Branscomb Family History
- Branscomb Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Branscombe in Devon, which is named from the Celtic personal name Branoc + Old English cumb ‘valley’. The usual English spelling is Branscombe, as in the place name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,680 Historical Documents with Branscomb on Ancestry
- 7,655 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,508 Census and Voter Lists
- 700 Military Records
- 355 Immigration Records
- 19,462 Member Trees
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Number of Branscomb families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Branscomb families
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1 1 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Branscomb census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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