Släkthistoria för Brainwood
Brainwood Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English brainwod ‘brain-mad furious’. Compare Brain (1). In the 16th and 17th centuries the name was sometimes altered to Branward Branard and Braynard and may have been confused with Branard as a metathesized variant of Barnard. Compare Margaret Bernard 1662 John Barnard 1680 Sarah Branard 1693 in IGI (Waltham Abbey Essex).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
