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Branch: Origin, Geographical Distribution
MacGillean. From a Highland chieftain of the name of Gillean, who was the progenitor of this family. This Gillean was a celebrated warrior, and was called Gillean-ni-Tuoidh, from his ordinary weapon, a battle-ax, which in the Gaelic is Twidh, which his descendants wear to this day in their crest, betwixt a laurel and a cypress branch. The posterity of this Gillean were therefore called Mac Gillean, in all ancient documents, and now of modern date McLeans. Magh Leamhna in the County of Antrim, the estate of the McLeans or Macklins.
Branch Surname Origin
Branch: Place of Origin :  London (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom) |  Berkshire (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Somerset (United Kingdom) |  Suffolk (United Kingdom)
Branch: Online Family Trees
BRANCH Angleterre (England, United Kingdom) 1991 - 1991
BRANCH Clutton (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1911 - 1911
BRANCH Torbay (Devon, England, United Kingdom) 2000 - 2000
BRANCH England (England, United Kingdom) 1877 - 1904
BRANCH England (England, United Kingdom) 1967 - 1967
BRANCH Leigh (Surrey, England, United Kingdom) 1834 - 1834
BRANCH Charlwood (Surrey, England, United Kingdom) 1808 - 1808
BRANCH England (England, United Kingdom) 1602 - 1602
BRANCH Harefield, Middlesex (London, England, United Kingdom) 1839 - 1839
BRANCH London (London, England, United Kingdom) 1946 - 1946

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Branch: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Branch is related to the following famous family trees :
        JEFFERSON Thomas (1743 - 1826)
Branch: Books that contain this surname
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BRANCHSome colonial mansions and those who lived in them, with genealogies of the various families mentioned
Author: Glenn, Thomas Allen, 1864- - Published in 1900
... He married Mary, daughter of William Branch, and died in the year 1697, leaving the following children: Captain Thomas Jefferson, ...		 BRANCHBench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Volume 1)
Author: Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907 - Published in 1895
... Olympia, Wash. He married Emma Cecilia Branch, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hosmer) Aldrich, of Groton, Mass. ' · ...
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