Last name: BROUGHTON
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BROUGHTON : This last name is indexed 99,345 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BROUGHTON : English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts of England called Broughton. The first element is variously Old English brōc ‘brook’ burg ‘fortress’ or beorg ‘hill mound’; the second is in all cases Old English tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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