Last name: BREWSTER
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BREWSTER : This last name is indexed 189,556 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BREWSTER : English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale from Middle English brewestere browestere ‘(female) brewer’ (from Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Brewer is the usual term in southern England while Brewster is mainly midland northern and Scottish.
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