Marc, The name might have been changed from Bradlaugh in 1600 Virginia to Breedlove and stayed that way according to Martha Kahn (MNBKahn@aol.com). Source Breedlove e-mail list on Prodigy 10/14/97. In that case, they must have come from Britain. I have also read, in Ellen Byrne's notes or book (I think), that it could be a German name meaning 'hunter of wolves." In that case, they came over at some point from Germany. I think we need a linguist. :-) Carole C. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marc Breedlove <breedsm@socrates.berkeley.edu> To: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 1:10 PM Subject: [BREEDLOVE-L] before Charles B of VA > Dear Breedlove list members, > > A subject I haven't seen come up here since I joined this list (only a few > months ago) is where Charles Breedlove b1688 in VA came from. I had > assumed from the UK, but doing a web search of telephone numbers, at > several sites, including: > http://www.lookupuk.com/phone.html > > turned up absolutely no Breedloves in the UK at all. Maybe they all have > unlisted numbers, or maybe they died out there lately... > > But a search of the 1851 census in England at: > http://rontay.digiweb.com/surnames/Default.htm > > similarly brought up no Breedloves (nor Breadloves, but there were several > Breed's). So maybe they died out in Eng before 1851, or maybe Chas > Breedlove didn't come from England. > > So is there another country Chas Breedlove might have come from to VA? > What do we know? > > Thanks, > Marc Breedlove > > ---------------------------- > Marc Breedlove > breedsm@socrates.berkeley.edu > Psychology Department > 3210 Tolman Hall > UC Berkeley > Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 > (510) 642-8615 > fax 642-5293 > lab 642-2299 >