Last name: BROOME
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BROOME : This last name is indexed 26,885 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BROOME : English: habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome from Old English brōm ‘broom gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire County Durham Norfolk Shropshire Suffolk Worcestershire and elsewhere.
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