Last name: BRAITHWAITE
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BRAITHWAITE : This last name is indexed 47,571 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRAITHWAITE : English (northern): habitational name from any of the places in Cumbria and Yorkshire named Braithwaite from Old Norse breithr ‘broad’ + thveit ‘clearing’.
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