A2Z Blogging Challenge - B

SURNAMES ON MY FAMILY TREE BEGINNING WITH B

The following surnames on my family tree are those of both direct ancestors and their families. 

• Bailey - England
• Baillee - Brechin, Scotland
• Bainbridge - Lincolnshire, England
• Barclay 
• Barks
• Barrif - Lincolnshire, England

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• Bartley
• Bassett
• Bassler - Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany
• Bauer - Strumpelkamp, Minden-Lubbecke, Nordern Westfalen, Germany
• Baverstock
• Baxter 
• Beecham - Nottinghamshire, England
• Beedle - Auckland, New Zealand
• Belcke - Reutlingen, Baden- Wurttemberg, Germany

Reutlingen Railway Station Creative Commons Licence

• Bentlion
• Bentz - Germany
• Berli - germany
• Berriff - Nottinghamshire, England
• Berry - Nottinghamshire, England
• Beuttner - Germany
• Bewglas - Louth, Ireland
• Bilehrin - Germany
• Bilger - Germany
• Binder - Germany
• Birch
• Bird - Sydney, Australia
• Birkett
• Bishop
• Blackader - Quebec, Canada
• Balckman - Qld, Australia
• Blair  Houston and Killellan, Scotland

Houston and Killellan, Scotland. Image Wikimedia, Creative Commons Licence

• Blane - Ireland
• Boller - Ottenbach, Switzerland
• Bonnar/Bonner - Ireland, Glasgow, Scotland
• Bonser - Nottinghamshire, England
• Booth - County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Bosshardt/ Bosshard - Bern, Switzerland
• Bouden - Ireland
• Bragg - Qld, Australia
• Bramley - Nottinghamshire, England
• Brechtin - Germany
• Bremner - Brechin, Scotland

Brechin, Scotland, Wikimedia, Creative Commons Licence

• Brigham - Auckland, New Zealand
• Broome - Canada
• Brown - Scotland
• Brown - Essex
• Brown - Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• Browne - London, England
• Brunner - Baden - Wurttmeberg, Germany
• Bryant - Surry, England
• Buckley
• Beuttiker - Heimiswil, Bern, Switzerland

Heimiswil, Switzerland, Wikimedia, Creative Commons Licence

• Bugg - Nottinghamshire
• Burke - Scotland
• Burkhard - Gruenen, Switzerland
• Burkill
• Burkinshaw
• Burn - Scotland
• Burns - Australia
• Burr - Konnigsbronn, Baden  Wurttemberg, Germany
• Busby 
• Bushill
• Butler - Kent, England
• Bassler - Germany
• Boepple - Germany

BERRIFF, BARRIFF AND BERRY

Deborah BERRIFF born in October 1755 in Grantham Lincolnshire, [1] married a joiner named William BERRY on 7 October 1781 at Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire [2]. William and Deborah Berry were my fifth great grandparents. 

From the UK Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices 1538-1893, I know that Deborah's father James Berriff(born in Grantam, Lincolnshire1732) was a cooper, or a barrel maker [3]. I have found the name spelled as Barriff along with Berriff among my Lincolnshire families.

A 'Cooper' or Barrel Maker, Wikimedia, Creative Commons Licence

BERRIFF

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland gives the following origin of the surname Berriff - a relationship name from the Old English female personal name 'Beorhtgifu' (beorht 'fair' and gifu 'gift')[4]

BERRY 

According to the Surname Database the name Berry is an ancient English surname of topographic or locational origin. It derives either from the pre 7th century 'byrig', meaning 'a fortified place' or the later 'beri' or 'buri' denoting a fortified manor house.

James Berriff and his apprentice Henry Kettles 1755 [3]

FOOTNOTES

1.Baptism of Deborah Berriff, 23 October 1755, Grantham. Lincolnshire, England Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com.

2.Marriage of William Berry and Deborah Berriff, 7 October 1781, Newark Upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Records, Ancestry.com.

3. UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 24 November 1755, Master's Name, James Berriff, Apprentice, Henry Kettles, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Ancestry.com.

4. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, Berriff, p. 212.