Brechenridge Family History
Brechenridge Name Meaning
Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire): from Middle English braken ‘bracken, fern’ + rigge ‘ridge’ (Old Norse brakni + hryggr). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived ‘(by the) bracken-covered ridge’, or a habitational name from Brackenridge in Lanarkshire, or possibly from any of various minor places so named in Cumberland and North Yorkshire.
History: Alexander Breckenridge emigrated from northern Ireland to VA c. 1738. He had many prominent descendants, most of whom spelled the name Breckinridge.
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