Brau Family History
- Brau Name Meaning
- South German (Bräu): from a primitive form of the agent noun for a brewer, Middle High German briuwe. North German: from Middle Low German bruw(e) denoting ‘a set quantity brewed at once’. Catalan and southern French: nickname from brau ‘wild’, from Latin barbarus ‘barbarian’, ‘ruffian’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,444 Historical Documents with Brau on Ancestry
- 16,319 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,874 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,435 Military Records
- 1,743 Immigration Records
- 5,073 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brau families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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