Brushe, 1571 in IGI (Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire);
Jone Brush, 1610 in IGI (Reading, Berkshire);
Richard Brush, 1665 in York Freeman’s Register.
Brushe
GB frequency 1881: 0
English: see Brush.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, Oxford University Press, 2016
Every entry gives the frequency of that spelling of the name in the censuses of Great Britain in 1881 and 2011. For Ireland, equivalent frequency data is also given, insofar as it was available at the time of compilation.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. They are of the most interest in cultures where surnames are passed on from father to son like the Y-Chromosome. This project is for males taking a Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test. Thus, the individual who tests must be a male who wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111 test and who has one of the surnames listed for the project. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA. Females who would like to check their father's direct paternal line can have a male relative with his surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNAPlus test or the mtFullSequence test and participate in an mtDNA project. Both men and women may take our autosomal Family Finder test to discover recent relationships across all family lines.
Surnames In This Project
Brush, Brushe